Ceeoh's Scavenger Hunt...Everyone Welcome To Join In

[Ceeoh]

Mary didn't even have Charles's name correct (if it wasn't a clerical error) Charles  Grouth Smith.  Remembering Charles was in Whitby as at the 1861 census, and Mary would fall pregnant with Charles around August 1862 - I don't think she had known him all that long!!

I wish we could access the mine records to see when Charles started work there, but they seem to be "lost".  They were in the British Steel Archive, then taken over by Corus and "supposedly" passed on the Middlesbrough Archive.  I have asked about them (a long time ago) and was advised they were still sorting the mine records out - perhaps it's time I asked again!

Margaret

[heywood]

It could be just a clerical error - she may not have been very literate - she may have had a lisp- it could be accent .. again we have no idea.
As you say, they may have only known each other a short time  but the census was in April 1861 so to August 1862- that's quite some time. She may even have known him before the census- again we don't know- we can't find her!
It would be good if we could eliminate that Mary Smith -Brotton/Skelton from the possible Marys.

[Ceeoh]

The Brotton/Skelton Mary was the one I was banking on when I first started looking c1994! but as there is no supporting evidence for her, baptism parish record or census pre 1871 she seems to have appeared from and vanished into thin air!

Margaret

[stroudie]

Hello ceeoh

Have spent the evening searching, though not found much.

However, take a look at
http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=423423.new#new

A little more scandal, in that it appears that by 1881 Isabella Burnside is giving herself as a widow, while Ambrose is still alive and that she possibly goes on to 'marry' someone else.

The plot thickens!

Julie

[heywood]

Hi,

I've posted on other thread re the marriage of an Ambrose B in 1842. Just wondering who he is. There are a whole host of spouses - one called Mary Smith 

heywood

[Tephra]

It's time for this weeks Scavenger Hunt and here it is.

http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,423828.0.html

Good Luck and Good Hunting

Barbara

As usual, this Hunt will remain open for any further information which may come in.

[heywood]

I don't really want to be posting on two threads re Ambrose but I have done 
Found the two who marry in 1849 in the censuses- Ambrose b Guisb. to Isabella and Ambrose b Aycliffe to Alice.
As I said there is an earlier marriage who may be the second one who remarries Alice. As I said- a host of spouses, one of whom was a Mary Smith. Wondered if by any chance he married her and she had a daughter Mary Smith and ... imagination getting out of hand so am not going to pursue that one.

[Ceeoh]

On behalf of Stroudie and myself, thank you all for the wonderful response in our search for Mary Smith - or whatever her name turns out to be.  Although we haven't actually run her to earth, the suggestions and the data put forward certainly gives us plenty to think about.  Now it's time to collate it all and see just what we have.

Should anyone find anything further on our mystery lady - all suggestions and input will be most appreciated.  And should we be fortunate enough to work out who she actually was we will certainly post it.

Thank you all

Margaret

[heywood]

Thanks ladies- I enjoyed it.