Hi Christine and David , looking for burial of Ralph TAYLOR b 1804 , mar Sally/Sarah WHITWORTH m 1824 , St Chad , Rochdale . died 3 Jan 1852 , Shawforth and Spotland , His dau Jane TAYLOR mar Abraham BROWN , b Derbyshire . Miles TAYLOR ( brother ) present at death . Their son Alfred mar Sarah Alice HEROD ( HERROD ) Other names linked to these , Ralphs parents James TAYLOR and Sarah FLETCHER . My husband John BROWN was b Heywood as was his father Edward BROWN and grfather Alfred BROWN . Hoping in finding Ralph's grave possibly find other family . Thank you for your interest , thank you David for OPC site , I use this often . Fortunately St Chad records have been loaded but now have a problem in that WHITWORTH is the surname of my husbands mother , she was b Bolton and FLETCHER also appears in both sides of his family . Any help much appreciated . kind regards Shirley Brown NZ -----Original Message----- From: Christine Shelmerdine Sent: Thursday, May 29, 2014 8:50 PM To: lancsgen@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [LAN] Lancs Cemetery who are you looking for, I live very close to Rochdale Christine On 29 May 2014 02:49, David Wightmore <dvdwmore@telus.net> wrote: > Hi Shirley, > > Go to the lan-opc.org.uk site and look up Rochdale in the index. Both > Whitworth and Spotland are mentioned. Good luck with your searches... > > hth > > David > > > > > :-+-: :-+-: :-+-: :-+-: :-+-: :-+-: :-+-: > > 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 > -- Christine Shelmerdine :-+-: :-+-: :-+-: :-+-: :-+-: :-+-: :-+-: 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

Dear Shirley, The Memorial Inscriptions of Littleborough (Holy Trinity) may be found online on the Lancs OPC site. You will find your man "Ralph Taylor" of Whitelees, who died 3rd Jan 1852, aged 47, and you will find his wife Sarah, who died 15 Mar 1874, aged 64. If you go to the, "Main" opc page http://www.lan-opc.org.uk/ Then ... Select "Parishes in Lancashire".... "Littleborough"..... "Churches"... Select link for (1) "Holy Trinity"... Then select "MIs" on the left of the page... Then select either "MI's" OR "Surname Index" (suggested) You will then find Ralph Taylor at Grave 420. Of possible additional interest is Grave 397, that of a James Taylor also of Whitelees, who died in 1825, aged 58. If your search the full "Results" page for "Whitelees", and variants including say "White lees", other names will be found, including Fletcher, Howarth, & Hurst, and Stott Best Wishes Peter in Sydney Trying to find burial for a relative , died Jan 1852 - Shawforth in > Spotland ? > . Death cert. entry states - Reg. Dist Rochdale , Sub |Dist . > Whitworth and Brandwood . County of Lancaster . > > Any suggestion please as to where he might be buried . > > Shirley NZ >

Hi Looking for any information on what may have happened to my husband's great aunt, Alice Dickinson. Alice was born 27 Nov 1869 to Alfred Dickinson and Elizabeth Ward. On 17 Apr 1900 she married Welshman Daniel Herbert Williams at the Congregational Church at Prescot. She then had a son John Alfred Herbert Williams on 12 May 1901. At this point her trail goes cold. In 1911 her husband, Daniel, married Myfanwy Williams in St Asaph and the newly married couple, with John Alfred Herbert Williams, appear on the 1911 census with Myfanwy's mother in St Asaph. I know John Alfred Herbert Williams marries and dies in South Africa. Main problem is the surname Williams...I cannot identify a death for Alice in the Prescot area between 1901 and 1911. Does anyone know what happened? Dorri

