Olaff Ferdinand Lindell

[tenspar]

Hi

Does anyone have any info about the above man ? He married my gt gt grandmother Margaret Dixon in Sunderland in 1881 when she would be about 38 yrs.  They were still living in Sunderland in 1901. I am interested in whether they had any children. She was previously married to Robert Dixon my gt gt grandfather.

Many thanks

Mary

[Tati]

Hi Mary,

I don't know if this is any help but there aren't any children showing on the 1891 census (only a visitor Alice Foster? age 20 b. Durham Haswell)

Tanja 

[tenspar]

Hi again Tanja

As you can see I found out a bit more about our Margaret Noble cum Dixon. Am feeling really pleased with myself 'cos I thought she had died young

Margaret's half sister Hannah Noble was living with an Aunt and Uncle Jameson in Haswell Durham in 1851 - wonder if there's a connection ?

Oh goody something else to explore 

Mary

[Tati]

Oh, is she our Margaret Noble? 

[tenspar]

Oh yes !

What a find I think

It means that after Robert Dixon died in 1872 she stayed in the area and eventually married Olaf.

Our family always believed that her son Robert Jnr was orphaned and taken in by William and Elizabeth Richardson. Robert Jnr turns up in 1891 living with William and Elizabeth in Whitby ( they were known to the family and he was born in their house in 1873 a month after his father was killed ).

She also had a daughter Elizabeth Jane born 1870 Sunderland. Can't trace her until her marriage in 1888 to Thomas Bowman in Sunderland.

Mary

[Canada03]

Hi Tenspar

The Hannah Noble you refer to as the half-sister is my 2xggrandmother.  She was the 6th of 7 children born to John Noble (b 1800 Whitby) and Hannah Gatenby (b 1806).  Her dad died in 1839, and her mom is shown as a publican in the 1841 census, with her youngest children and a brother perhaps in tow.  I have struggled to find Hannah senior after this, so was pleased to see your notes on her subsequent remarriages.

Young Hannah is with relatives in 1851.  She married William Davison in 1860 and had three daughters by the time her husband was killed underground at Haswell Colliery in 1865.

She remarried a widowed coal miner later - last name Foster (I note one of your postings referred to an Alice Foster) - and went on to have a few more children and raise their blended family.  She was still alive in 1901 (census).

Her first born, Mary Ann Davison married Michael Ward in Durham, and they had 6 children (one of whom was my grandmother Hannah Ward) before she died in 1903 of pthisis.

regards
Sharon