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Hello Debi - I can't see on Ancestry that baptism you found (was it from IGI?)

There are these:

Elizabeth Wilks abt 1825 Woodkirk, St Mary 14 Dec 1825 John Wilks, Elizabeth Wilks

Elizabeth Wilks 2 Apr 1825 Leeds, St Peter (Leeds Parish Church) 2 May 1825 Thomas Wilks, Mary Wilks

Elizabeth Wilks abt 1828 Knaresbrough and Harrogate 7 Sep 1828 John Wilks, Frances Wilks

Elizabeth Wilks 28 Jan 1829 Leeds, St Peter (Leeds Parish Church) 16 Mar 1829 John Wilks, Lydia Wilks

Nudge for Sue from leeds

Where are you Janey??? Maybe Glitter baby or my delightful Dea can help.

I was going to start a new thread, but thought it would be better adding it to this one.

I have found a baptism for Elizabeth Wilks (Could be Roberts mum), but I was wondering if anybody with full a Ancestry membership could view the full record and let me know if there is anything else of interest?


name: Elizabeth Wilks
event type: Baptism
birth date:
birthplace:
christening date: 16 Feb 1828
christening place: Leeds, Yorkshire
marriage date:
marriage place:
death date:
death place:
burial date:
burial place:
father's name: Henry Wilks
mother's name: Ann Wilks
record set: RG4_1917


Now the only info I have for Elizabeth is an estimate birth year of 1827 and a estimate death date of 1905. The rest is on this thread.

I'm going with this Elizabeth at the moment as her dad was called Henry and that was Roberts middle name.

Thanks in advance.

Debi.x

Thank you Janey, I will look forward to seeing what you can achieve after a good nights sleep!

I like the theory though...interesting!

Sleep well.

Debi.x

Too soon to say. ;)

I think it's interesting that they married in Hampshire where Jane was from ... Richard's from Yorkshire ... and coincidentally another Gaunt marries in the same place and quarter. Did Jane marry as Gaunt?


Name: Richard Lister Gaunt
Gender: Male
Baptism/Christening Date:
Baptism/Christening Place:
Birth Date: 11 May 1819
Birthplace: York, England
Father's Name: Joseph
Mother's Name: Ann
Indexing Project (Batch) Number: I03151-0
Collection: England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975

Name: Richard Lister Gaunt
Event Type: Birth
Birth Date: 11 May 1819
Birthplace: Kildwick, Yorkshire
Father's Name: Joseph Gaunt
Mother's Name: Ann Gaunt
Record Set: RG4_1915
Collection: England and Wales, Non-Conformist Record Indexes (RG4-8)


Looks like everything's submitted.


Name: Jane Gaunt
Gender: Female
Baptism/Christening Date: 22 May 1831
Baptism/Christening Place: Holmfirth, York, England
Father's Name: Joseph Gaunt
Indexing Project (Batch) Number: I02922-8
Collection: England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975


Could be his sister who married in Hampshire.


pilot.familysearch says there was a Jane Gaunt in Hampshire in 1841, aged 28, but Ancestry won't find her for me.

'Fraid I didn't go to sleep last night, too few IQ points firing today to be weighing wild theories. See what somebody else thinks, or catch you tomorrow!

1851 in Headingley With Burley, Hunslet reg dist

Richard Lister Gaunt 31 - born Skelton? Yorkshire (I don't know the geog)
Jane Gaunt 42 - born Fordingbridge, Hampshire
Elizabeth Gaunt 24 - born Pudsey Yorkshire

It does say ditto for her name, and relation is servant, occupation house servant. Odd.

Not seeing anybody in 1841 either ... but note that Richard and Jane Who didn't marry until almost 1851 census time. I wonder whether that Elizabeth was that Jane's daughter.

That looks like them...

So, if my theory is correct, Elizabeth would have already been pregnant.

What you think??? Am I going off on one?

Just seems strange that I cant find her in 1851 and there is an Elizabeth living with Gaunts as a servant...and she was down as a Gaunt but not daughter, but a servant.

???????????

Debi.x

Marriages Dec 1850
BARTLETT John Fordingbridge 8 325
Early Mary Fordingbridge 8 325
? Gaunt Jane Fordingbridge 8 325
> Gaunt Richard Lister Fordingbridge 8 325
Head William Fordingbridge 8 325
Newman Elizabeth Fordingbridge 8 325
? Pleden Jane Fordingbridge 8 325
Shering Mary Fordingbridge 8 325
Teague Benjamin Fordingbridge 8 325

Calling Janey!!!

