Ruddock / Burley / Holmes / Lambert

[sarah]

Yeay you did it !!!!!! I knew we would get there Linda, we are all learners at one thing or another.

[Linda2022]

Can't wait to hear from mabeljessie and BumbelleB we have so much to share x

[mabeljessie]

Hi Linda,
I have sent you a personal message which you can reply to.
I have done a lot of work on the tree since I posted on here and had some great help from now friends in the UK.

[lynn]

Hi
Not sure if you already have this information but will add anyway.

Cemetery    Otley Cemetery (Newall With Clifton and Lindley Cemetery)    
Record    Reg 07 (1900-1916)    
Entry    8205    
Event Type    Burial    
Given Name    Emma    
Surname    RUDDOCK    
Event Day    12    
Event Month    6    
Event Year    1906    
District Parish    Leeds    
Place Died (Street)    City Hospital    
Age Years    35    
Birth Year    1871 *    
Grave Type    Unconsecrated    
Grave Section    D    
Grave Number    148    
Register    7    
Page    321    
Page Row    13    



Cemetery    Otley Cemetery (Newall With Clifton and Lindley Cemetery)    
Record    Reg 07 (1900-1916)    
Entry    8238    
Event Type    Burial    
Given Name    Thomas    
Surname    RUDDOCK    
Event Day    23    
Event Month    8    
Event Year    1906    
District Parish    Otley    
Place Died (Street)    Carlton Street    
Age Years    52    
Birth Year    1854 *    
Grave Type    Unconsecrated    
Grave Section    D    
Grave Number    148    
Register    7    
Page    323    
Page Row    14    

Lynn

[mabeljessie]

Very sad, parents died within 2 months leaving orphaned children to be farmed out amongst the wider family. It’s greater that census records could tell us so much. I have done so much research as my grandfather was the eldest son and came to Australia as a farm lad on a ship of 200 young men and boys.
Are you related Lynn or just interested?

[Linda2022]

Hi there, Helen was my granny and her son Gordon was my dad.
He told me about his gt grandad Thomas that he had cut his throat in the Irish fields in Otley as his wife had died and he couldn't cope.
Helen Hannah Burley Ruddock was sent to an orphanage in Harrogate.
I was born in Otley hospital and know the street they lived in as my brother drove me past it once.
I contacted this group as Helens brother Jack came for a visit about 30/40ish years ago .Linda x

[mabeljessie]

Linda that is so sad I wondered all along if it was suicide. I will look out my records tomorrow using my iPad at present and all records on my laptop. Emma’s death certificate etc., I think she died very shortly after childbirth of the youngest son with complications. I think he died in early infancy too.

My grandad was Thomas Burley, Thomas and Emma’s oldest son immigrated around 1911-14 not sure of dates and then John Gilbert immigrated I think around 1921? I assume John Gilbert would be Jack.

My grandfather Thomas died in a car accident before I was born and my father died when I was 8, so that side of the tree was very scant. I picked up a bit from my aunt but she was only 14 when her dad died so she didn’t know a lot. She had kept in touch with John Gilbert’s daughters’ so I wrote to one of them and she mentioned he had been back home and met his sisters. My aunt and I didn’t know he even had sisters before I started my research.

Do you have any idea from your granny why your grt grandfather Thomas left home and changed his name? I have some theories but wondered if anyone knows his real reason. And then why he came home and changed it again.

[Linda2022]

Oh how I wish I'd asked more questions, I remember sitting with my granny who I adored and her saying gt uncle Jack was going to visit. I've never heard of her having any sisters, do you think they meant my aunty's Minnie,  Kathleen and Lena  x

[Linda2022]

Have you had any contact with Holmes or Lambert,  there were some in rhe village we all lived in 2 miles from Otley,  Burley in Wharfedale xx