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Greeting’s. ……… Katherine Did you miss Thomas’s wife Mary ? 1851. Census returns HO 107 / 2088 / 690 / Page. 3. Leicester. St. Margaret’s Parish. Upper Charles Street. No. 5. Sergeants Yard. THOMAS ALLEN Head M 52 M Fwk Lei Hinckley MARY ALLEN Wife M 50 F Laundress Lei Shilton SARAH ALLEN Dau U 18 F Laundress Lei Leicester JAMES ALLEN Son 15 M Bricklayers Lab Lei Leicester MARY ALLEN Dau 6 F Scholar Lei Leicester JOHN GROGAN Visiter U 16 M Bricklayers Lab War Birmingham They are proving difficult to track down in 1841. But will try keeping my eyes open for them. …….. Just wonder if this is their burial details ? Welford Road Cemetery Plot. U.O. 743. ALLEN WILLIAM 1855 Aug 7 36 Bedford Street Saint Margaret 3323 ALLEN THOMAS 1870 Nov 21 72 Charles Street Saint George 25100 ALLEN MARY 1884 Jul 28 71 Leicester Union House Saint Margaret 53514 MIKE.

birth lookup plz benjamin harriman b 1805 shepshed?? leicester thanks sj

For anyone interested in All Saints Leicester.... Tour of Church, 10.30am, Saturday 25th August. Hoping I might find some clues to my elusive Butlers who lived in the area!! P.S. Mike, Wondering if I have found more circumstantial evidence for Thomas Edward Butler the Chemist being a cousin to my John Butler (also Chemist)?? Elizabeth Ann Norton who married John's son Edward Henry christened into Great Meeting Independent in Kettering (1828). Think have found Thomas Edward christened into Great Meeting Presbyterian in Leicester (1831). Had always though that Elizabeth and Edward met through his work as a travelling salesman, but IF he was cousin to Thomas Edward Butler (Chemist) maybe he too was connected with the Great Meeting Church in Leicester (having found no trace of his baptism anywhere else) and met Elizabeth through links between the Churches?? Or am I clutching at straws?? Would value your opinion Oh Great One!! Thanks, Maggie (who can't make Leicester meet but hopes you all have a good time!!)

sorry if iv repeated stuff but i dont think i have sorry mike sj

Mary, i can't do 28th or 29th i'm afraid, would only be available on the bank holiday Monday......... but wont be offended if the majority can't do Monday,lol Sj would you mind removing those comments please! i don't get involved in any arguments on here, but feel very strongly about this one. Don't think Mike deserves comments like that after all he has done for you.... he has spent many hours trawling through his discs and gave up his time at the record office for you, but you keep asking the same questions!! i quite understand how he feels as you have done the same to me on my look up thread on Records board !!

I am not sure what has gone before as I am firley new to this thread but I must say Mike has gone out of his way to help me and I am greatful. more power to you Mike. Paul

Mary I haven't made any specific arrangements over bank holiday as yet, will checking in to see what everyone thinks Elaine

May I add my support for Mike, the second message was totally uncalled for after being helped with so many look ups. Elaine

Hi Si I agree with Mary from Italy, Mike as been on this thread since i first started it and as helped a lot of people you are the only one who feels like this. Mikes attitude as always been all right . We have always been Friendly on this board and always tried to help people.Without Mike we wouldn't have got to part fourteen A person can only help you so much ive read over previous thread and you seemed to be asking the same questions Bev

Hi Mike Thanks for trying with my George Whitehead! Do you have any tips on where I could try looking next? I have trawled through ancestry and I keep going around in circles!? Thanks again for your help Gemma.

Suggested mini-meet: How would 28th or 29th August suit everyone who's interested? 27th would be OK with me, but I imagine most people will already have plans for the bank holiday. Elaine's going away on the 30th, which is why I didn't suggest a later date. What sort of time do you prefer? Does anyone have any suggestions for a venue? Possible attendees so far: Mary from Italy Jane from Loughborough Elaine Stephens Mike from Leicester.

