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Offline MissySoo

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Re: CHALLAND Family of Huddersfield (?)
« Reply #9 on: Monday 21 May 12 22:03 BST (UK) »
WOW !!!!   :o

You guys work fast lol ....

But seriously thank you both so much for helping me with this!!

I did check the 1841 census earlier today but as I was not too sure of her parents names I dithered about which family it might be. As It was I had no knowledge of the Syerston connection.  So thats another branch to go down.

JJ - can I ask where you obtained the marriage details for Thomas and Mary?  I'm new to the Family History addiction and wasn't sure where to look other than IGI/BMD etc.

Once again thank you !!

Soo
Derbys - BLOOD, CHADDOCK, DAKIN, GREGSON, HARDY, HUNT LATHBURY, MANSFIELD, PAKEMAN, RILEY, SALES, TOWLE, TURNER, YATES, WOOLEY
Staffs - PAKEMAN
Notts - CHALLAND, INGER, MORLEY,MOSELY, SHEPHERD
Huddersfield - CHALLAND,HAIGH,
Harwich, Essex - PITCHER
Yorks - HAIGH

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Re: CHALLAND Family of Huddersfield (?)
« Reply #10 on: Sunday 24 May 15 18:11 BST (UK) »
This is a bit of a late reply, but I came across Mary Ann Challand whilst researching the "Seed Hill Ghost" event of March 1855. In turn, that led me to an article detailing her involvement with the locating of the body of Sarah Ann Lumb earlier that year.

If you've managed to find any further details about Mary Ann, I'd love to know more!

Dave

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Re: CHALLAND Family of Huddersfield (?)
« Reply #11 on: Sunday 24 May 15 20:10 BST (UK) »
A bit more info about Mary Ann's parents...

Thomas seems to have a been a keen gardener and is named as a winner or runner-up in various local competitions. He worked as a commercial traveller for Mr. James North, of Kings Mill. He died in May 1855, aged 51, and was buried at St. Paul in Huddersfield on 30 May.

His wife, Mary, sank into a depression over his death and she took her own life on the afternoon of 18 July 1855, hanging herself from a stairwell banister. A verdict of "temporary insanity" was recorded at the inquest held the following evening.

Mary Ann is listed in the 1861 Census living in Leeds as a lodger at the house of police constable George Ramsden, 33 Templar Street, Leeds. Her occupation is given as "milliner".

As far as I can tell, Mary Ann never used her clairvoyant skills again after 1855.
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