Lancashire Records Office.

[holmes]

Dear Dottie

Re: Elizabeth Holmes b abt 1827 Blackburn.

You kindly replied to my message in Febrauary and asked me to get back to you in 3 weeks if I still required your help.

 I am afraid I have no further information since my previous message below.  If I could find the marriage registration to William Davis or her birth registration it would help.

All their children were born in Birmingham, the eldest born 1849.

The 1851, 1871 census records show her birthplace as Blackburn Lancs.

Thank you again.

I go to the Lancashire Records Office quite often normally Wednesdays.If anybody wants a Look-Up please  tell me exactly what you want and I will see what I can do.

Dear Dottie

Hoping you are still able to do look ups.  Very kind. 

I am trying to find details of Birth for my great great Grandmother, Elizabeth Holmes (or could be Holme or Holmer) born abt 1827 in Blackburn. 

Also her marriage to William Davis.  This could have been In Blackburn area or Birmingham.  I am trawling through GRO indexes and found no marriage to date. 

Is it possible to find her on 1841 census in Blackburn, she would have been 14.

On 1851 1871 census she was living in Aston Birmingham with husband William Davis (a mathematical Instrument maker and journeyman) and their family.  William and their children were all born in Birmingham.  The birth certificate for their son Samuel Davis provided her maiden name.  Their eldest child on 1851 census was Eliza, born in 1849.

Thank you

[dotty]

Hi Kena
Married by banns on the 25th October 1808 at Oldham St Mary's --John Steeple of Chadderton and Sarah Pendleton of Tong? Hope this is the one you wanted.

Dotty

[kena]

Thanks very much Dotty, that's made me so happy!

Anna

[dotty]

I went to the Records Office yesterday before I got your posting ,so it will be next week now.Looking at the info  I have found a marriage in Blackburn for the June qtr 1949 for a William Davis -the name showing with it is a Betty Wilson    - this couldn't be   Elizabeth Holme 's second marriage to William could it?


Dotty

[adamson342]

Dear Dotty,

Thank you so much for helping us all! I was wondering if you had had any luck finding the details of the BLOW marriage? They have been a bit elusive so i was wondering if you had had trouble finding them...?

Thanks again for your help,
Sam

Daniel BLOW & Nancy FRANCIS
08 AUG 1805   Saint Mary, Lancaster, Lancashire, England

[dotty]

Adamson
 Sorry ,I think I have overlooked this one.I will look next week when I go again.

Dotty

[adamson342]

That would be great - thank you! I'm particularly interested to see the profession of the groom (Daniel).

Many thanks again,
Sam

[dotty]

I can't believe when I got home I had lost or left my notepad at the Record Office .However the only additonal info other than  they were of that Parish is that his occupation was a compositon which I am sure should have been compositor.

Dotty

[adamson342]

Dotty - That's great thanks! Compositor seems to fit.

Sam