This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: goldenscaler72 Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.britisles.england.lan.general/13435.3/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Hi Jim..My father died ..Earl Alexander Merzanis on apr 9th of this yer..we want to do a marker for him and also put Esther Jane Peers death date but we do not know it..we only know she was born in 1885..Would you know her death date? I think it was december 1954 but not sure..Please could you email it to me asap so that we can put it on my dads marker as he is buried with his mom? Thankyou Sue Merzanis Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board. <br>

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: Rline21 Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.britisles.england.lan.general/49094.4.1.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Also Roseanne and Robert were illiterate and Margaret's birth was registered as Hore instead of Orr.Also her brother Robert was the same. Regards, Robert Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board. <br>

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: Rline21 Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.britisles.england.lan.general/49094.4.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Margaret Orr was born Oct 1, 1881. Baptised )Oct. 10 1881.at St.Augustine's Liverpool. Married James Mulvaney 20 Sept. 1900 at St. Augustine's. Take a look at my tree. Regards, Robert Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board. <br>

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: jamesridin Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.britisles.england.lan.general/49094.4/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Hi Mark Margaret Orr married James Mulvaney Liverpool Registry Office 1900. unable to find her Birth regards James Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board. <br>

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: CowperHP4 Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.britisles.england.lan.general/51419.3.1.1.1.3/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Going through the birth registers for Prescot, it appears that there were two distinct William and Catherine Scarisbrick couples. One couple were parents of Richard HEATON Scarisbrick, born 1800, and the father William was a butcher by occupation (he is also listed as a butcher in Eccleston Street, Prescot in trade directories of 1818 and 1824):- LAN OPC:Baptism: 29 Aug 1800 St Mary the Virgin, Prescot, Lancashire, England Richard Heaton Scarisbrick - Son of William Scarisbrick & Cathn. Born: 7 Jul Abode: Eccleston Occupation: Butcher Register: Baptisms 1766 - 1809, Page 157, Entry 30 Source: LDS Film 1657583 However, Richard EATON Scarisbrick (who later married Elizabeth Bacon) was part of a different family, born 8 July 1797 and his father's occupation is "Farmer", as it is also listed for his three daughters, Mary, Margaret, and Ellen Vernon. In his application for a special marriage licence in the Bishop of Cheshire transcripts (1796), William Scarisbrick is described as a widower. I believe that Cicely McMurray (mother of Catharine Eaton) was born 31 Dec 1739 (predeceased by a sister also called Cicely), baptised 15 Jan 1740 Liverpool St Nicholas, a daughter of Henry McMurray (or variations of the name). Henry was baptised 6 Jan 1697 in Liverpool St Nicholas, son of Andrew McMurray, Maltster. Variations of the McMurray family name spelling in various Liverpool parish registers are: Maccmury, Machmory, Mackmorrow, Mackmorry, Mackmory, Mackmurrey, Mackmurry, Mackmury, Macmorah, Macmorrah, Macmorry, Macmorry, Macmury, Mcmury, Mucmury Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board. <br>

Lynne Thanks for the update ......'copasetic"  !! - what an unusual word, that I haven't come across before - I had to check online - Wikipedia gives it as almost exclusive North American usage, and (strangely) not to be considered as slang Regards Stephen Thwaite in NZ //// On Saturday, 28 June 2014 12:55 AM, Lynne <lklein@mindspring.com> wrote: Hello everyone We're baaaaaaaack! As you may have noticed, messages have started flowing on RootsWeb mailing lists following the distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack on Ancestry.  The Help Desk personnel have not posted a status message on the Help page (http://rootsweb.custhelp.com/) nor has staff let administrators know what's going on with the mailing lists, so we don't know what has happened with messages that were sent to the lists but not delivered over the last week and a half.  Am keeping my fingers crossed that messages that went astray during the outage will eventually be distributed. Until we know that everything is copasetic, it would be wise to keep copies of messages you send to the lists in your email Sent folder and double-check that the messages actually reached the list by checking that you received list copies or that there's copies in the list's archives. Thanks for your patience.  Happy researching! Lynne list admin. :-+-: :-+-: :-+-: :-+-: :-+-: :-+-: :-+-: Buy or sell family research items on the GEN-MAT-UKI mailing list.  No fees!  The list's administrator can be contacted at LancsGen-admin@rootsweb.com :-+-: :-+-: :-+-: :-+-: :-+-: :-+-: :-+-: ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to LANCSGEN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

The Bolton News has published four photographs of Bolton taken from the air in 1927, 1947, and 1949. Interesting to see how Bolton has changed through the years. See http://www.theboltonnews.co.uk/news/11303260.4_historic_photos_of_Bolton_from_the_air_that_show_how_much_the_town_has_changed/?ref=mr or http://tinyurl.com/oz4woxc for the story and photos. Lynne

