Hello Maggie I have a Selina MALLISON born1 7 Feb 1851 in Ashton Under Lyne, Lancashire, England. Her parents were George and Ann Mallison nee FLYNN. Selina married Joshua TORDOFF 29 October 1868. His parents were John and Tabitha, my great grandparents. Let me know if these details are of interest Best wishes, Don in Sydney ----- Original Message ----- From: <MaggieMole@aol.com> To: <west-riding@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2007 1:24 AM Subject: [WRY] Bennett, Mallinson, Wakefield > My brick wall seems to be building itself ever higher. In my efforts to > find > the parentage of Selina MALLINSON my ggggmother, born Wakefield 1831, and > which is not clarified by her marriage certificate because there is no > trace of > the father she names as John, I have found the following: > 1. 1841 and onwards census returns for the Wakefield Mallinson family. > There's only one such family, so I know it has to be right. > 2. identified from these census returns 4 siblings, all reported born > Wakefield. Neither Selina nor any of her siblings seem to have a record in > the IGI, > under any Wakefield batch number nor under those for Hook, Howden (or > Goole > for luck) which is where her mother was from: only one brother was born > after 1837 and I've ordered his birth certificate. But the others are all > a > mystery. > 3. Selina's sister Lucy MALLINSON married the local blacksmith, William > BENNETT, a widower. She was single and living with her mother in 1861, and > in > 1871 shows children born from 1862 onwards, when William is also living > in the > Mallinson household. I say he was local because both families lived on > Westgate in the centre of Wakefield. I can't find any marriage for these > two > individuals (separately) in a Wakefield district, and I've checked the > images of the > registers online, not just transcripts. Another mystery. > > I am seriously beginning to think Selina's mother Jane never married and > bore all her children under her maiden name. Would this have been a > barrier to > getting them baptised? or to getting formally married? > > What am I missing or doing wrong? Is there a publication of the Wakefield > registers? > > I should just add a story: there's someone else finding the same brick > wall, > and coincidentally we both posted on Curious Fox in the same week. It > turns > out he's a third cousin previously unknown. So sometimes brick walls are > good > for you .. > Maggie > > > > > > ------------------------------- > 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 > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.5.503 / Virus Database: 269.16.8/1153 - Release Date: > 26/11/2007 9:08 PM > >