> > >Amongst our family "papers" is a marriage certificate between Mary EACHWORTH & John BARNES in 1868 (not researching BARNES at this point). They are my great grandparents and from that certificate and facts known to me about Mary I now have obtained copies of the birth certificates of Mary, born in Blackburn Jan. 15, 1849, and her brother William, born in Cuerden March 30, 1846, however the names are shown as EATESWORTH in both cases, not EACHWORTH. I wish to take it back further and find the marriage certificate between Mary & William's father Thomas EATESWORTH and their mother Agnes LAW(E) or perhaps birth certificates for Thomas and Agnes (or would that be jumping too soon)? My research which began as EACHWORTH is now EATESWORTH and I am thinking that this name is not rock solid either and could be leading to EASTWOOD or EDGEWORTH, for instance. Where do I go from here with look ups? > Hi Margaret, I found the following through my Ancestry.com subscription. I don't have much to offer as far as searching for a dynamically-changing surname but I did find birth, death and census info on your ancestors from the information you provided. England and Wales, Civil Registration Index: 1837-1983 Description: "On 1 July 1837 a civil registration system for births, marriages and deaths was introduced in England and Wales. Registration was undertaken by civil registrars who reported to the Registrar General at the General Register Office (GRO) in London, now part of the Office for National Statistics (ONS). Copies of anyone's birth, marriage or death certificates can be obtained by the public. They are vital to family historians because of the genealogical information that they include." (Mark D. Herber, Ancestral Trails, Genealogical Publishing Company, Inc., 1998) Since the original birth, marriage and death registers are not open to the public, getting access to the information on one of these certificates is done by first searching the national birth, marriage and death indexes, that have been created by the GRO for this purpose. The indexes for the three events are each divided into quarterly volumes, with the names for each quarter listed alphabetically. Once an entry in one of the indexes is found, you are then able to use that information to order of copy of a death, marriage or birth certificate from the GRO/ONS. The other information that can be obtained from the index includes: year, record type, quarter (March, June, September, and December), district (each county in England and Wales was divided up into registration districts), volume, and page number. Note: names were entered into the volume of the quarter in which notification of the event was received, not necessarily the quarter in which the event actually occurred. Extended Description: The massive task of digitising and, making searchable, the names contained in the GRO indexes has been underway for a few years now. This database is made available to Ancestry.com users, courtesy of the volunteers of the FreeBMD organization. The leadership of FreeBMD have organized the permissions and tools necessary to enable hundreds of volunteers to convert to electronic text, and publish online, searchable indexes to the civil registrations in England and Wales. FreeBMD, has already indexed more than 62 million names between the years of 1837 and 1983, and more names continue to be added everyday. Ancestry will add to this database as FreeBMD provides more names. It is estimated that more than 50% of the names between 1837 and 1900 have been indexed. Because of the nature of the index you will note that not all of the fields have been indexed all of the time. Until 1866, most of the indexes were handwritten, making the task of conversion sometimes difficult. Source Information: FreeBMD. England and Wales, Civil Registration Index: 1837-1983 [database online]. Provo, Utah: MyFamily.com, Inc., 2004. Original data: Microfilm and microfiche of the England and Wales, Civil Registration Indexes created by the General Register Office, in London, England. © Crown copyright. Published by permission of the Controller of HMSO and the Office for National Statistics. You must not copy on, transfer or reproduce records without the prior permission of ONS. Database Copyright © 1998-2003 Graham Hart, Ben Laurie, Camilla von Massenbach and David