Items new to me:
Joseph Osbaldeston, son of Josiah and Mary Anne.
Thanks, Susan, for posting the full details of his baptism. Neither Joseph, b. 1835, nor his brother, Henry William, b. 1828, appear in the 1841 census but I haven’t found their burials. Sister Bridget is on that census but not on the 1851. However, she may have married, possibly in Birmingham, before 1851.
The 1st quarter 1853 birth of Ann Maria Turner. Because both she and Julian Alexander Turner were baptised on the same day (21 Jan 1855), I’d assumed they were twins. I’d ordered Julian’s birth certificate (he was born on 12 Dec 1854) and wondered why I didn’t see one for Ann Maria. Duh, now I know.
The 1862 marriage of Mary Ann Turner and James Hubbard.
It hadn’t occurred to me that the James and Mary Ann Hubbard who were witnesses to the marriage of Edwin Turner Osbaldeston and Ann Pratt could be related to the groom. This is a prime example of why it pays to have fresh eyes and brain cells look at things.
The 16 May 1880 marriage of ETO and Alice Agnes Moore.
Because we have their marriage certificate among our family history material I hadn’t bothered to look for their marriage on the Italian genweb site. However our certificate is dated 16 March. ETO mentioned that they were married by well-known preacher Henry Ward Beecher. The certificate bears Beecher’s signature. But was Beecher really in Brooklyn on 16 March? A search of the New York Times index puts him in Ohio on that date. I’ll order the certificate and compare it with the one we have. It’s not impossible that ETO altered it to make it closer to the date of conception.
The newspaper article “And So They Were Married,” The Sun (New York), Tuesday, 14 Feb 1888
I’ve searched
http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/ in the past but hadn’t come across this gem.
The newspaper article “Now They Know All About Massage,” New York Daily Tribune, Sunday, 22 April 1894, p. 3
This article was on
www.fultonhistory.com, the site that’s provided the greatest number of ETO-related articles. I hadn’t visited the site for a while so it was great to learn that Tom Tryniski has expanded his coverage to a whopping 9 million plus pages.
http://thestar.pagesofthepast.caOn a research visit to the New York Public Library I printed (from microfilm) the article “That Charge Against a Masseur,” Montreal Daily Star, Monday, 23 November 1896, p. 8. It might be worth visiting this site to see if there are any more articles. BTW, ETO and Louise Weiss were arrested in Montreal 3 months after the birth of their daughter Mascot.
Again, I thank your fresh eyes and brain cells for finding the above.
P.S. Despite what the 1851 census says, ETO was born in Cheltenham (on 11 July 1838). He was baptised (as Edwin Turner) at St Mary's Cheltenham on 30 Dec 1838.