Hello Jan; send for her birth record  (See following) this will give her parents name , address and fathers occupation. The record might help you locate her parents in the 1911 census. The reference number is what you use when ordering the certificate Regards Mike Morris Toronto Canada Lancashire Birth indexes for the years: 1916 Surname Forename(s) Sub-District Registers At Mother's Maiden Name Reference LIVSEY Barbara Longton Preston SMALL LONG/34/16   From: Janis Sheard <jsheard2@bigpond.com> >To: LANCSGEN@rootsweb.com >Sent: Friday, May 30, 2014 8:53:12 AM > >I am helping a friend trace his grandmother.  She was born Barbara Livsey in 1916 in Preston Lancashire. > >She married in th 1940's in England.  We would like to find out anything else about her.  Maybe other relatives.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: paulstanislas007 Surnames: Fernyhough Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.britisles.england.lan.general/8734.3.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: My great grandmother and my grandfather lived at Catterick Hall in the late 1880's and I have a photograph of the family outside a large glass conservatory. The family name is Fernyhough,yet they are not mentioned as owners, so I assume they rented the Hall. I should be interested in any further information on the property or a picture of the Hall. I understand it was used as a convalescent home during WW1 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: farmersoldierpreacherthief Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.britisles.england.lan.general/52781.1.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Antony - thanks for the tip! 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: Sumi48 Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.britisles.england.lan.general/52783.2/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Why the uncertainty re his father's name? Don't Aussie certificates give parents names? He was in his 30s when he went to Australia so he may have been starting a new life in Australia ....may even have left a wife and family behind and changed a few facts about himself as my grandfather did. Nothing obvious coming up searching in Lancashire but found this Manchester record but no details of age of this Robert. The charge was wounding with intent to cause grievous bodily harm. England & Wales, Criminal Registers, 1791-1892 about Robert Rowley Name: Robert Rowley Date of Trial: 30 Nov 1872 Trial Year: 1872 Location of Trial: Lancashire, England Sentence: Acquittal Crime: See Image Date of Execution or Release: See Image 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: robmoff Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.britisles.england.lan.general/52785.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Here are a few to be going on with:-- Births Mar 1860 ________________________________________ SEDDON John Ormskirk 8b 528 Births Sep 1861 ________________________________________ SEDDON Jane Ormskirk 8b 515 Births Sep 1863 ________________________________________ SEDDON James Ormskirk 8b 575 Deaths Dec 1864 ________________________________________ Seddon James Ormskirk 8b 624 Seddon Jane Ormskirk 8b 625 Seddon John Ormskirk 8b 625 Births Dec 1865 ________________________________________ Seddon Elizabeth Ann Ormskirk 8b 652 Deaths Dec 1870 ________________________________________ Seddon Elizabeth Ann 5 Ormskirk 8b 631 Births Dec 1874 ________________________________________ Sutton Joseph Young Ormskirk 8b 738 Births Sep 1876 ________________________________________ SEDDON Peter Ormskirk 8b 742 These are from FreeBMD (just look for freebmd online). Ancestry uses the FreeBMD records pre 1916 (after all they did help to fund the project) BUT after they made their own database BMD continued to add records. Your experience is not unique! Rob 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: carole_anne48 Surnames: Seddon Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.britisles.england.lan.general/52785/mb.ashx Message Board Post: I am researching my great grand father's family (he was Joseph Seddon) who came from Bickerstaffe. I have an original baptism certificate for July 1874 but can't find any record of his birth. I'm having the same problem for his siblings, John (1860-64), Jane (1861-64), James (1863-64), Elizabeth Ann (1865-70), John 1868), James (1869), Elizabeth Ann (1872) & Peter (1876). I am having the same problem with death certificates for the first 4 siblings - I have found their burial records but there appears to be no trace of their deaths being registered. Does anyone have any idea why this would be? I would like to be able to confirm their parents' details which I hope will be on these records. I know their names were John & Jane, but these are so common in this area so I'd like as much info as possible to be sure. Many thanks for any help... 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>

Trying to find burial for a relative , died Jan 1852 - Shawforth in Spotland ‘ . Death cert. entry states - Reg. Dist Rochdale , Sub |Dist . Whitworth and Brandwood . County of Lancaster . Any suggestion please as to where he might be buried . Shirley NZ

who are you looking for, I live very close to Rochdale Christine On 29 May 2014 02:49, David Wightmore <dvdwmore@telus.net> wrote: > Hi Shirley, > > Go to the lan-opc.org.uk site and look up Rochdale in the index. Both > Whitworth and Spotland are mentioned. Good luck with your searches... > > hth > > David > > > > > :-+-: :-+-: :-+-: :-+-: :-+-: :-+-: :-+-: > > 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 > -- Christine Shelmerdine

