Francis Ledger, B. 1745 East Retford, Nottinghamshire

[Ledge]

Hi guys,

I've tracked my family back as far as Francis Ledger, born in East Retford, Nottinghamshire in 1745.

Christening records indicate he was christened 8 May 1745 with the name "Francis Ledgier", his father being a "Joh. (John) Ledgier"

The Christening records are all I have for a John Ledger (even tried spelling it Ledgier) born in this area in the early 18th century.

I've looked on a few online databases and websites to no avail.

Would anyone be able to point me in the right direction?

Thanks

[Dizzifish]

Hello... Welcome to Rootschat 

There is this marriage:
St Michael the Archangel - West Retford - 25th Feb 1745
John LEDGER & Hannah BAILEY


You might get more help if this post was on the Nottinghamshire board.... maybe one of the Mods will move it for you


Regards

Sheila.

[Ledge]

Hello... Welcome to Rootschat  :)

There is this marriage:
St Michael the Archangel - West Retford - 25th Feb 1745
John LEDGER & Hannah BAILEY


You might get more help if this post was on the Nottinghamshire board.... maybe one of the Mods will move it for you


Regards

Sheila.

Fantastic. Thank you so much Sheila. May I ask where you found this? (are we allowed to on here?)

Also, thanks mods for moving this post to the right place.

[Dizzifish]

Hi,

The marriage information came from the Nottinghamshire Family History indexes, not all years and parishes have been transcribed yet.

It looks like your Francis also had two brothers?

St Swithun, Retford - father John Ledger
Thomas - 31st Oct 1749
Gervase - 2nd Oct 1751

Here is a link you might like to try to be going on with - useful to see what may be available online.
East Retford & West Retford is on there, it might throw up more results if you just put "ledg*" in the search box 

http://dustydocs.com/county/1/england/29/nottinghamshire.html

If you need any more help just say... plenty of folk any here more than willing to help.


Sheila.

[trish1120]

Was just about to post info on the 2 Brothers!

Burials;
St Swithin, East Retford;
HANNAH Ledger, Wife of JOHN, 12 December 1777
JOHN Ledger, 21 December 1779
Source FreeREG


Trish

[Dizzifish]

Hi Trish....

That's really good re the burial, as they're not on the NFHS burial index, they have only been transcribed from 1813 - 1900


Sheila.

[trish1120]

Thats interesting Sheila, some good luck there then on FreeREG

This may be Gervase;

LEDGER Christened East Retford;
ELIZABETH, 23 Oct 1775, Buried 18 Nov 1781, Parents Jervas/Mary
MARY, 25 July 1779 to Jervas/Mary
MARTHA, 02 Oct 1781 to Jervas/Mary
JAMES, 03 Jan 1784 to Jarvis/Mary
POLLY, 04 Jan 1786 to Jervis/Mary

Marriage of a Jonas LEDGER to Mary SAVAGE, 26 Feb 1775, St Swithin
(FreeREG)

THOMAS Ledger probably Married Sarah BROWN same Church 01 April 1771
(FreeREG)
(Source Familysearch.Org)

Burials, St Swithin;
GERVAS Ledger. 01 July 1827 age 79 (Wife Mary 13 June 1834 age 78) abode of both Twin Lane.

[Ledge]

WOW. Lots of new information.

I'll have to add this all to my tree when I get a moment. I had Thomas as marrying both an Ann and a Sarah at different times in his life but this is probably wrong of course.

The next step is to find more info on John Ledger. Thanks to Dizzyfish, I have evidence that would indicate he married a Hannah Bailey. Hopefully that link you provided will bring up some Christening Records for him - many thanks!

[trish1120]

You may be right that Thomas married twice;
1771 to Sarah BROWN and 1777 to Ann PEARSON, entry on FreeREG does not state if he was Widowed though on 1777 Marriage.

Do you know where Thomas/Sarah were living post 1771?

There is a Burial of a SARAH Ledger, Wife of THOS, 01 Nov 1774, St Peter, Headon-cum-Upton
Abode, Gainesbrough
A LUCY Ledger was Buried 28 July 1774, Daug of THOS/SARAH, same abode

+  a BETTY Ledger, Daug of THOMAS/ANN was Buried St Swithin, East Retford, 22 March 1778

LUCY Baptised St Swithins 17 Dec 1771 to THOMAS/SARAH
BETTY Baptised same Church 23 Feb 1778 to THOMAS/ANN

So looks likely that Thomas Married Sarah and Ann to me.

Trish