Anyone want any searches or photos done in Whitehaven

[Geoff E]

Candice

It's a pity you didn't make this request a couple of weeks ago ... I was in Whitehaven last week and looked up the marriage of a Robert NESBITT at Whitehaven Holy Trinity in March 1833!

On my visit to Whitehaven last year, I met (quite by chance!) an internet contact from the US who was connected to the NESBITT family you are researching (John NESBITT born c1843 who married Agnes BELL - she was sister to an ancestor of mine).  I expect she will have looked at the marriage.

I have sent a PM with contact details.

[Candice]

Geoff,
Thanks for the reply!  I met you in Whitehaven when I was with my Mom (Pat).  At the time we were not sure that this was our line, but since figured it out.  We did have the date but didn't get a copy of it to see if there would be any more information on it.
I live in Southern UK now but won't be able to get up to Whitehaven right now to get it.
How are you doing on your/our Bell line?
Thanks,
Candice

[Geoff E]

Candice

I've PM'd my e-mail address to you.  You can access your messages via a link at the top of the Cumberland Forum.

[Kitch]

Andrew.
Can I take advantage of your offer---if it still stands--please?
Do you have access to Parish Registers for Whithaven? If so, would you mind looking for a Francis Woosnam b about 1808 to Richard and Ann. I have spent the last 3 years looking for him in Montgomeryshire and have come up with nowt! Someone has now suggested that his father might have been in  Cumbria in the Army and he might have been registered or baptised there.
Thank you in advance---I am at my wits end now, and am clutching at straws.
Yours.
Ann.

[erin21]

Andrew

I am researching the Cannell family from White haven.  Joanna Cannell born 1857 approx her father was William Cannell a Saddler. If you have any info on this family I would be very pleased

Erin

[Beccavblack]

I expect your one off offer has long since expired, but if you ever do get a chance, I'm looking for a marriage between James Wood and Mary Ramsey of Whitehaven around 1820.  There is nothing on the IGI, but I think there are some gaps in the records there.  He was a mariner.  They subsequently moved to Liverpool, but their first 2 daughters were born in Whitehaven, Jane & Elizabeth.  All her sisters seem to have been married in Whitehaven, sister Jane married Matthias Spedding and Sister Rebecca married wilson Pearons, but no sign of Mary's marriage.

[atom12]

  Hi

Well if your offer still stands and you ever get the time, I would really appreciate a look-up for my grandad and his family. Grandad is William Moreland, born 1873, Whitehaven. 

I would really like to know his dob/address/anything else!The family came from Ireland (don't know what part). William's father was called John, his mother Mary and I think he had an older brother called John.

I would be extremely chuffed if you can find out anything.

Anne

[Subaru]

Hi Anne

I found a Wm Moreland living at 13 Todhunters Building in Whitehaven on the 1881 census.

Joseph Moreland    b 1851   Ireland   Labourer at Iron Works
Mary Moreland        b 1854   Ireland
Wm Moreland          b 1873   Ireland
Joseph Moreland     b 1874   Ireland
Mary Amy Moreland b 1876  Whitehaven
Wm McKee               b 1831  Ireland       Iron Furness Labourer  (Father-in-law)

I haven't looked at the other years yet, but does this seem like your family?

Rosemary

[PixieAnna]

Hi Subaru,

Sorry for butting in Anne  , but I couldn't pass up the chance to ask Subaru for a lookup if possible.

If you get the time, do you have anything in the Whitehaven OPR's or 1841 Census for Joseph Benjamin Hankinson, b 1816 Macclesfield, Cheshire, or his eldest child Martha was born in Whitehaven, Sep Qtr 1844?
On 1851 he is listed as an Inland Revenue Officer in Shropshire, having worked his way from Cheshire to W'haven, then Caputh, Perth in Scotland.
Do you know whether there would have been a need for Revenue or Customs Officers in Whitehaven at that time?

I would be very grateful for any info you can provide, as these rellies are quite unusual amongst my ancestors, most of whom stayed where they were born!

Many thanks,
Pixie