Could someone please help with a lookup in the 1851 Census in Lancashire. I’m having trouble finding birth and marriage records for Elijah Aspinall b: abt 1817, and his wife Elizabeth Radcliffe b: abt 1822. There is a record of an Elijah Aspinall marrying in Bolton in Sept. Qtr. 1845, but no spouse is mentioned. Death certificates in Victoria Aust. show that he was born in Bolton and Elizabeth was born in Leeds.
Shipping records tell us that Elijah came to Australia in Feb. 1855, and his wife and 2 children, Betsey 11, and Thomas Elijah, 8, followed in Feb. 1858. The death certificate of Elijah is unreadable only at the Issue section and shows an illegible word followed by “children”, then “names not known”.
The word in question appears to have a dot on an ‘i’ and could be five, six, eight or nine. We can only account for four children and wondered if one had died before they left England.
By my reasoning they should show as a family in 1851, as the death certificate of son Thomas shows his birthplace as Manchester.
I hope there is enough info for someone to assist.
Thanks
AlanO…..Melbourne