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: c_yates10 Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.britisles.england.lan.general/15069.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Hi margaret I am the grandaughter of charles william burton I have papers and photos Email me, c.yates@ntlworld.com Carol 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>

Hi Shirley, Go to the lan-opc.org.uk site and look up Rochdale in the index. Both Whitworth and Spotland are mentioned. Good luck with your searches... hth David

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/52779.3/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Rent book. 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: patbrown62 Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.britisles.england.lan.general/52777.4.2.1.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Another excellent idea! Thank you very much. Patricia 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: Dickinson_Chris Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.britisles.england.lan.general/52777.4.2.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Hi Patricia The link contains the whole pamphlet, so there is no need to look further. It sounds as though you really have no idea of what part of the country Nicholas came from. Very much serendipity as to whether you find him. On the whole, it's probably fair to say that substantial migration to the colonies from the North West was a generation or two after that from the eastern parts of England, so it might be worth exhausting the Norfolk Nicholas route before embarking on a Lancashire hunt. You could, of course, search the Norfolk Prot. Returns to see whether Nicholas jnr was still there in 1641/2. If I were you I would do a quick study to find out what surnames there were in his local area in Norfolk, and then look up to see whether there is any probate material for them. You never know, you might get a reference in a will to 'my son-in-law Nicholas Browne, now overseas.', which would at least get you a step further. Chris 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>

Thank you for that, Fiona. That gives me a starting point. I went onto the National Archives site last night and found some quite interesting information, which at least ties the area of WILCOCK Cottage to where WILCOCK House used to be. I will get onto the Preston Archives to see what information I can find there, and no, I don't belong to the Lancashire Family History and Heraldry Soc. I'm not quite sure what it does. Thank you again for your help. Sylvia Sent from my iPad > On 27 May 2014, at 7:46 pm, "Fiona Hall" <fiona.j.hall@btopenworld.com> wrote: > > Hi Sylvia > > The Lancashire Archives at Preston probably do have deeds and papers regarding the property – you can contact them to ask http://www.lancashire.gov.uk/corporate/web/?siteid=4528&pageid=30539&e=e > > If any mention of it occurs anywhere in any archives you can search for it at A2A - http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/a2a/ > > And finally – are you a member of the Lancashire Family History and Heraldry Society? If so – don’t forget Helping Hands! > > Fiona

The Bolton branch of the Manchester & Lancashire Family History Society (MLFHS) (http://www.mlfhs.org.uk/Bolton/) will hold its next meeting Wednesday June 4th at 7.30pm. Brenda Hustler, from the Irish Branch of the MLFHS, will be presenting some advice about how to research Irish ancestors. She is a specialist in this difficult area and will illustrate her talk with the use of some of her own examples. The meeting will be at the usual venue of Bolton Cricket Club, Green Lane, Farnworth, BL3 2JB. All welcome. There is a nominal charge for non MLFHS members. A Help Desk will be available afterwards. Enquiries to Barbara Owen Secretary on 01204 309515. Please note there is now a genealogy magazine recycle programme, so please bring your old unwanted magazines to be passed to or exchanged with others. Nothing will be wasted. Please allow time for the free parking as the Rounders teams are now competing and there is overflow on to the road.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: jessiebeamer Surnames: Chapman Classification: biography Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.britisles.england.lan.general/52784.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Hello Matt, 549615 Robert Chapman, based at RAF Tengah on Singapore Island was held POW at Singapore, Java, Hokkaido (Hakadate) and Kyushu (Yawata). (from the book 'Unsung Heroes of the Royal Air Force, the Far East Prisoners of War' by L and P Stubbs) He was very likely captured following the Japanese invasion of Singapore in February 1942. You may find more information at http://www.cofepow.org.uk/ Also, how to request records of service at:- http://www.veterans-uk.info/service_records/service_records.html Good luck. 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: patbrown62 Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.britisles.england.lan.general/52777.4.2/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Hi Chris, Thank you for your information about the Protestation Returns, and that some exist for Lancashire. I have read quite a few wills, though no Probate records, and I have transcribed (almost all of) a 1613 5-page Will from Norfolk. That Nicholas Browne had a son Nicholas, though the son did not appear further in the PRs, so I have no proof he would be "mine".. I will start a search for the Book you suggested. Thank you so much for your considerable assistance. Patricia 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>