Possibly of interest to some of you: >From the Bolton News (http://www.theboltonnews.co.uk/news/bolton/11296177.Family_reunited_with_long_lost_war_letters/?ref=eb) - 'A FAMILY is to be reunited with letters written by their war medic grandfather after an appeal in The Bolton News. 'Dr David Marcus HANSON's relatives were surprised — but delighted — to discover Graeme KNOTT, from Farnworth, had inherited the bundle of about 28 letters from his father Robert and wants to return them to the surviving members of Dr HANSON's family. 'They were written between 1913 and 1922, many detailing his time serving on the frontline in World War One. 'Dr HANSON's granddaughter, Rosemary RICHARDSON, who grew up in Halliwell and now lives in Bath, said: "It was a total surprise. '"I knew he had served in World War One, I've actually got his silver hip flask which says RAMC (Royal Army Medical Corps). '"I did not know these letters existed. Certainly my mum did not have any letters." 'Dr HANSON was born in County Wicklow, Ireland, in August 1887 before moving to London and then Bolton, in 1913, as assistant to Dr RICE, who had a practice in Daubhill. 'He later set up his own surgery at 509 to 511 Halliwell Road. 'Mrs RICHARDSON, a mother-of-four, who lived in Ivy Road until she was aged 19, said: "I think he died when I was eight or nine. '"I have often thought about what he did in the war. '"I have got a bronze bullet that's been made into a letter opener and it says The Somme on it so I know he was there. '"He never talked about it, as far as I know. It must have been very difficult." 'Dr HANSON and his wife Isabel had one son, also called David, who had three children including Mrs RICHARDSON. 'Her brother David, aged 57, who lives in Leamington Spa, said: "There's a church window dedicated to him from the people of Halliwell because he gave a lifetime of care. '"When I was a boy, people used to stop me in the street and say, you're Dr HANSON'S grandson. '"He came to the town to develop his experience as medic. He never left, he felt a sense of duty." 'For the majority of his patients in Bolton, the 1920s were a time of grinding hardship and he relied upon neighbours to tell him when the sick, already in debt to him, were too proud to call him again. 'He died on Good Friday morning, 1964, and his patients put a memorial window in St Paul's Church. 'Father-of-two Mr HANSON is planning a visit to Bolton to collect the letters.' Lynne

Hello everyone We're baaaaaaaack! As you may have noticed, messages have started flowing on RootsWeb mailing lists following the distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack on Ancestry. The Help Desk personnel have not posted a status message on the Help page (http://rootsweb.custhelp.com/) nor has staff let administrators know what's going on with the mailing lists, so we don't know what has happened with messages that were sent to the lists but not delivered over the last week and a half. Am keeping my fingers crossed that messages that went astray during the outage will eventually be distributed. Until we know that everything is copasetic, it would be wise to keep copies of messages you send to the lists in your email Sent folder and double-check that the messages actually reached the list by checking that you received list copies or that there's copies in the list's archives. Thanks for your patience. Happy researching! Lynne list admin.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: Rline21 Surnames: Mulvaney, Orr Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.britisles.england.lan.general/49094.3/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Margaret Mulvaney -Orr was my great Aunt my Grandads sister. I don't know if you found what you were looking for, but if you havent take a look at my tree. Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board. <br>

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: peterbarnes35 Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.britisles.england.lan.general/1896.3033.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: I would also add, that Betty Nutter, is probably not one of the Nutters, from Whalley, or the Newchurch in Pendle. There is also a Newchurch in the Rossendale Valley, which possibly comes in the Hasingden area. In the 1841 and 1851 census, Betty's birth place is given as Haslingden. And this i believe this is the St Nicholas, church, in Newchurch Haslingden. And if this is the Betty Nutter, who Henry, born 1783 married, is the from St Nicholas, then her father was a William Nutter, and her mother was a Margret Lord. Whether this Betty Nutter, is related to the Nutters of Pendle, i'm not sure. But there is a possibility. Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board. <br>

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: lambuisman Surnames: FITZPATRICK, SHERIDAN, LUCAS Classification: marriage Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.britisles.england.lan.general/52807.2.1.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: This must be Josephs marriage: Joseph Fitzpatrick and Mary Ann O'Brien 16 Oct 1882, St Joseph Liverpool His parents Joseph and Birgitta (Bridget) Fitzpatrick (Liverpool, England, Catholic Marriages, 1754-1921) A pity it doesn't give the mothers maiden name. Maybe she had married a Joseph Fitzpatrick, who left her, and when John was baptized the priest knew that, and he decided John's surname should be Fitzpatrick. His parents chose to ignore it. Registering the birth they didn't mention that marriage, and she used the name of the childs father. No problem at all, they broke no law, and John got the name of his father. I couldn't find that 1871 census record. Was that in Liverpool? When and where was Mary Ann born? Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board. <br>

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: Trilliam5818 Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.britisles.england.lan.general/52414.4.5/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Hi there. Larry I believe we have met. I used to live in Lansing but now live in Commerce Michigan. I have done the Rawsthorne tree extensively. Have it now back to 1500. I was trying to find information on Thomas Charles Rawsthorne son Thomas Charles . He died and his two children as well very young. He did have two grandchildren who I was hoping would respond. I go to church at Ann Rawsthorne Magee church in Walled Lake so I see Ed and Mary Lou often. I"ve also done quite a bit of research of your great grandmother family and found some connections still in England. Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board. <br>

