Roman catholic and nonconformist look up please - Liverpool

[Sarah Lou]

Hi everyone

My 3 x gt grandfather - Richard Landy - was a merchant seaman in London.

After finding his seaman's records - I mananged to find his date and place of birth as 8-3-1810 - Liverpool.

Lucky you - I hear you shout - however, not the case.  As I live in Essex, I paid for the records office to try and trace him (thinking uncommon name and got his birth date so should be pretty easy!) - very wrong of me!!

The only Richard Landy who was baptised is the one on the IGI in 1819 making him 9 when he was baptised.  This could well be him, but as the surname is of Irish descent - I am wondering if he was catholic or could be nonconformist.

If anyone has these records or would do a look up for me - I really would appreciate it.

Many thanks and Merry Christmas

Sarah

[ShaunJ]

Sarah,

I just checked in Gore's Liverpool Directories for 1796 and 1814 - no Landey or Landy listed there. 

You might find these sites useful:

http://www.liverpool-genealogy.org.uk/home.htm
http://www.geocities.com/liverpoolregisters/index.html

Is your Richard Landy the one listed in the 1841 census as Landey, married to Sophia?

[Sarah Lou]

Hi retiring type - thank you for your message and thank you for checking the Liverpool directories for me.

Yes, my Richard Landy is the one married to Sophia (I'm stuck on both of them actually!)

I'm particularly gutted that I can't find Richard - as I have his merchant navy record - I know that he was 5ft 6 1/2, had blue eyes, auburn hair, fresh complexion and a scar on upper lip.  I know it's always frustrating when we get stuck (I'm stuck on quite a few ancestors) but I feel closer to him somehow, as I've got an idea as to what he looks like - if that makes sense!!

Sarah 

[ShaunJ]

Sarah,

ParishRegister.com has some baptisms for Landy children  George John Gannon Landy, Janet Sophia Landy, and Richard Henry Landy, at All Saints Poplar http://www.parishregister.com/searchpage.html

[Daisypetal]

Hi,

Do you already have the marriage? Pallots Marriage Index has,

Sophia GANNON
Richd LANDY
1835 Poplar

The image shows her as Sophia Esther and him as Richd Hy.

Regards
Daisy

[dm1973]

Hi everyone

My 3 x gt grandfather - Richard Landy - was a merchant seaman in London.

After finding his seaman's records - I mananged to find his date and place of birth as 8-3-1810 - Liverpool.

Lucky you - I hear you shout - however, not the case.  As I live in Essex, I paid for the records office to try and trace him (thinking uncommon name and got his birth date so should be pretty easy!) - very wrong of me!!

The only Richard Landy who was baptised is the one on the IGI in 1819 making him 9 when he was baptised.  This could well be him, but as the surname is of Irish descent - I am wondering if he was catholic or could be nonconformist.

If anyone has these records or would do a look up for me - I really would appreciate it.

Many thanks and Merry Christmas

Sarah

Hi Sarah,
I am helping a friend of mine hunt up her relatives, and I suspect your Richard might be at the end of the chain for me too I am tracing from Janette Landy (m Arthur Nelson 1897) whose father is Robert Landy according to the 1881 census and about 34yo.

However, the only Robert Landy that I have been able to find in the years around 1847 is Robert Henry Deuch Landy in 1844. In the census his birthplace is given as Blackwall, and the freebmd record says Stepney, so I am leaning strongly toward this being the right fellow. And in an LDS record, Robert's parents are listed as Richard and Sophia Ester.

Does this sound like a possibility? Common family names and crowded areas of London are making the process a labourious one, so any links I can find to existing research is astoundingly helpful

Damien

[nieceyr]

Hi retiring type - thank you for your message and thank you for checking the Liverpool directories for me.

Yes, my Richard Landy is the one married to Sophia (I'm stuck on both of them actually!)

I'm particularly gutted that I can't find Richard - as I have his merchant navy record - I know that he was 5ft 6 1/2, had blue eyes, auburn hair, fresh complexion and a scar on upper lip.  I know it's always frustrating when we get stuck (I'm stuck on quite a few ancestors) but I feel closer to him somehow, as I've got an idea as to what he looks like - if that makes sense!!

Sarah 

Hi Sarah

I am also a descendant of Richard Henry Landy he was my Gt Gt Grandfather.  His son William Chant Landy was my Gt Grandfather.  I probably can't fill you in with much info but I know that he married Sophia Esther Landy in Poplar London 1835.  I have details of 5 children : William Chant Landy born 6.3.1849 George Landy born 4.7.1841 Henry William Landy born 20.3.1836 , Janet Sophia Landy born 7.10.1846 and Richard Landy born 30.4.1838 - All in Poplar.   On the 1841 census
Richard ( Landey ) as it is spelt is shown to be living with Sophia and son Richard but his place of birth is shown as Poplar and not Liverpool. I also know that he was a Mariner. I have details showing that Richard and Sophie married in Poplar in 1835.  I have also looked into the birth of Sophia and have found a Sophia Gannon on the Pallots Bap Index in 1797  at St Anne Soho. If this is our Sophia; there is a slight discrepancy with the age but it shows her as a twin to Thomas Gannon and their parents are Thomas and Elizabeth Gannon and there is also a sister Mary Ann Gannon who was born in 1786.

Where abouts do you get copies of the Merchant Navy Records ?

Best wishes
Denise

[rabbloke]

Hi, Janette landy was my grandmother. She married Arthur Nelson and they had ten children of whom my mother was the youngest, lavinia Edna Nelson. I would appreciate any details you have of this family. Trying to piece it together and getting quite absorbed. Thanks, ray brown