Hi, I have posted about my great grandmother Mary Ann Hirst before but thought I'd have another go. She was born on the 19th June 1856 and was the eldest child of John Hirst and Sarah Ann Slane. She married my great grandfather Thomas Gornall in 1873 ......... Thomas Gornall died in 1890 aged 38 and by 1901 Mary Ann had moved back to Newcastle.. She was then living in Grey Street next door to her sister Sarah Hirst who had married William Walton in 1878. ..... Sarah died not long after the 1901 census and in 1907 her husband William Walton married my great grandmother Mary Ann Gornall. .....What I would like to know is what then happened to my great grandmother ...I'm guessing that she lived the rest of her life in Newcastle but I don't know when she died as there are so many Sarah Waltons... She appears to have still been alive in 1914 when her yougest daughter Sophia Gornall married John C Lawton as she is mentioned in that couple's marriage notice.. Any contact with her first or second family would be most welcome.. Yours John Ayton Dear John, I do take it you are looking for Mary Ann Walton, as you have "I don't know when she died as there are so many Sarah Walton's"? Anyway if it is Mary Ann Walton, you do know that in 1911 her husband William is in the Workhouse. And a William Walton aged 60 died in Sept. Qtr.1916. I did check for a death of Mary Ann Walton & none of them were the correct age at death. Then I found a Mary Ann Walton marrying a James W Kennedy in June Qtr. 1916? Yes I know William was still alive, so it could be bigamy. But I found a Mary Ann Kennedy who died in June quarter 1937 aged 82 years? Could this be your Great Grandmother? John Walker, Newcastle upon Tyne [email protected] http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~littleblobby/ http://www.freewebs.com/littleblobby/

Hi John, thanks for the reply.. the William Walton you found in the workhouse wasn't right. I have them all together at 72Grey St. In 1911. The indexing was strange for the family but I found it eventually.. The form was originally written with initials. M.a.Walton etc.. William Walton was 53in 1911. I hadnt found the marriage in 1916 so that may well be worth investigating.John Sent from my iPad On 26 Mar 2013, at 16:57, "John Gallon" <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, I have posted about my great grandmother Mary Ann Hirst before but > thought I'd have another go. She was born on the 19th June 1856 and was the > eldest child of John Hirst and Sarah Ann Slane. She married my great > grandfather Thomas Gornall in 1873 ......... Thomas Gornall died in 1890 > aged 38 and by 1901 Mary Ann had moved back to Newcastle.. She was then > living in Grey Street next door to her sister Sarah Hirst who had married > William Walton in 1878. ..... Sarah died not long after the 1901 census and > in 1907 her husband William Walton married my great grandmother Mary Ann > Gornall. .....What I would like to know is what then happened to my great > grandmother ...I'm guessing that she lived the rest of her life in Newcastle > but I don't know when she died as there are so many Sarah Waltons... She > appears to have still been alive in 1914 when her yougest daughter Sophia > Gornall married John C Lawton as she is mentioned in that couple's marriage > notice.. Any contact with her first or second family would be most welcome.. > Yours John Ayton > > Dear John, > > I do take it you are looking for Mary Ann Walton, as you have "I don't know > when she died as there are so many Sarah Walton's"? > > Anyway if it is Mary Ann Walton, you do know that in 1911 her husband > William is in the Workhouse. And a William Walton aged 60 died in Sept. > Qtr.1916. I did check for a death of Mary Ann Walton & none of them were the > correct age at death. > > Then I found a Mary Ann Walton marrying a James W Kennedy in June Qtr. 1916? > Yes I know William was still alive, so it could be bigamy. But I found a > Mary Ann Kennedy who died in June quarter 1937 aged 82 years? Could this be > your Great Grandmother? > > > John > Walker, Newcastle upon Tyne > [email protected] > http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~littleblobby/ > http://www.freewebs.com/littleblobby/ > > .. > Please remember to snip most of the earlier message before you post any reply...... Thank you! > > The NORTHUMBRIA FAQ page is located at http://www.bpears.org.uk/NorthumbriaFAQ/ > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message