Yes, Terry, I looked at them at Guild Hall. They do not give Mary's maiden name, nor do they give from where in England Jabez came, which is what I'm trying to figure out. Sarah Parker was my great great grandmother's sister. I have letters she wrote to my great grandmother from St. Petersburg. But thanks for the suggestion. The British Chaplencey records were a great help because Jabez died about a year after Sarah married him and she later married James Thornton in 1838. Before going to the Guild Hall I had been aware only that Sarah had been married to James Thornton. I have been trying to figure out if Sarah went to St. Petersburg to work and met Jabez there, or if she had known Jabez Wilkinson in England and went there to marry him after Mary's death. I'm not sure if in the 1830's a single woman would go to another country by herself to work. DeAnne On 11/27/07, TERRY HOPKIN- SUNDBY <terrysundbya0felan3@hotmail.com> wrote: > > Have you tried the British Chaplencey records, > regards > Terry

Hi you may find them in the St Petersberg records. everyone inthe then Russian capital was registered. Dont forget at that time ordinary Russians needed an internal passport to travel, and foriegners were equaly controlled if not so obviously. A source that might be useful is FEEFHS; Federation of Eastern European Family History Societies at http://feefhs.org whilst mainly for those who have families in Eastern Europe they may well have folk who can perhaps help you as I doudt you read Russian or know where to start AS TO SINGEL WOMEN TRAVELING ALONE AT THAT TIME NEVER FORGET ANNA AND THE KING IS A TRUE STORY!! regards Terry Norway > Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2007 15:01:44 -0600 > From: drosegarden@gmail.com > To: west-riding@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [WRY] Wilkinson Research > > Yes, Terry, I looked at them at Guild Hall. They do not give Mary's > maiden name, nor do they give from where in England Jabez came, which > is what I'm trying to figure out. Sarah Parker was my great great > grandmother's sister. I have letters she wrote to my great > grandmother from St. Petersburg. > > But thanks for the suggestion. The British Chaplencey records were a > great help because Jabez died about a year after Sarah married him and > she later married James Thornton in 1838. Before going to the Guild > Hall I had been aware only that Sarah had been married to James > Thornton. > > I have been trying to figure out if Sarah went to St. Petersburg to > work and met Jabez there, or if she had known Jabez Wilkinson in > England and went there to marry him after Mary's death. I'm not sure > if in the 1830's a single woman would go to another country by herself > to work. > > DeAnne > > On 11/27/07, TERRY HOPKIN- SUNDBY wrote: >> >> Have you tried the British Chaplencey records, >> regards >> Terry > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to WEST-RIDING-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message _________________________________________________________________ Connect to the next generation of MSN Messenger  http://imagine-msn.com/messenger/launch80/default.aspx?locale=en-us&source=wlmailtagline

Hi Terry and list This is a me too thank you for the web site. I have been trying to find out more about what a "Russian Merchant" would be involved with - I have sort of assumed furs and the like - and that site could well help. This man had an office with a number of clerks in St Petersberg mid nineteenth century. As I don't think he would have been the only one there, it follows there was probably quite a group of "ex-pats", and thus at least some of the staff, servants, governesses, nurses etc. would have come from the UK. An explanation for a single woman? Incidentally, I do read Russian! - but modern Russian. I think it was about the time of the Russian Revolution that the Russian (Cyrillic) alphabet lost a number of letters, just to add to the complications of looking at old documents handwritten in a different script as well as language. I have enough trouble with old wills in English <g> Chris Researching H.o.d.g.s.o.n in Dent, R.o.d.g.e.r.s in Wath and the W.e.g.u.e.l.i.n family - Russian merchants On 28/11/2007, TERRY HOPKIN- SUNDBY <terrysundbya0felan3@hotmail.com> wrote: > > Hi > you may find them in the St Petersberg records. everyone inthe then Russian capital was registered. Dont forget at that time ordinary Russians needed an internal passport to travel, and foriegners were equaly controlled if not so obviously. A source that might be useful is FEEFHS; Federation of Eastern European Family History Societies at http://feefhs.org whilst mainly for those who have families in Eastern Europe they may well have folk who can perhaps help you as I doudt you read Russian or know where to start > AS TO SINGEL WOMEN TRAVELING ALONE AT THAT TIME NEVER FORGET ANNA AND THE KING IS A TRUE STORY!! > regards > Terry > Norway