Hi All I've not been able to find Thomas BLACKER, who is married in Blackwell by Alfreton in 1798 to Martha Helkin. They have a daughter Ann who is bapt just a day before their marriage. On the whole I havn't found many with this name in Derbyshire to give me any clues. I'v searched for some years for this eleusive fellow. Any help appreciated. regards Hilary Thomas

Hilary, Daughter Ann was baptised two months after her parents were married according to the familysearch.org website. Seeing it was so soon after they married have you thought that perhaps they had moved far away from home to be married & have the baby before they moved back home again. There are a couple of baptisms, 1808 & 1809, in Darton, Yorkshire with a father Thomas but no mother's name, might be worth looking into. There's also one in Mansfield, Nottingham 1808, no parents at all for that one but another one to follow up. In the 1851 census there's a Martha Blacker aged 73 living in Liverpool, she was born in Ireland, could be her, strangely the entry said she was a Widow AND unmarried! I then started to look for Martha in the 1841 census and that's when I came across a more likely entry! She was aged 65, Independent means, born in Derbyshire and living in Sheldon which is a chapelry in the Bakewell parish. I had a look on the Bakewell CD I have but there's no Blackers on there, however, I think I have the Sheldon MIs on microfiche which I will dig out and check tomorrow for you, as it's after 2am New Years Day here! Happy New Year....Dawn ©¿©¬ Hilary Thomas wrote: > > Hi All > > I've not been able to find Thomas BLACKER, who is married in Blackwell by > Alfreton in 1798 to Martha Helkin. They have a daughter Ann who is bapt > just a day before their marriage. > On the whole I havn't found many with this name in Derbyshire to give me any > clues. I'v searched for some years for this eleusive fellow.