ok - if she was "Step Mother" to head of house then was she married to John DANIELS' father? Maybe she was married 3 times - 1st marriage to ? STRAFFORD 2nd marriage to ? DANIELS 3rd marriage to ? JOHNSON making her step mother of John DANIELS and making John STRAFFORD step brother to John DANIELS. hmmmm.... ~ Claire > To: WEST-RIDING@rootsweb.com> From: meelliott@btinternet.com> Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2007 18:04:46 +0100> Subject: [WRY] Help needed with relationships> > Please can someone with more genealogical experience than I help > interpret the following for me. Searching for relatives of Adelina > STRAFFORD I came across this entry from the 1851 census:> > ref: piece 2337 folio 477B> New George St 4> (Ecclesall Bierlow; Ecclesiastical District: St Mary's [Bramall Lane])> > John DANIELS Head Marr 32 spring knife cutler Sheffield> Mary A DANIELS Wife Marr 32 Sheffield> William DANIELS Son 10 scholar Sheffield> Emma DANIELS Dau 8 scholar Sheffield> Mary A DANIELS Dau 1 scholar [sic] Sheffield> Ann JOHNSON Step Mo Wid 70 household duties parish relf. Sheffield> John STRAFFORD Step Bro Widr 47 miller journeyman NTT Scrooby> > JOHN STRAFFORD is certainly Adelina's brother, and son of John and > Ann STRAFFORD. Age, birthplace and occupation are correct. John > and Adelina did in fact have a sibling Mary Ann born in 1800, but she > married George FORD, was born in Scrooby not Sheffield, and the age > on this census is quite wrong. (From the 1861 census I discovered > that the Mary A DANIELS had a daughter in 1855, so this Mary could > not possibly be John and Adelina's sibling). So Mary A DANIELS was > not John STRAFFORD's sister> > ANN JOHNSON. John and Adelina's mother was called Ann. But she > disappeared (but I have been unable to find her death) between the > birth of a son in 1810 and the marriage of John to Harriet MILNER in > Scrooby in 1814. I suppose John and Ann STRAFFORD could have > divorced(?) and Ann remarried.> > So what could be the connection between the DANIELS and Ann JOHNSON > and John STRAFFORD?> > Regards> Margaret> > > > > > -------------------------------> 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 _________________________________________________________________ Try Live.com - your fast, personalised homepage with all the things you care about in one place. http://www.live.com/?mkt=en-gb

That is certainly an interesting theory! Thank you. Where should I look to find information about divorces at that time? Regards Margaret On 13 Aug 2007, at 18:54, Claire wrote: ok - if she was "Step Mother" to head of house then was she married to John DANIELS' father? Maybe she was married 3 times - 1st marriage to ? STRAFFORD 2nd marriage to ? DANIELS 3rd marriage to ? JOHNSON making her step mother of John DANIELS and making John STRAFFORD step brother to John DANIELS. hmmmm.... ~ Claire > To: WEST-RIDING@rootsweb.com> From: meelliott@btinternet.com> Date: > Mon, 13 Aug 2007 18:04:46 +0100> Subject: [WRY] Help needed with > relationships> > Please can someone with more genealogical > experience than I help > interpret the following for me. Searching > for relatives of Adelina > STRAFFORD I came across this entry from > the 1851 census:> > ref: piece 2337 folio 477B> New George St 4> > (Ecclesall Bierlow; Ecclesiastical District: St Mary's [Bramall > Lane])> > John DANIELS Head Marr 32 spring knife cutler Sheffield> > Mary A DANIELS Wife Marr 32 Sheffield> William DANIELS Son 10 > scholar Sheffield> Emma DANIELS Dau 8 scholar Sheffield> Mary A > DANIELS Dau 1 scholar [sic] Sheffield> Ann JOHNSON Step Mo Wid 70 > household duties parish relf. Sheffield> John STRAFFORD Step Bro > Widr 47 miller journeyman NTT Scrooby> > JOHN STRAFFORD is > certainly Adelina's brother, and son of John and > Ann STRAFFORD. > Age, birthplace and occupation are correct. John > and Adelina did > in fact have a s! ibling Mary Ann born in 1800, but she > married George FORD, was born in Scrooby not Sheffield, and the age > on this census is quite wrong. (From the 1861 census I discovered > that the Mary A DANIELS had a daughter in 1855, so this Mary could > not possibly be John and Adelina's sibling). So Mary A DANIELS was > not John STRAFFORD's sister> > ANN JOHNSON. John and Adelina's mother was called Ann. But she > disappeared (but I have been unable to find her death) between the > birth of a son in 1810 and the marriage of John to Harriet MILNER in > Scrooby in 1814. I suppose John and Ann STRAFFORD could have > divorced(?) and Ann remarried.> > So what could be the connection between the DANIELS and Ann JOHNSON > and John STRAFFORD?> > Regards> Margaret> > > > > > -------------------------------> 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 _________________________________________________________________ Try Live.com - your fast, personalised homepage with all the things you care about in one place. http://www.live.com/?mkt=en-gb ------------------------------- 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