I've got a wild theory to put to you.

I thought, before I moved on and put my time into the Beckett side of my family, I would look at the Gaunt-Wilks thing with fresh eyes once more.

We are kinda sure that Elizabeth was born a Wilks, called herself Gaunt when she had Robert and then married a Brown.

Well, we never found Elizabeth in 1851, so I searched for Elizabeth Gaunt in 1851, thinking maybe she called herself this before Robert was born. WELL...I found a

Richard Lister(?) Gaunt 31 - woollen manufacture- employed 100 hands- at Lees Road in Hunslet, Kirkstall, Leeds, birth place Skipton.

Jane Gaunt- wife- 42!!!-


Elizabeth 24- has ,, as if she is called Gaunt too But it says SERVANT!!! NOT DAUGHTER!!!

SO...do you think Richard who was 31 and had a 42 year wife fancied a bit of the other with a 24 year old servant girl???

Elizabeth had Robert 5/5/1851
So would have been nearly ready to give birth , being around 8months pregnant.

I have tried to search for Richard and Jane after this, to see if the Elizabeth was still with them, because mine was with Mr Brown in 1861 but I cant find them!

Can you help me again please?

<3 <3 <3

Debi.x

Yaaaay me (and Glitter Baby who added her vote)!

Do I get my name on Facebook *now*??

First, do us one favour -- go back to the post above mine and take out about half of your dots,
and then add a space before WILKS. Then your post won't extend the width of two monitors. ;)

Meanwhile, I'm typing in short lines ...

I have to leave Robert o you for the moment, gotta get some paying work done.
Never say end of the line!

Right Janey, I now have the Brown/Gaunt marriage certificate...A little disappointing;

1855
Benjamin Brown 25 bachelor brick maker (ROBERTS JOB...did he follow in his stepfathers footsteps?) Wortley Fathers name= George Brown-weaver.

Elizabeth Gaunt 28 Spinster, no profession, Wortley, NO FATHERS NAME OR JOB!!!

Witnesses...looks like Edwin(?) Brown and Emma(?) WAIT FOR IT................ WILKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


HA HA HA

Well, looks like you were correct, practically 100% that she is my Elizabeth (g g g Grandmother)

Sadly though, I can't trace Roberts father and now I can't trace his mothers parents...possible I might find her mum, but think its the end of the line where the Gaunts are concerned. Still have plenty to do on the other side though!

Chat soon.

Debi

:D :D :D :D :D :D :D

Nothing for father's name -- to be expected since there was no father on his birth certificate. Had just hoped that since he'd switched his surname, he knew and would have named his father ...

The Gaunt/Brown marriage certificate should be interesting -- even for ruling out which is something we all gotta do sometime. The info Gaunt gives should make it possible to find her in censuses as Gaunt -- or not. And to match her to Wilks in censuses -- or not. ;)

Mind updating? Heavens no! It's what the threads are for. You never know which bit of info might lead someone reading to find something else.

Your Brown contact ... probably signed on here years ago and has been through three email addresses since then and never updated their email address in their account here, so has never got notice of your message. It happens more often than not, unfortunately.

Hi Janey

Received Robert and Hannah's marriage certificate today, a bit disappointing.

He married on the 20/03/1871 to Hannah Barraclough. He was 19 and she was 18. No addresses for either, just Low Wortley. It does confirm I have the correct Hannah though, as her Father was Samuel Barraclough, a weaver and thats who I had! Witnesses are George Whitehouse and Ellen Worsnap(?) and they married at the parish church of Leeds, which I think is St Peters???

He married under the name, Robert Henry Wilks Gaunt. There is nothing in the space for the fathers name or fathers profession.

I've ordered the Gaunt/Brown marriage Cert. so I'm hoping that might reveal more AND I'm still waiting for my Brown person to open his email!!!

I hope you don't mind me updating you?

Best wishes

Debi

Thank you Janey.

My Brown person still hasnt recieved my email...so frustrating!

Debi

Parish records on line, about which I am not an expert.

http://www.familysearch.org/eng/search/igi/search_igi.asp?

http://pilot.familysearch.org/recordsearch/start.html

and there's some "beta" thing to go with that second one that I haven't tried.

