I Wonder if SKS can help with my query if so I would be most grateful - My 2 x gt. Grandmother was Betty/Elizabeth Higham married to Thomas Higham - I have looked at the Cheshire Parish Lists and have found that she was buried 28/03/1838 aged 42yrs at Edgeley, Cheadle, but don't know where the church would be (or which one) she is recorded on Free BMD, Stockport, so I wonder which Register Office I would have to contact to obtain a Death Certificate. Her husband Thomas married a few months later to a widow (Mary Harrop) and on the 1841 census they are living Gate Street North, Cheadle, Cheshire, he is also recorded in 1851 with Mary and 2 children at 34 Pool Lane, Brinnington, Stockport. He is recorded on the Cheshire Parish Project buried at Larkhill 01/09/1857, aged 64yrs but I can't find him on Free BMD. I would also like to purchase his death certificate, but again don't know which office I would need to contact. I had given up for some while on the Higham Family, but have now had my appetite whetted once more as I have found through the Cheshire Registers that their daughter also Elizabeth/Betty (my gt. Grandmother)had a twin sister named Ann, both baptised Edgeley, but have not had any luck in finding Ann on the 1841 census with her brothers and sisters, so she may have died. Thank you Lilian

Lilian, Having been bred in that area I think you will find it is Northgate St ... It is now Northgate Road and Lark Hill is at the Brinksway end of Northgate Road. There was a Methodist Church with a burial ground in Edgeley. Almost certainly the Stockport RO is the one you need but if you have the name, death age and year correct it is odd that it is not on the Cheshire BMD.. And again Thomas is not on that site either. Check for spelling variants. Good luck Eric Millward ----- No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 2014.0.4259 / Virus Database: 3684/7058 - Release Date: 02/03/14

In 1841 I found this family at Lark Hill. Cheadle Bulkeley Thomas Higham45,Mary Higham30,Henry Higham20,Alice Higham15,Mary Higham14,Betty Higham12,Sarah Higham7,Susannah Higham5,Martha Higham2. This is not the address which you found but is the Lark Hill near Northgate Street which I mentioned earlier so Warrington may not be appropriate. >From ChesBMD Martha's mother may have been STREET. She was registered in 1839 so may be Mary's child. Eric Millward ----- No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 2014.0.4259 / Virus Database: 3684/7063 - Release Date: 02/05/14