Manchester police force.

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Hi Jean

Sorry I never got back to tell you about the service record I got.  It was a busy day yesterday.

Thank you for the feedback.  You look as if you've been followind me very closely!

My  gggrandfather must hve arrived after yours and retired and died while yours was still in office!  So they did coincide.

I meant to add, but I forgot in yesterday's hurry that of course Lancashire Record Office hold a lot of service records,  Rochdale Local Studies might still have other information photographs of what was going on in Rochdale.

They may also know where else to look for service records and if there are any more local records.

I think an email is a good odea.  I'll pm you first so we don't double up unless we want to.

They're lovely people and they gave me loads of help before the days of major online activity.  I rang her when I first got Internet - dial up pay per view and theirs was one of the first sites I saw in it's infancy with about one page but with a telephone number!  We had many of their books too.

I'll be in touch

Best wishes

Emms

[edredwel]

Like others I'm interested in a policeman named Joseph Stead, as he is on a marriage record dated 1859.  The marriage took place in Ireland but I believe that he only went over to witness the marriage of his son, who was in the army at the time and who (presumably) was marrying an Irish girl name Agnes.  Any help would be welcome.

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Hi Jean and Ededwel

Fancy getting a reply after all this time!  Lovely to hear from you   I’m not related to the Stead brothers but my gggrandfather Charles Stickley Ingram a police officer in Rochdale has kept me puzzling.

He used both or either surnames as did others in the family.

I hope you are all well. Like most of us I’ve had a busy few years and a lot less time to play on family history,  Also progress with Harlesden’s is slow anyway.

Also I’ve now moved back to our family home in ZSouthport not a million miles from Chorley and Tochdale etc but not managed even to get to Rochdale or Salford!

Even so I wonder if any of Charless stories might suggest any patallel clues for you?

Charles was born in Dorset and Ihave his army record discharged in the castle in Carlisle. I lived there for a while but strugglespd. I did find a couple of burials for Stickley buried in the cemetery. Turned out he’d been married briefly and his wife had died there

Then married my gggrandmother Margaret Muilville etc

Really struggled for a wife but some great researchers found him andMargaretunder variations in the GRO registers. After I

moved away in the RC chapel of the time in Carlisle!  She was Irish and it got me thinking Had he also been in Ireland. I’d really struggled with the early marriage but found the marriage in an online index for one of the large sites  Notlong before her death

I discovered Charles had been a police officer in a few Lancashire towns including Wiganand Burnley. I found that record in PrestonwhereI used to meet my auntie and research and natter!  It didn’t mention allthe towns

Most of the extra information came from the great website Lancashire Online Parish clerk. Amazing,  loads of transcribed mds.

Also early on Ifound a few intriguing entries in the Newspapersonline.

Since then many have been added  Last weekend whenFind my past was free for Remembrance Sunday I found a lot and screen shotted them.

Some good interesting snippets about his life at the time as a Bobby both his work and the places he was working. I also found his marriage toMargaret

Census in Carlisle  and certificates gave me the parents names.

One more snippet. I lost my information from police and army records in the move but it’s all online if I didn’t have it

Lancashire Lantern from the archives ?   Army record on forces records. Find my past.?

Sorry. Mostly from memory 

I’ll look at my copies and see if your Stead’s appear!

Keep well all

Emms  :)is