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Well I can't thank you both enough. I think We have covered everything in an amazingly short space of time. Well done and a million thanks!!!
I will know tonight if I have matched Elizabeth to the correct family, as her marriage certificate is sitting on my doormat as we type. I am in Spain but my daughter has promised to go into the house, open it, and email it to me. Fingers crossed!!!
Carole

Carole - you have to let us know!!

Christine

OH NO!!!!

this John is a 'cartman' !!!!!!!!!

Christine

Christine, Thats the one I found....is it the right one..... what happened to his farm !!!


Regards Vera

was he a gambler perhaps??? lol!!!!

C

have you found John & Margaret after 1871??

C

No Christine....I haven't found them...on the 1871 just the one you have found.

Regards Vera

Name: John Purvis
Age: 60
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1821
Relation: Head
Spouse's Name: Margaret
Gender: Male
Where born: Creswell, Northumberland, England

Civil Parish: Wallsend
County/Island: Northumberland
Country: England

Street address: 1 Thames St
Condition as to marriage: Married
Education:

Employment status: View Image
Occupation: Roadmaker

Registration district: Tynemouth
Sub registration district: Wallsend
ED, institution, or vessel: 3
Neighbors: View others on page
Household Members: Name Age
Jane Potts 30
Margaret Potts
John Purvis 60
Margaret Purvis 58

1881 -
Jane is their daughter born Harkworth and a butchers wife
little Margaret is 4m born in Newcastle

Christine

Carole,
What a sad life Elizabeth had?

Regards Vera

Name: Jane Cuthbertson Purvis
Year of Registration: 1876
Quarter of Registration: Jan-Feb-Mar
District: Newcastle Upon Tyne
County: Northumberland, Tyne and Wear
Volume: 10b
Page: 87 (click to see others on page)


Name: Richard Potts
Year of Registration: 1876
Quarter of Registration: Jan-Feb-Mar
District: Newcastle Upon Tyne
County: Northumberland, Tyne and Wear
Volume: 10b
Page: 87 (click to see others on page)

think this is jane's marriage - so may well find margaret was a cuthbertson!

Christine

I thought we found Margaret's father and he was a Lawson?
C

Good Find Christine :-)


Regards Vera

Yes! just checking!!
No Cuthbertson / Purvis marriages around the right time!
Thank goodness!

It is sad - life was very hard then. We don't know we're born today!

Any news on that cert? I have to go out soon

Christine

Johns occupation is a roadmaker.....so what happened to the farm !!!

Regards Vera

Name: John Purvis
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1823
Year of Registration: 1886
Quarter of Registration: Jan-Feb-Mar
Age at Death: 63
District: Tynemouth
County: Northumberland
Volume: 10b
Page: 141 (click to see others on page)

possible death for John

Name: Margaret Lawson Purvis
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1818
Year of Registration: 1884
Quarter of Registration: Jan-Feb-Mar
Age at Death: 66
District: Morpeth
County: Durham, Northumberland
Volume: 10b
Page: 197 (click to see others on page)

and Margaret!!

Christine

Name: John Purvis
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1818
Year of Registration: 1891
Quarter of Registration: Jan-Feb-Mar
Age at Death: 73
District: Berwick
County: Durham, Northumberland
Volume: 10b
Page: 273 (click to see others on page)

or maybe this one for John
Christine

Carole,
The father in laws surname was Lawson....

Regards Vera

ok - will look again tonight - after WDYTYA?

Christine

The death certs look fine. Lawson pretty much clinches it for Margaret!
C

Carole,

1841 census

Christopher Lawson
Age: 50
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1791
Gender: Male
Where born: Northumberland, England

Civil Parish: Woodhorn
Hundred: Morpeth (East Division)
County/Island: Northumberland
Country: England

Street address:

Occupation: View Image

Registration district: Morpeth
Sub registration district: Bedlington
Neighbors: View others on page
Household Members: Name Age
Christopher Lawson 50 ag. lab.
Margt Lawson 25



Regards Vera