Hello David, Who were the parents of your James HEYWOOD.? I have a James HEYWOOD, (father, William, mother, Ann TAYLOR), who married a Mary Hannah CHEETHAM in St. Mary`s, Prestwich in 1861. The 1st. born, Mary Ann HEYWOOD married a Richard VERITY IN 1883. The VERITY`s are my family line. Norm. ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Heywood" <david@heatherkop.freeserve.co.uk> To: <ENG-LAN-MIDDLETON-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, September 11, 2005 8:23 PM Subject: [ENG-LAN-MIDDLETON-L] James Heywood in Rhodes > I wonder if anyone can help with tracing my difficult gt grandfather and his roots. > > >From the census data, James HEYWOOD was born abt 1832 in Middleton (c1861 London), Rhodes (Middlesex, sic, in c1871 London) and Rhodes when he was Lodging in Middleton in c1881 with his second London born wife and their 3 children still in London. He is variously described as a Machine printer on calico, colour printer and commercial traveller etc. His first wife in the 1861 census was 10 years older than him, born Goodwood Sussex and also described as 'Do' ie a machine printer on calico. I have assumed he trained in Rhodes/ Middleton before moving to London but have not found him in the 1841 & 1851 cd's but many sheets are unreadable, or in the transcribed damaged pages. Nor have I found either marriage or a death for his first wife before his second marriage by the time of the 1871 census. He named my grandfather Henry Halliwell (various spellings) Heywood and his sister Florence Seelig Heywood, two interesting second names. > > Any help or advice would be very gratefully received > > David > Fishguard Pembs > > > ==== ENG-LAN-MIDDLETON Mailing List ==== > To unsubscribe, > you should send the command "unsubscribe" to ENG-LAN-MIDDLETON-L-request@rootsweb.com > (if in mail mode) or ENG-LAN-MIDDLETON-D-request@rootsweb.com (if in digest mode.) > To switch from one mode to the other, you should unsubscribe from one > and then subscribe to the other. If you > want messages to stop, you should simply unsubscribe. > > Send instant messages to your online friends http://au.messenger.yahoo.com

Hi Norman Thank you for your reply to my post. You have found my problem - I do not know his parents. I have not found his 1st marriage to Elizabeth before c1861 or the 2nd to Jennet (any of 8 spellings) Mary Ann Bell in Hoxton London before c1871. He should have been with his parents in 1841 aged 9 but I have not found an entry in the Middleton area, although they might have moved to London but I am a bit reluctant to start that search after an earlier long and fruitless search of c71 only solved by the arrival of the online index. The other possibility is a baptism but I still have to make a visit to look for one. Can anyone advise where I should look for a Rhodes Baptism. Sorry but the other names you give to not link to any in my tree at present David ----- Original Message ----- > Hello David, > Who were the parents of your James HEYWOOD.? > I have a James HEYWOOD, (father, William, mother, Ann TAYLOR), who married > a > Mary Hannah CHEETHAM in St. Mary`s, Prestwich in 1861. > The 1st. born, Mary Ann HEYWOOD married a Richard VERITY IN 1883. > The VERITY`s are my family line. > Norm. > ----- Original Message ----- >> I wonder if anyone can help with tracing my difficult gt grandfather and > his roots. >> >> >From the census data, James HEYWOOD was born abt 1832 in Middleton >> >(c1861 > London), Rhodes (Middlesex, sic, in c1871 London) and Rhodes when he was > Lodging in Middleton in c1881 with his second London born wife and their 3 > children still in London. He is variously described as a Machine printer > on > calico, colour printer and commercial traveller etc. His first wife in > the > 1861 census was 10 years older than him, born Goodwood Sussex and also > described as 'Do' ie a machine printer on calico. I have assumed he > trained > in Rhodes/ Middleton before moving to London but have not found him in the > 1841 & 1851 cd's but many sheets are unreadable, or in the transcribed > damaged pages. Nor have I found either marriage or a death for his first > wife before his second marriage by the time of the 1871 census. He named > my > grandfather Henry Halliwell (various spellings) Heywood and his sister > Florence Seelig Heywood, two interesting second names. >> >> Any help or advice would be very gratefully received >> >> David >> Fishguard Pembs