Margaret Ann Blackett - Wolsingham

[rubyruby]

Trying again, Margaret A Blackett b.1867 wolsingham Durham, married Isaac Walker in 1885 Jan 31st. Wolsingham Durham. On cert. her father is down as Hugh Marshall Blackett spade manufacturer.  He turns up again with 2 daug. & his mother Frances, the lodger & son in1861, then 1871 with more children, but Margaret does not appear with him. I am sure it is the right man as is a Forgeman employing 2 men.  Margaret appears in 1881 with brother & sisters & I'm trying to name her mother.

[Tati]

Hi Rubyruby,

Have you found a birth for her (with the surname Blackett)? Otherwise she could well be the lodger's daughter Ann Wheatley, don't you think?

[Tati]

... the more so as the young John Wheatley is shown as Hugh's natural son in 1861! (which I think is incredibly lucky - you don't often get so detailed information on census!)

[Tati]

OK, just seen the 1881 as well - did you notice that the now Blackett siblings are the same people that were called Wheatley in 1871?

So my theory is that Hugh Blackett never married Elizabeth Wheatley, maybe because he was already married*, but was the father of all her children

 

*The 1851 census shows him married to a Mary Ann, age 29, b. Sunderland

[Tati]

Just because you're not reacting and I really have the feeling that I've solved it, I'll list the census details all in a row here - it's easier to follow when it's all black on white 

1881 census
RG11/4939 30 5
Wolsingham, Durham
John Blackett, head, unm, 22, Forgeman Iron, b. Durham Durham City
Emily Blackett, sister, 16, b. Wolsingham
Margt A Blackett, sister, 14, nurse, b. do.
Sarah J Blackett, sister, 12, scholar, b. do.
John M Blackett, nephew, 1, b. do.

1871
RG10/4952 42 27
Wolsingham, Durham
Walk Mill Green
Hugh M Blackett, head, mar, 47, Iron Forgeman - Manufacturer of spades and shovels empl. 4 men & 4 boys, b. Wolsingham
Esther Emmerson, serv, 19, b. Blk Dean St Johns Chapel
/
Elizabeth Wheatley, lodger, unm, (age unreadable), b. Ebchester
John Wheatley, son, 12, scholar, b. Wolsingham
Harriet Wheatley, dau, 7, scholar, b. do. (possibly this H Blackett in 1881: http://www.rootschat.com/links/04ok/
Emily Wheatley, dau, 6, scholar, b. do.
Ann Wheatley, dau, 5, scholar, b. do.
Isabel Wheatley, dau, 4, scholar, b. do. (also calls herself Blackett in 1881 http://www.rootschat.com/links/04ol/)
Sarah J Wheatley, dau, 2, b. do.

1861
RG9/3727 25 3 & 4
Wolsingham, Durham
Walk Mill Green
Hugh M Blackett, head, 38, Forgeman employing 2 men and 1 boy, b. Wolsingham
Frances M, dau, 17, scholar, b. Bp Wearmouth
Elizabeth W, dau, 15, b. Yorkshire Middlesbrough
John Wheatley, natural son, 2, b. Durham Durham
Frances Blackett, mother, wid, 81, b. North Bedburn
Elizabeth Wheatley, serv, unm, 26, House servant, b. Ebchester

 

[Tati]

Just checking BMD and it seems that all the Wheatley girls married using the surname Blackett:

Isabella Blackett Jun 1888 Weardale, spouse Alfred Blackett(!)

Harriet Blackett, Jun 1888 Newcastle 10b 236, spouse Robert Little

Emily Blackett, Sep 1881 Weardale, spouse Thomas Dodd Humble

Sarah Jane Blackett, Dec 1884 Weardale, spouse Thomas Jackson 

 

[rubyruby]

well done tati, and thanks,  so you think Margaret Ann was just Ann wheatley before.  I had it written down but did not connect the names.   I will start to look for her birth  now as Ann Wheatley
thank again.
  rubyruby

[rubyruby]

thanks for help tati, have now got elizabeth's birth & her brother & sister's birthays mother & father, mothers maiden name.  Now stuck on finding their birth dates. still working my way thr parish records of lanchester abt 1815 for both of them 
                          so that is John wheatley abt 1815 b. lanchester
                        & suzannah Maria wheatley ( think Dixon) or just Maria
                              b. abt. 1815 also Lanchester
                                    if anyone can help.    Thanks

[Tati]

Sorry, I can't help with parish records but I don't think Maria was from Durham - 1841 says she was not born in county and in 1851 her birth place is Wall Northumberland