On 26/10/15 00:48, Steve Hayes wrote: > One of my most puzzling ones was a gg grandfather, whose family came > from the Isle of Axholme. He lived in Hull, got married in Bath, and > Came to Natal within a month of getting married. I wondered how he > came to meet his wife, as Hull and Bath seem quite far apart. The Bath > family were from Belfast, and seem to have been from quite settled > farmers in Ballynure before the 19th century, when they scattered to > Quebec, Mauritius, Bath and Durban. > Hull was an major port and trading centre. It's not unusual for inhabitants of trading centres to have far-flung connections. Maybe Bristol would have been the common meeting ground. -- Hotmail is my spam bin. Real address is ianng at austonley org uk

On 26/10/2015 10:29, Ian Goddard wrote: > On 26/10/15 00:48, Steve Hayes wrote: >> One of my most puzzling ones was a gg grandfather, whose family came >> from the Isle of Axholme. He lived in Hull, got married in Bath, and >> Came to Natal within a month of getting married. I wondered how he >> came to meet his wife, as Hull and Bath seem quite far apart. The Bath >> family were from Belfast, and seem to have been from quite settled >> farmers in Ballynure before the 19th century, when they scattered to >> Quebec, Mauritius, Bath and Durban. >> > > Hull was an major port and trading centre. It's not unusual for > inhabitants of trading centres to have far-flung connections. Maybe > Bristol would have been the common meeting ground. > I found the link for my gg-grand parents quite fortuitiously, he was a barrister's clerk in London (Middle Temple) and she was the daughter of a wine & spirits merchant in York. The barrister was a chap called John Cowling who worked the northern circuit which included York. I discovered it because my gg-grandfather was missing from home in one of the censuses and turned up in the same digs as his employer in Liverpool. -- Graeme Wall This account not read, substitute trains for rail.

> >> One of my most puzzling ones was a gg grandfather, whose family came > >> from the Isle of Axholme. He lived in Hull, got married in Bath, and > >> Came to Natal within a month of getting married. I wondered how he > >> came to meet his wife, as Hull and Bath seem quite far apart. The Bath > >> family were from Belfast, and seem to have been from quite settled > >> farmers in Ballynure before the 19th century, when they scattered to > >> Quebec, Mauritius, Bath and Durban. > >> > > > > Hull was an major port and trading centre. It's not unusual for > > inhabitants of trading centres to have far-flung connections. Maybe > > Bristol would have been the common meeting ground. Good point. Hull was also home to a number of @Hamburg merchants' so you might get the odd Anglo-German marriage. And Basth was a spa town, where vaguely ill people from all over the place went to achieve a cure -if they could afford it. There are surpsising numbers of families with roots in Northumberland and Durham who flee to Bath for the winter. Just possibly, your man chased a local girl whose family were 'taking the waters' originally, but changed his mind when the irish lass met his eye. > > > > I found the link for my gg-grand parents quite fortuitiously, he was a > barrister's clerk in London (Middle Temple) and she was the daughter of > a wine & spirits merchant in York. The barrister was a chap called John > Cowling who worked the northern circuit which included York. I > discovered it because my gg-grandfather was missing from home in one of > the censuses and turned up in the same digs as his employer in Liverpool. Barristers got around everywhere. I am still chasing the totally unsuitable marriage of a barrister, James O Griffits, (sic) later a judge, to an East End girl in the 1850s. Nowhere in London, apparently, could be anywhere in the country (and maybe recorded as Griffith/s. Am beginning to wonder if it happened (and what happened to her after having two children. He didn't marry again (to a rich girl) till he was pushing 60. I do hope Mrs G No 1 was dead by then. EVE > > -- > Graeme Wall > This account not read, substitute trains for rail. > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to GENBRIT-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message Author of The McLaughlin Guides for Family Historians Secretary, Bucks Genealogical Society