Ambrose (Manchester) and Barker family (Darlington)

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Here is France’s birth

WRIGHTSON, FRANCES       HEDLEY 
GRO Reference: 1859  S Quarter in DARLINGTON UNION  Volume 10A  Page 12


Yes, that Ambrose/Barker marriage  IS theirs, we have confirmed that with the subsequent working.
That question was just us getting going, and it was conceivable that you might have already had that information.

To confirm for sure you would need to buy one of their children’s birth certificates.

Thankyou (again). 

Is there a link in your post? If there is, its not displaying for me. I have searched Ancestry, but can only find a Mary Wrightson which is showing she had a daughter called Sarah J?

[mckha489]

No, there was no link, that is the GRO reference for Frances’s birth.
The HEDLEY is her mother’s maiden name

Free to register and search

https://www.gro.gov.uk/gro/content/certificates/indexes_search.asp


You can use the GRO index to find the rest of the children, there may well be some that were born and died between censuses.  It’s helpful to run a preliminary scan on www.freeBMD.org.uk as the GRO you can only do in 5 yr batches.

[mckha489]

I’m desperately trying not to spoil your fun, but if you are looking at trees on ancestry you can see there are two schools of thought for the parents of Mary HEDLEY

However, here is the marriage licence as she was under age, consent is given by her uncle Richard Paverley

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:S3HT-67L3-M68?i=125&cc=1675690&personaUrl=%2Fark%3A%2F61903%2F1%3A1%3AQ2CY-TL94

Confirms her parents must have been.
her father Richard, a blacksmith and her mother Sarah nee Paverley who had both died (1845 & 1846 respectively). Notices in newspaper for both those deaths.

[mckha489]

. I have searched Ancestry, but can only find a Mary Wrightson which is showing she had a daughter called Sarah J?

Search using John Marshall WRIGHTSON

[heatherjulie]

Buffalo Bill visited Manchester in 1903

https://images.manchester.gov.uk/Display.php?irn=4914&QueryPage=%2Findex.php%3Fsession%3Dpass&session=pass&QueryName=BasicQuery&QueryPage=%2Findex.php%3Fsession%3Dpass&Restriction=&StartAt=1&Anywhere=SummaryData%7CAdmWebMetadata&QueryTerms=buffalo+bill&QueryOption=Anywhere

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I’m desperately trying not to spoil your fun, but if you are looking at trees on ancestry you can see there are two schools of thought for the parents of Mary HEDLEY

However, here is the marriage licence as she was under age, consent is given by her uncle Richard Paverley

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:S3HT-67L3-M68?i=125&cc=1675690&personaUrl=%2Fark%3A%2F61903%2F1%3A1%3AQ2CY-TL94

Confirms her parents must have been.
her father Richard, a blacksmith and her mother Sarah nee Paverley who had both died (1845 & 1846 respectively). Notices in newspaper for both those deaths.

Thankyou very much for all your help so far!

I have also received a bit more info about the Barker side (my Grandmothers) again from my cousin, so I contacted a newspaper to confirm what he said was true and it is. The details from the first post, plus a front page article about the family in 1999. Hopefully now, I can go back even further.
My Grandads side though, I think that will be a different story. Probably more like a nightmare actually.

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. I have searched Ancestry, but can only find a Mary Wrightson which is showing she had a daughter called Sarah J?

Search using John Marshall WRIGHTSON

Thanks 

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Buffalo Bill visited Manchester in 1903

https://images.manchester.gov.uk/Display.php?irn=4914&QueryPage=%2Findex.php%3Fsession%3Dpass&session=pass&QueryName=BasicQuery&QueryPage=%2Findex.php%3Fsession%3Dpass&Restriction=&StartAt=1&Anywhere=SummaryData%7CAdmWebMetadata&QueryTerms=buffalo+bill&QueryOption=Anywhere

Interesting. Thanks for this.

I'm going to read into this one too 

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Please could somebody help with this next part?

Is Dolly referring to Doris? I found a Doris Hughes on Ancestry and from posts here etc, I think I've got the right lady?

Also Robert Junior had an wife from a first marriage called Alice who he had six children with and five with Dolly who I am assuming is Doris?

Its getting a little overwhelming now. I never realised the family was this big. They had a lot of kids back then didn't they?

I've attached a copy and paste which it wouldn't let me post here as there was too many characters