Thank you for the information and a lesson in genealogy logic, how to search and what to look for, this is going to take a while, but its great fun. Thanks Dave At 02:00 PM 16/11/2007, you wrote: >From: David Swallow <dswallow4@cogeco.ca> > > > Looking for confirmation of information, who Peter married, I have > > looked at BMD index and find two possibilities. I know wife name was > > Elizabeth. There are two choices in Bradford, Yorkshire - West Riding > > 1850 Apr-May-Jun, Volume 23 Page 149. > > > > I Hope that someone can help, this part seems to be the hardest as I > > have others who cannot be found easily.> > >There is only one way in which you can get absolute confirmation and >that is to BUY the marriage certificate. I am afraid that sometimes >genealogy costs money and there is no way round it. You may just have >to bite the bullet and cough up! > >However, I note from FreeBMD that the two possibilities are Elizabeth >HEMMINGWAY and Elizabeth ROBERTSHAW. If you look at the 1851 >census at Ancestry you will find only one Peter Hollings in the Bradford >area, as far as I am aware, and he was living at Calverley, aged 26, with >wife Elizabeth, aged 20, and 1-month-old son John. The image reveals >that Elizabeth was born at Calverley, so presumably circa 1830/1. > >Now go to www.familysearch.org and enter Elizabeth Hemmingway in the >IGI search box, born 1830 with parameters of +/- 2 years either side. You >will see there an Elizabeth HEMINGWAY [sic, one M] baptised at >Calverley on 10 April 1831, daughter of Joseph and Elizabeth >Hemingway (batch no. C007252, source the bishops' transcripts for >Calverley Parish Church). > >Now try the same thing for Elizabeth Robertshaw, born or baptised about >the same time. You will find 2 or 3 entries for females of that name >christened in Bradford but none at Calverley. > >It is, of course, by no means 100 per cent certain, but my money would >be on the Elizabeth Hemingway baptised at Calverley. However, as I >said, you may have to buy the certificate to be sure. Bradford Registration >District covered a great many churches where the marriage could have >taken place, Calverley being one of them. > >-- >Roy Stockdill >Editor, Journal of One-Name Studies >Guild of One-Name Studies website: www.one-name.org >Newbies' Guide to Genealogy & Family History: >www.genuki.org.uk/gs/Newbie.html > >"There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, >and that is not being talked about." >OSCAR WILDE > > > >------------------------------- >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