help request

[daveey]

I have been researching my ancesrtry when I can for over a year and have traced over 250 however I have come to a complete stanstill with regard to my Grandfather

HERBERT WOOD b 1883 Aston Under Line  Lancashire
Married in 1907 to NANCY NORBURN b 1883 Standish Lancashire

Herbert was a Miner Huywer (unsure what this is) and died at the age of 47 leaving Nancy to bring up her six children before  she died in 1937 at the age of 54

We believe that HERBERTS mother was MARY WOOD born in Ireland whith no known father although there is a story about the Black and Tans

Any help with this would be fantastic

Regards
Daveey

[Viktoria]

Ashton Under line, if you leave the h out it may bring up something else. Standish is an area near Bury,. The enumerator has  probably  mis-spelled HEWER  this means he literally hewed coal from the coalface. Hope this helps a bit . Viktoria

[Sisterjane]

Hi Davvey

I can see them in 1891 cencus if you havent already got the details I will gladly post them up for you

Jane 

[daveey]

Thanks for your help, Yes I have them in the 1891 census living at Wyre Street however I cannot find anything else about them
Any suggestions please

[dotty]

There is also a Standish five miles north of Wigan.

Dotty

[heywood]

Hi Daveey,
I'm just cross referencing this thread with the other one:

http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=369350.msg2446923#msg2446923

You have done very well up to now collecting all your ancestors - this one is tricky with the name Wood.

Just to say that the Black and Tans were much later than Herbert's birth - 1920s. Mary perhaps just came to live in England as a result of the poverty in Ireland after the famine etc.

I just looked Nancy Norburn up in 1901 and got a bit excited when I saw a couple of people called Wood with them  However, looking further her mother was Ellen Wood I think and Alice and Thomas Wood are Ellen's mother and brother 

I have posted re Herbert on the other thread too.

Dotty is right re Standish  - I don't think there is one near Bury (there is a Stand).

[Viktoria]

Sorry, I "stand "corrected if you will excuse the pun--it is Stand near Bury and Standish near Wigan. Hope this did not cause you any extra work. Viktoria

[heywood]

 

I'm sure it didn't Viktoria. It took me a while to realise that you perhaps meant Stand.
I think I've gone to town a bit on this but hope that Daveey understands - I suppose it all depends on what info he has re Herbert.

goodnight
heywood 

[daveey]

Thanks for all your help sadly I have no more info ( see my Model Lodging house responce)
However I am organizing a "cousins meeting" next month so hopefully I can get little more info then from the clan
thanks again for all your help
Daveey