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Michael,

Can you give me any further clues about Canton, occupation, or area. The directory is all bmp's so I have to open each one and look at all the names, and there's over 50 files.

Cheers

Hi Michael,

Wiltshire Parish Registers:
Isaac Vineing (widower) & Elizabeth Wallon (spinster) married 14th February 1773, St. Martin, Salisbury, Wiltshire

I'll let you know about Canton.

Cheers

Phil

Hello Phil
I have tried a few times to get on to your site no luck am afraid.
I'm really hoping and praying that he can help me with this I have been struggling for so many years now. If it wasn't for the fact that I have my father's birth certificates and grandparents marriage certificates I would be absolutely convince that this family never existed.
The family that I am researching Beatty's from Dublin Ireland my grandfather Eugene Lawrence Beatty date of birth I believe 2nd of September 1894 I do have a little information from his war records but nothing about his life before the war or after the war. He enlisted into the Irish guards at Dublin on the 19th of September 1914. He gives is next of kin Father Michael Beatty of 27 Dartmouth road Leeson park Dublin. I do have more information but just do not want to bore you at the moment.
Thank you Lynne

Hi Phil.

Can you look up census on the 1861-
or 1871. John Maguire.came from
Enniskillen Ireland.

Married Bridget Brannan year 1859 in
Weardale Durham.

Thankyou.

libra.

Hi Phil

Wiltshire PRs - any WALLON

South Wales Pigot - any CANTON

Cheers

Michael

Happy to do any further lookups until the weekend, then I need to spend some time updating the website.

No problem, Phil, thanks very much for trying.

Mary,

Sorry, Lichfield doesn't seem to be included, I did search the whole directory just in case, but no luck.

Good luck

Phil

Hi Phil,

I believe there are some references in the Universal British Directory to Jonathan Mallet(t), an army surgeon from Lichfield, Staffordshire, who was with the British army in America in about 1760-1784.

If you have time, could you have a look?

Thanks very much,
Mary

Cheers John,

Reply on it's way.

Thanks

Phil

Phil,

I have sent you a note via your site as I have one of those unwanted certficates.

Regards
Jhn

Hi again
I have just had alook at the Swift family to see if William Swift and Margaret Stockley had a son called William but I can't see that they did unless that information is missing from my research.

It is all a great mystery.

Elizabeth

Hi Phil

My family's dates of birth are:-
Elizabeth 1878,Clara 1880,Earnest 1882, Margaret 1885, John 1886, Charlotte 1892.

So the only 2 that should show up on the 1881 census are Elizabeth 1878 and Clara 1880.
I had a chat with my Mum this morning who is John's daughter and she can't remember any other children than the ones I have.

Thanks again for looking

Elizabeth

Elizabeth,

Just one more point. The Earnest & John from the 1891 census wouldn't have been born for the 18881 census so they wouldn't have shown up. The dates for Chloe & Elizabeth match with the 1891 census dates for thiose children, along with both parents.

Cheers

Phil

Elizabeth,

The address for the 1891 census looks like 11 Kimble St.

If you check this link: http://www.lancashirebmd.org.uk/cgi/marrind.cgi?county=lancashire

and search you'll get this info:

HOUGHTON William WAINE Elizabeth Whiston, St.Nicholas Prescot C7/1/19

If you send me a mail to [email protected] I'll send you a readable census that you can open with MS Picture viewer.

Ah yes, just checked the FindMyPast site, and you can't search for an address for the 1881 census. :-(

I found the Swift's by searching for a Cloe with age & father & mother's details, she was the only viable one that came up.

Cheers

Phil

Hi Phil

Thankyou for carying on the search. To answer your questions:-
1) The marriage certificate states The parish Church in the parish of Whiston.
2) In answer to the Swift question. This is interesting as this has come up before.

Elizabeths's mother was Faith Stockley and she had a sister called Margaret who married a William Swift. They had a daughter called Elizabeth born about the same time as Elizabeth Waine 1850.

The children on your census don't quite match my William's as my William had Earnest and Charlotte and my John (who is my garnadfather )was John William not John Edward).

I know it is unlikely for them to be at the same address but just thought it mught give a clue.The family search .org gives the 1881 census but I don't know how to search by address.
I have a printed copy of the 1891 one but can't read the address!!

Many thanks again for your help

Elizabeth

Hi Elizabeth,

The marriage to Elizabeth, was that at St. Nicholas in Whiston, Prescot?

I know you might think it mad, but I found this under the Swift name. William & Elizabeth, right ages, birth places, and both daughters, plus others, but it does fit apart from the surname:

Name: William Swift
Age: 31
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1850
Relation: Head
Spouse's Name: Elizabeth
Gender: Male
Where born: Whiston, Lancashire, England

Civil Parish: Prescot
County/Island: Lancashire
Country: England

Street address: 13 Beaconsfield St
Condition as to marriage: Married
Education:

Employment status:

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Occupation: Coal Miner

Registration district: Prescot
Sub-registration district: Prescot
ED, institution, or vessel: 8
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Household Members:
Name Age
Clara Swift 1
Elizabeth Swift 31
Elizabeth Swift 3
Faith Swift 8
John Edwd. Swift 5
William Swift 31
William Swift 7

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Source Citation: Class: RG11; Piece: 3729; Folio: 64; Page: 39; Line: ; GSU roll: 1341893.


There are 2 sites that I know of that you can lookup addresses and that's www.thegenealogist.com, or www.findmypast.com. I'm a member of the first (until December) but that doesn't cover 1881.

It's unlikely they would still be at the same address 10 years earlier, but may well be worth a try.

Cheers

Phil

Phil
I am rather new to some of this.
When looking up census' is it possible to look up an address rather than a familly name to see who was living at an address 10 years before?
As I said I have found the family in the 1891 census but can't find them in 1881?
i will leave that thought with you over night.

I think I may be in for a trip to Liverpool at some stage!!

Many thanks
Elizabeth

Hi Phil
Many thanks for looking at that for me.

One thing I am 100per cent certain of is that he married Elizabeth Waine in 1871.
if I order a birth certificate how do I know I am ordering the correct one? There are a couple of William's that match that age and area.
He has certainly left me with a task!!

Elizabeth

Elizabeth,

Peter is a good guess. In the 1861 census (Class: RG9; Piece: 2744; Folio: 45; Page: 44; GSU roll: 543022.) there's certainly one that could be the family. If this is right, Peter is an engine fitter at coal face. There's a William that matches in the 1871 census (Class: RG10; Piece: 3860; Folio: 48; Page: 47; GSU roll: 841934.) who is a collier, but is married to an Ann (born abt. 1842) a few years older than him.

I'd suggest looking for his birth certificate, as that will tell you one way or another. It wasn't uncommon for children to be born out of wedlock and not have a father's name on their documentation.

Both of these census put him being born in 1849, there's only one William Houghton born in that year in Prescot (Registration area for Whiston) Q3 1849 Vol. 20 Page 847.

Let me know if you want me to do any further digging or you're going to buy a certificate.

Cheers

Phil