Mayall. ------------------------------------------------------------ Name: Eatesworth, Mary Record Type: Births Quarter: March Year: 1849 District: Blackburn * County: Lancashire Volume: 21 Page: 28 (click to see others on page) *Blackburn Created 1st July 1837. Sub-districts : Billington; Blackburn; Blackburn Northern; Blackburn South Eastern; Blackburn South Western; Darwen; Hawwood; Mellor; Oswaldtwistle; Witton. GRO volumes : XXI (1837-51); 8e (1852-1930). Billington, Blackburn, Church, Clayton le Dale, Clayton le Moors, Darwen, Dinckley, Eccleshill, Great Harwood, Little Harwood, Livesey, Lower Darwen, Mellor, Osbaldeston, Oswaldtwistle, Over Darwen, Pleasington, Ramsgreave, Rishton, Salesbury, Tockholes, Wilpshire, Witton, Yate and Pickup Bank. Registers now divided between Blackburn with Darwen, Hyndburn & Rossendale and Ribble Valley districts. ------------------------------------------------------------- Name: Eatesworth, William Record Type: Births Quarter: June Year: 1846 District: Chorley * County: Lancashire Volume: 21 Page: 449 (click to see others on page) *Chorley Created 1st July 1837. Sub-districts : Brindle; Chorley; Croston; Leyland; Rivington. GRO volumes : XXI (1837-51); 8e (1852-1930). Adlington, Anderton, Anglezarke, Bretherton, Brindle, Charnock Richard, Chorley, Clayton le Woods, Coppull, Croston, Cuerdon, Duxbury, Eccleston, Euxton, Heapey, Heath Charnock, Heskin, Hoghton, Leyland, Mawdesley, Rivington, Ulnes Walton, Welsh Whittle, Wheelton, Whittle le Woods, Withnell. Registers now in Chorley district. ------------------------------------------------------------- Name: Eachworth, Mary Record Type: Marriages Quarter: June Year: 1868 District: Manchester (1837-1924) * County: Lancashire Volume: 8d Page: 599 (click to see others on page) *Manchester Created 1st July 1837. Abolished 1st January 1925 (incorporated into Manchester North district). Sub-districts : Ancoats; Blackley; Central; Cheetham; Deansgate; Failsworth; London Road; Market Street; Newton; Prestwich; St. George. GRO volumes : XX (1837-51); 8d (1852-1924). Beswick (1837-74), Blackley (1837-74), Bradford (1837-74), Cheetham (1837-74), Clayton (1837-74), Crumpsall (1837-74), Failsworth (1837-74), Great Heaton (1837-74), Harpurhey (1837-74), Little Heaton (1837-74), Manchester, Moston (1837-74), Newton (1837-74), Prestwich (1837-74). Registers now divided between Manchester, Oldham, Bury and Bolton districts. ------------------------------------------------------------ Name: Eachworth, William Record Type: Deaths Age at death: 51 Quarter: June Year: 1898 District: Chorlton * County: Lancashire Volume: 8c Page: 456 (click to see others on page) *Chorlton Created 1st July 1837. Abolished 1st January 1925 (renamed Manchester South). Sub-districts : Ardwick; Barton; Chorlton upon Medlock; Didsbury; Hulme; Stretford. GRO volumes : XX (1837-51); 8c (1852-1924). Ardwick, Barton Moss (1837-49), Barton upon Irwell (1837-49), Burnage, Chorlton cum Hardy, Chorlton on Medlock, Davyhulme (1837-49), Didsbury, Flixton (1837-49), Gorton, Hulme, Irlam (1837-49), Levenshulme, Moss Side, Openshaw, Rusholme, Stretford (1837-49), Urmston (1837-49), West Gorton, Withington. Registers now divided between Manchester, Salford and Trafford districts. 1881 England Census <http://www.ancestry.com/search/srrd.asp?rd=db&dbid=7572> Name: William Eachworth Age in 1881: 34 Age months: 0 Estimated birth year: abt 1847 Relationship to head-of-household: Boarder Household: View other family members Family and neighbors: View neighbors Gender: Male Where born: Blackburn, Lancashire, England Address: 1 Magdala St Civil parish: Manchester County/Island: Lancashire Condition as to marriage: Married Occupation: Cotton Spinner Education: View Image Employment status: View Image Source information: RG11/4013 Registration district: Prestwich Sub-registration district: Newton ED, institution, or vessel: 20 Folio: 96 Page: 10 William is living with John and Mary Barnes and their children. He's listed as a boarder rather than brother-in-law. He's also listed as married but there is no wife to be seen on the census record. If you'd like a copy of this census page, let me know! I know this probably doesn't give you any new information. I hope the source info helps further your research, though. Good luck! Regards, Terri McDonald Hauk t.hauk@comcast.net