Hi Mandy Looks like 32 Lower Thames. Do you have the image? Murray Jones Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada ************************ 1891 Census Civil parish: Westoe Ecclesiastical parish: St Thomas County: Durham Street address: 32 Lower Thames St. Source information: RG12/4154 Registration district: South Shields Sub registration district: Westoe ED, institution, or vessel: 12 Folio: 120 Page: 42 Name / Age in 1891 / Birthplace / Relationship to head-of-house Rigby, John W 6 South Shields, Durham Son Rigby, Mary A 1 Gateshead, Durham Daughter Rigby, Millicent H 29 (Widow) Bingley, Yorkshire Head Charwoman Rigby, James 3 Liverpool, Lancashire Son ************************************* ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mandy Fenyvesi" <mommy23@shaw.ca> To: <ENG-DURHAM-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, July 20, 2004 4:07 PM Subject: [ENG-DUR] Introduction, RIGBY > Hi > I'm trying to track down information on my GGgrandparents. My GGgrandmother > was Millicent Hannah FLINTHAM (aka Ann) > who was born in Bingley Yks in 1861 and was raised in Cheltenham Gloucs. > Her mother died in 1878 and in 1881 I finally find her living in a home for > Friendless Girls in Caldewgate, Cumberland. At some point between the 1881 > census and the birth of her first child, she met and married William RIGBY. > I cannot find any marriage on the GRO, and have no idea where to look for > parish registers. I can't find a perfect match for William on the 1881 > census so far either, and don't know where he was born. > > In about 1885 their first son was born John William RIGBY in Durham, South > Shields. Second son, James RIGBY was born next in Liverpool, Lancs and > their final child, Mary Alice RIGBY was born in Gateshead Durham in Oct. of > 1889. On Mary Alice's birth certificate, her father, William RIGBY, > brickmaker is recorded as deceased. Her mother is going by the name of Ann > RIGBY on the birth certificate. > > Mary Alice was born just under 3 months after her father, William RIGBY > died. I found his death in Sunderland and I recently received the > certificate. It states that he was 38 years of age at the time of his death > (which puts his birth approx 1851) and describes him as "A Brick Maker > Journeyman of 8 Fox Street, Gateshead, Durham. He died on July fifteenth > 1889 in the Bishopswearmouth Infirmary, after an accident. The cause of > death reads "Injuries by accidental fall on highway and run over by wagon he > was driving. Lived 2 days after". The wife's name does not appear on the > certificate, but I'm quite sure this would have been my guy, because he was > alive in about Feb 1889 to conceive baby, and deceased by her birth in Oct. > 1889, and his address is given as Gateshead, where she was born not 3 months > later and on her birth certificate and his death certificate his occupation > is listed as Brickmaker. The informant on the death certificate is Crofton > Maynard, coroner for Easington Ward, Durham. Inquest held 16 July 1889. > The death was registered 17 July. > > By the 1891 census I find them living in Durham South Shields (Lower Thames > Street?) again. > Millicent H Rigby, a widow is 29 years old and a charwoman > John W., son is 6 born Durham S. Shields > James, son, is 3, born liverpool lancs > and Mary Alice age 1 is born Gateshead > > By 1901 she is married to a Richard Michell (b. in Cornwall, but I found him > married to someone else in 1881 in Sunderland) and living in Edmonton, > Middlesex (his daughter Susannah from the 1881 census is also in Middlesex > but not living with them. > > And that is my entire Durham connection as far as I know. Unless William > Rigby has family ties there that I haven't discovered yet. > > I am wondering if anyone has come across any of this family in their > research, and also I'm wondering if anyone can point me in the direction of > a newspaper that might contain details of William RIGBY's death. I"m in > Canada, so visiting an archive is pretty difficult, but if there was an > online resource for a paper in the right area, it would be a great help. > I've been informed that inquest records for that period are likely not in > existence any more. > > Thanks for reading this far! > > Mandy > Calgary, AB > > > > ==== ENG-DURHAM Mailing List ==== > Newbies' Guide to Genealogy & Family History > by ROY STOCKDILL > http://www.genuki.org.uk/gs/Newbie.html > >