There are county-specific sites, so the easiest thing to do is just google, e.g.:

lancashire parish records

For burials, once you have death records? There's the National something burial index, and some people on here offer lookups.

Thanks for the above dittys.

My Brown person still hasn't opened his email!!! Aargggghhhhhhhh!

I want to access parish records soon, but haven't got a clue how to go about it.
Also, how do I find out where people are buried?

Debs

Well yee hah!

I started, hm, around 2003. I cut my own teeth on that mystery gr-grf of mine, about whom I knew nothing except his own false story about his father. Took some months to figure out who he really was, but I got him nailed down in the end -- and two years ago was told a tale by the son of one of my mum's older first cousins (also a grandchild of the man in question) that clinched the wild theory.

My gr-grf was Ernest Augustus Monck, father Francis Monck. Except no such person was ever born, and no such father existed. I ferreted out, just from a string of coincidences in records, that he was really Ernest Augustus Hill, the change having happened sometime in the mid-late 1870s. Well, my mum's cousin didn't know anything about that, but it turned out she knew the reason for it: he had deserted from the British military after 5 years in India when he was due for discharge and was told instead he was being sent to Afghanistan. (Do things never change?) And he lived the rest of his life -- to a very old age in Canada -- having nightmares about the old queen coming to get him.

Ernest Hill's first wife had died in 1873, shortly after the marriage and birth of their child. The second Anglo-Afghan War started in 1878. Ernest Monck first appeared in the 1881 census. A 100% perfect fit.

Or you can read all 7 pages of the tale in my thread here. ;) (It was started long after I'd figured it all out, but contains all the new revelations along the way.) (Oh garbage, I now have to go through and fix all the colons turned into stupidfaces. I think I'll just wait and see whether the management here fixes that problem soon as we have been pleading with them to do.)

http://www.genesreunited.co.uk/boards.page/board/ancestors/monck/thread/976217

Oh, and my No.1's eyes glaze over totally whenever I mention the word genealogy. Except when I found one of my ancestors in the military around 1814. That actually seemed to be something he could get a grip on and marvel at.

Janey!

I've just got a tree match for Elizabeth Wilks and his surname is Brown!!!

Got a good feeling :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D

I've emailed him, so only time will tell!

Right, I will try that next time I post my findings, I'm new to this and learning all the time.

I'm loving the detective role and like something to get my teeth into, even though its frustrating at times.

My lovely husband doesn't quite 'get' my enthusiasm for all this, but will listen and nod in all the right places ;-)

How long have you been doing this?

Debi

You're doing excellently at copying and pasting. ;)

Just a persnickety request from me. I go crazy when I try to read the globs of text that result from copying records from this site (and I know I'm not alone).

1901 census record for household of Elizabeth Brown
Address 234 Low Wortley Road
Civil Parish Wortley
Administrative County Leeds

Name Benjamin Brown
Relation to Head of Family Grand Son
Condition as to Marriage Single
Age Last Birthday 13
Sex Male
Profession or Occupation Brickyard Labourer
Where Born Yorks Leeds Wortley

Name Elizabeth Brown
Relation to Head of Family Head
Condition as to Marriage Widow
Age Last Birthday 74
Sex Female
Where Born Yorks Leeds Wortley

Name Sarah Brown
Relation to Head of Family Daughter
Condition as to Marriage Single
Age Last Birthday 45
Sex Female
Profession or Occupation Worsted Cloth Meader
Where Born Yorks Leeds Wortley


It takes a minute to delete the bumph, but it makes it so much easier to see what's there.


So aha, in 1861 the Browns were next to this household in Wortley:

Susanna Wilks 62 - born c1799 Wortley
James Wilks 22
Mary J Wilks 18
John W Wilks 10 Weeks


Here's the household in 1851 in Leeds, reg dist Hunslet, subdistrict Wortley:

John Wilks 51
Susanah Wilks 51
Sarah Wilks 22
Thomasina Wilks 20
Ruth Wilks 18
Emma Wilks 15
James Wilks 12
Mary Ann Wilks 8


And here they are in 1841 in Tankersley, reg dist Leeds, subdistrict Wortley:

John Wilks 40
Susann Wilks 40
Sarah Wilks 12
Hanasina Wilks 9
Ruth Wilks 6
Emma Wilks 4
James Wilks 2

Elizabeth, born c1827, could have been living apart as a servant already at that point.