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This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: keltandzac Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.britisles.england.lan.general/5676.7029.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Hello Lorraine nason I have just read your message regarding your gran Sarah Almond. My great grandfather was her brother William. I have had difficulty in finding anything about his past until I saw you message. My grandfather William was the one killed by the barrel of beer. He married Annie Jane Pearson Antrobus. William and Sarah's father was another William as you know and his parents were Timothy Almond and Elizabeth Maddock. Their parents were Timothy Almond and Ralph Maddock. My family still live in Manchester. I hope to hear from you. Regards Elizabeth Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board. <br>

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: infosending1 Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.britisles.england.lan.general/51808.2/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Well regardless of who was born where in this particular instance, a point worth bearing in mind with Liverpool birth, marriage, and death registrations, is that there were several registration districts within Liverpool over the years, and some of them didn't have Liverpool in their names, such as West Derby, Toxteth Park, Sefton and Sefton South, Bootle, Halton, Liverpool and Liverpool North or South. So if the name isn't too common, and especially if the approximate date range is known, if one has access to an appropriate set of BMD registration records, the easiest and most reliable way to find Liverpool BMD registration records, is usually to search for records in Lancashire and then try to spot any BMD records that contain any of the names of the various Liverpool registration districts. Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board. <br>

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: elial2 Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.britisles.england.lan.general/52807.2.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Thanks for the replies. Father's name on birth certificate is Reuben Lucas and mother's is Bridget Lucas formerly Sheridan. I can't find any trace of John for the 1881 census. In 1891, he is listed as John Lucas living with his mother Bridget Lucas (as you say, at this point Reuben is married to Ellen Seddon). They are living in the same house as Joseph Fitzpatrick and family although as a different household (Back Canterbury Street). It was thought within our family that John and Joseph were brothers and one of my family members remembers one of Joseph's daughters/grandchildren. On the 1871 census, Bridget Sheridan was living with the Cullen family and (presumably) her children Joseph and Mary Ann Sheridan. This could be Joseph Fitzpatrick. So there's a possibility she married a Fitzpatrick at some point but all the name changes are v confusing. Ideally I'd like to get hold of Joseph's birth certificate. Looks like he may have been born in Dublin in 1859. I don't know if it's possible to get a certificate as it's before registration started. Any ideas? Thanks Alison Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board. <br>

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: jfpfam Surnames: BATE, DAWSON Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.britisles.england.lan.general/52808/mb.ashx Message Board Post: My father is searching for his sister JEAN BATE, born on 3 July 1925 in Manley, near Frodsham, in the County of Lancaster. (Registration District - Runcorn). Both Dad and JEAN shared the same parents: Mother - MARJORIE BATE whose family owned Ford Farm, Hargrave, near Tarporley, Cheshire. Father - Baden Leslie Dawson, a labourer at the farm. Following her birth, JEAN was given up for adoption. In those days, it might have been as informal arrangement, as was my father's own 'adoption'. Jean was possibly taken in by a Baptist family, in Cheshire or Lancashire. As a result of another family bringing her up, JEAN may have had her first and surname changed. Does anyone have a granny or aunt who might be my father's sister? With Dad now in his late 80's, I would love to hear from you if you have any information, no matter how small. Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board. <br>

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: Dick_Hazen Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.britisles.england.lan.general/7866.2.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Hi Natalie, So very nice to meet another Hindle descendant on this board. I have read in several locations that William was a prominent physician, but I'm afraid I have a real dearth of information about that generation of the Hindles beyond their addresses in the Providence area (they are listed in numerous city directories) and the fact that Adam was a machinist, a trade that was also followed by my grandfather, Adam Jr. I do have some newspaper clippings regarding the branch of the family that moved to South Hadley. Additionally I have some photos of the Hindles from around 1924, but unfortunately nobody in the pictures is identified. If you'd care to PM me I'd be happy to share this information with you. I'm also trying to gain some insight into why the Hindles emigrated to New England when they did (and when Robert emigrated since he did not arrive on the ship with the rest of his family in 1870), and would be most grateful for any light you might be able to shed. Best regards, Dick Hazen Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board. <br>

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: carobradford Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.britisles.england.lan.general/52807.2/mb.ashx Message Board Post: >From the baptism record, It is fairly clear that John was born illegitimate. Reuben was single in the 1881 census and a bachelor in 1884 when he married Ellen SEDDON in 1884. However, the birth registration index shows John as LUCAS, suggesting that either the parents pretended to be married or Reuben attended the registration, admitted paternity and signed the register. As Antony Marr says, the details on the birth certificate may be revealing. The baptism record actually says "known as Fitzpatrick", not "to be known as...". I wonder whether it had already been arranged for the baby to be taken in by a FITZPATRICK family. I cannot find him reliably in the census until 1911. Have you found him as a child? I see John rather fudged the issue of his father when he married Ellen PAGE by naming him as "Ruben Fitzpatrick". He also seems to have taken a couple of years off his age, both at his marriage and in the 1911 census. Caroline Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board. <br>