Thanks very much for those Poole baptisms, Mike. It looks as though that Thomas bap. 1837 may be a second Thomas born to my Joseph and Hannah after the first one died. No idea who Thomas and Harriet Pool are, but in view of the Thornton Lane address, they may well be connected with my lot. Probably cousins of some kind, but so far I haven't found any siblings for Joseph's father Richard. Thanks for the Record Office details - I hadn't realised 27/8 was a bank holiday, so I might have gone for nothing. Nice to hear that you might be able to come to a meet - I'll post a separate message about it.

Mike, thank you so much for looking up William and Hannah's marriage at the Record Office - I'm really grateful, and I didn't expect that at all. Thanks again Rosemary

Sorry, sj, I can't quite see what the problem is. So far as I can see, Mike's always unfailingly polite to everyone on the Leicestershire threads, and he does an amazing job with numerous look-ups. I can't see any post where he's been rude to you.

Greetings again Mike I am eager to identify the birth parents of ANN TOMKINS b c1818-1822. (not the ANN TOMKINS daughter of Samuel and Elizabeth b1819). The ANN I am seeking was the unmarried mother of several children she is shown with different PARTNERS on the 1861/71 Census. Many thanks Jon O'Kent

Thanks once again Mike I tried AA and RAC rout planners waist of time, now I can look at a map and also put the record strait on my tree. Paul

Greeting’s Again Paul ….. Just the E & S round the wrong way but close for those over the pond. ….lol :0)))) COTESBACH. in Dooms day book 1068 = Cotesbece Cotes ( Pears .n. ) Bece (a stream valley ) Midway from Lutterworth & Shawell. Just off to the left of the A 426. But do not blink otherwise you’ll miss it……. MIKE.

Hello again Mike. Just a bit of information- Have you heard of a place called Cottsebach Leicester? I have it in one of my American rellies in the 1600s but I can't find it on the modern day maps, you know what the Yanks are like for getting English spellings wrong lol. Paul

*** F.A.O. *** James. Extra details from the original Marriage Registers :~ ANNO DOMINI Twyford. William of this Parish. Frances Large of the Parish of Somerby. By Banns by J. Clark Vicar. Both signed by own signatories. Wit’s :~ William Lane. By Mark = + John Walker. William Fisher of this Parish. Alice Gibson. Of this Parish. By Banns. J. Clark. Vicar. Alice by her Mark = + 4th, Nov. 1810. Wit’s :~ William Palmer. Elizabeth Whitehead. Baptisms :~ 1785. Robert. Son of William & Frances Fisher. ….Bapt. ….27th. Feb. 1790. Jane daughter of William & Frances. ….Bapt……24th. Jan. 1791. Michael. Son of William & Frances Fisher Paupers. Bapt. 6th. May. 1798. Ann. Daughter of William & Frances Fisher. Paupers.…..Bapt.18th. March. 1800. Elizabeth. Daughter of William & France Fisher Paupers.. Bapt. 17th. Dec. Re look up of Marriage. 1893. Sept. Qrt. Lucy Fisher ~ Henry / Harry Halford. Leicester 7a. 293. I will have a look at the other Parishes It's not St. Margaret's Church. Could be All Saints as that is where Lucy was with children & Parents 1901. Seeing that there was another married Daughter of John Fisher Also with in the same household also with out her husband. Just wonder if both were away fighting in 2nd Boar War. 1899. ~ 1902.? MIKE.

***F.A.O.*** Gemma O’ Canada. I’ve now completed the trawl through Nonconformist Registers for the Loughborough Area…….. Sorry No sign of your George Whitehead. The only Whitehead records is as follows Micro Films No’s 15 ~ 49. Wesleyans. Film 15. 31st. Jan. 1819. Louisa. Daughter of Thomas & Phoebe Whitehead. Thorpe Acre. 11th. Oct. 1822. Elizabeth. Daughter of Thomas & Phoebe Whitehead. Thorpe Acre. Film 49. 17th. May. 1826. Thomas Eggerton Whitehead. Son of Thomas & Mary Whitehead, Shardlow. in the County of Derby. 26th. Sept. 1833. William Eggerton Whitehead. Son of Thomas & Mary Whitehead. Shardlow. Which seems to fit in with George being in Nottinghamshire latter. Sorry I was not able to hit the nail on the head MIKE.xx