Catching Up, it is early morning here and the grandkids are still asleep.
Dobfarm, Thomas is listed as a miner on his wedding cert and signs his name, quite literate, he writes very detailed reports on the mine. His wife Elizabeth Hawkins is Illiterate and her father? George who was a witness also illiterate.
Heywood. Yes that Sarah Windle is correct, I haven't tracked much of her or her family yet. How did you see the information that she already had children with a different surname? I think I will have no trouble tracking down the nephew John Greenwood, I am reasonably good at Victorian records and Victorian geography, awful at UK.
Neale, I agree with you sometimes you have to test some strange assumptions just to eliminate them, or even prove them. I'm not ruling anything out at all until I have proof. Miners were very mobile people, they tended to go where the rushes were happening so the wife and child might have vanished miles from where most of the action happened. I have checked the cemeteries that are around Scarsdale with no luck but they could be a long way away.
Yes I agree about that passenger on "Martin Luther" his age is a bit off.
