Martha Oddy WALSHAW, b 1816 had an illegitimate son, Thomas WALSHAW, born 29 Jue 1837, Birstall, St Peter. In 1841 Martha is found as a servant in the home of James Wooler, farmer & corn dealer, & family in Soothill. Her son Thomas is not with her. I am unable to find Thomas in the 1841 census. I know that he was living as Martha Oddy WALSHAW married William WAKEFIELD (who is also found as an agricultural labourer in the home of James Wooler, above) in 1843 and Martha's son Thomas is with them in 1851. I have tried every which way to find Thomas in 1841 and would appreciate any help. Marg >From the Beautiful British Columbia Cariboo Region, Canada

Marg Do you know Martha's mother's maiden name or if she had a sister called Hannah? The only likely candidate I can find for Thomas is age 2, living at Stockfield, Bradfield (the right area as all the places you mention are relatively local to each) with Jonathan Hawke , 64 shoemaker, Hannah Hawke, 48, 68; two of their own children, a journeyman shoemaker, and an apprentice. Having been in June Thomas would have been 2 at the time of the census. If this were my line I would be looking to link Martha to this family if I could by working on baptism/marriage records for Hannah and baptism for Martha as in my large Yorkshire family tree an illegitimate child was often with one set of grandparents or with an older sibling of the mother. Wendy -----Original Message----- From: Margaret Cambridge via Sent: Wednesday, October 08, 2014 11:07 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [YORKSGEN] Help finding Thomas Walshaw Martha Oddy WALSHAW, b 1816 had an illegitimate son, Thomas WALSHAW, born 29 Jue 1837, Birstall, St Peter. In 1841 Martha is found as a servant in the home of James Wooler, farmer & corn dealer, & family in Soothill. Her son Thomas is not with her. I am unable to find Thomas in the 1841 census. I know that he was living as Martha Oddy WALSHAW married William WAKEFIELD (who is also found as an agricultural labourer in the home of James Wooler, above) in 1843 and Martha's son Thomas is with them in 1851. I have tried every which way to find Thomas in 1841 and would appreciate any help. Marg >From the Beautiful British Columbia Cariboo Region, Canada ..... Ancestors in Yorkshire? http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/YKS/index.html; www.ryedalefamilyhistory.org; www.wharfedalefhg.org.uk; www.yorkshireparishregisters.com; www.yorkshireroots.org.uk; ------------------------------- 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

Looking at the 1851 Johnathan and Hannah have two Crawshaw children with them: Charles, 2 and Eliza 7. In 1841 Charles is with his parents William Crawshaw and Charlotte. Both entries are at Bradfield on the census so there is a definite HAWKE CRAWSHAW link. Wendy

I have now found Thomas on the 1841 -with his maternal grandparents indexed as BALSHAW. As Margaret has confirmed that this is of the right family I have made the amendments to the information on Ancestry which they will get round to fixing eventually I expect. No idea what they are indexed as on FMP but the initial letter of the last names is a pretty flamboyant 'W' that can only be confirmed by checking it against entries made by the enumerator Wendy -----Original Message----- From: Margaret Cambridge via Sent: Wednesday, October 08, 2014 11:07 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [YORKSGEN] Help finding Thomas Walshaw Martha Oddy WALSHAW, b 1816 had an illegitimate son, Thomas WALSHAW, born 29 Jue 1837, Birstall, St Peter. In 1841 Martha is found as a servant in the home of James Wooler, farmer & corn dealer, & family in Soothill. Her son Thomas is not with her. I am unable to find Thomas in the 1841 census. I know that he was living as Martha Oddy WALSHAW married William WAKEFIELD (who is also found as an agricultural labourer in the home of James Wooler, above) in 1843 and Martha's son Thomas is with them in 1851. I have tried every which way to find Thomas in 1841 and would appreciate any help. Marg >From the Beautiful British Columbia Cariboo Region, Canada ..... Ancestors in Yorkshire? http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/YKS/index.html; www.ryedalefamilyhistory.org; www.wharfedalefhg.org.uk; www.yorkshireparishregisters.com; www.yorkshireroots.org.uk; ------------------------------- 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