Wereabouts in Yorkshire?

[mezentia]

Can anyone more familiar with Yorkshire place names than me decipher where Mary Foster was born?

David

[dave the tyke]

David,
I'm fairly certain the written words are 'Long Enalsol' but as to the where-a-bouts I havn't a clue. Do you have any clues as to where other family members were born?

[mezentia]

Hi David

That's what I thought, but I can't find anywhere with an even remotley similar name!! The Mary Foster I'm trying to track down didn't appear with the rest of her family on the 1861 census, but is there in 1871. I assume she must have been away elsewhere. She had a daughter in 1861, so I thought she might be with relatives. This Mary has the right birthdate, c1827, but I can't work out why she should be in Lancashire working (?) as a sick nurse.

[winston]

Hi


What was Mary Foster's maiden name?

Have you found her on the earlier census to know what she put then as her place of birth?

What was Mary's daughter called who you say was born in 1861?

Wendy

[mezentia]

Hello Wendy

Mary's maiden name was Mills, and she was born around 1827 in Leeds. She was married to Andrew Foster in 1846 in Leeds. Their children were:

Mary Jane 1847 Leeds
Andrew F 1849 Leeds
Hannah 1851 Leed
Walter 1854 Northallerton
Sarah E(lizabeth?) 1858 Northallerton
Emma 1861 Northallerton
Alice 1863 Bishopton, Ripon
Lilly 1863 Ripon
And the little surprise, Arthur 1868 Ripon


David

[winston]

Hi

thanks  for that  would this then be your Mary Foster with her Mother?

RG9/3662 North Allerton

folio 70

page 7

Mary Mill**  bn circa 1794  Bishop Monkston Head

Mary Foster born circa 1830 Leeds Daughter in Law 
 ( not as we know it today ,meaning Daughter of Mary Mills by Law)

Hannah bn 1851 leeds Grandaughter

sarah bn 1858 North Allerton  """"

Emma bn  1860   ""              ""





Wendy

[mezentia]

Hi Winston

I think you've found where my Mary Foster went to. Certainly fits with the reast of what I have at the moment. Thanks for your help.

However, I also think you've also uncovered another mystery, and that's who is their next-door neighbour, Thomas Scatchard? On the 1851 census, there's a 20 year old rope maker Thomas Scatchard, a "cousin" , living with Andrew and Mary Foster in Leeds, but does cousin mean cousin as we would have it today? Then, in 1861, the next door neighbour of Mary Mills is Jane Scatchard, 71 years old and head of household but unmarried, and living with her is Thomas Scatchard, a nephew, age 31 and a rope maker. But does nephew mean Jane's sibling's son?

Then, in 1891, Mary Foster is living with her son-in-law George Anderson and her daughter Alice in Ripon. Lo and behold, there is a 20 year old Thomas Scatchard as a boarder, not a rope maker this time, but a railway porter. That, methinks, is all a bit too much of a coincidence???

David

[dave the tyke]

I had a thread about relationships recently and I was directed to

www.brainydictionary.com/

It seems that the term niece/nephew can be applied to the child of a whole range of related people.

[kintree]

In the 1851 Census Elizabeth Craddick (Craddock) is recorded as born in "Longhamsel", Yorkshire. Does this take us closer to an interpretation of "Long Emasol"?

Adrian