Completed Woolnough, Hunter, Nixon, Plews, Nelson & Harland

[donfay11]

My primary line is the Woolnough family - the other names are of people who married into the family in my grandfather's generation.  I believe that his sister-in-law is still living in Hartlepool, but have never received a response to my efforts to contact her.

Before his generation the family had been in Suffolk for at least 4 generations.

As I've said before - any information will be gleefully accepted!

Donny [Dianne]

[Kate]

Hi Donny,

Yours is such an unusual name. I wonder if you know a friend of mine who was called Barbara Woolnough. She moved to Croydon where I lived in 1960 (!) and then to Maidstone in Kent about 1963. She was the eldest of about 4 or 5 and her father worked for Sainsbury's. I have lost touch since then but have her 1960s address,

Kate.

[donfay11]

Hi, Kate.

I'm afraid that the only Barbara Woolnough I *know* of married into the family.  Barbara Nixon married Alfred Alexander Woolnough, who was born in Hartlepool in 1902.  I only know of two children, Ramona and Alfred.  It's entirely possible that they may have had a daughter named Barbara but if so, I have no evidence of her existence.

There's also the possibility that Alfred had a daughter I don't know about with his second wife, [Mrs?] Mary P Plews.  I only have two children from that marriage, Mary and Joseph.

Getting totally off the subject of a possible Barbara lurking in the wings, I believe that Mary Plews had a son from a previous marriage - Paul.  He changed his surname, and the last we heard of him was when my grandfather Nelson Woolnough died - Mum called him in Perth, Australia, to let him know.

BTW, that's where I am - Australia, that is - although I'm on the other side of the continent, in Brisbane.  My grandfather came here before WW2, following his Aunt Susannah Woolnough - who had married a Lillistone from Stowmarket.

It always amazes me that we can condense so many decades of family history to such a small number of words!


Donny [Dianne]

"Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away."

[hpool]

go to: www.tees valley-indexes.co.uk

this will list all woolnough bmd's in hartlepool.

baptisms at st hilda's church in hartlepool
horatio nelson woolnough 20 feb 1895
laura                      ::          29 nov 1896

parents william and annie.

[hpool]

susanna woolnough:
was born 18 sep 1899 and was baptised at st paul's church in what was WEST hartlepool on 05 oct 1899.
parents are william frederick and annie mary.
address given is 31 stephen street in what was west hartlepool. father was a mariner.
(the house still stands).

[hpool]

william married in hartlepool 1888.
first child - annie m born in hartlepool 1889.
no church records available - checking local newspaper to see if they were rich enough to put announcements in.

[hpool]

1891 census index of woolnough residing in the ancient borough of hartlepool:
                     birthplace
annie       2   hartlepool
annie m  23  hartlepool
william    26  woodbridge in suffolk

they married j - s 1888 nothing in paper
annie born    a - j 1889 nothing in paper

what other info on (west) hartlepool do you require?
if hunter is one then there were "hundreds" here in c19th!

[hpool]

alfred alexander
born 20 aug 1902
bapt 07 sep 1902 at st paul's church
address 31 stephen street in west hartlepool

[donfay11]

First - many, many thanks for this information.  Some of it I had [names etc.] but most of it was new - like specific dates rather than just years.  And I didn't have the 'where' of any of it.  I really appreciate the effort you went to, to get all of that for me!

I've been away for a while - my grandmother Eileen Woolnough passed away, and we've been settling things up.  I'm so glad to be back into the gene.

It interests me that you found the same address for Susannah's and Alfred Alexander's baptisms.  They were cousins - and I'm wondering about that address!  Both their father's were born in Stowmarket, Suffolk.

Alfred Alexander's brother [and my grandfather] Nelson George Woolnough was born at Low Croft House, Shadforth, Durham, 5 years later.

Do you have a specific interest in the name, or are you one of those kind souls who just jumps in and helps?  Whichever you are, you're wonderful!  Thanks again.


Donny [Dianne]