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WIGAN AREA
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Linda | Report | 22 Jul 2009 14:54 |
I hope someone has a knowledge of the Wigan area please? I have a 1863 m/cert for the Parish of Christchurch, Ashton, Lancaster. Job Povey's residence at time of marriage is given as Ashton, but Harriet Driver's residence is illegible, but looks like Au...ly P.... near Wigan. Anyone have any ideas please, bearing in mind its 1863 and could be an area that no longer exists! Thanks Linda |
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Linda | Report | 22 Jul 2009 15:45 |
Thanks i will have a look at those 2 sites. |
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Linda | Report | 22 Jul 2009 16:14 |
No luck with those websites, maybe someone else has an idea? |
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Alan | Report | 22 Jul 2009 16:26 |
Beginning with "A".................Aspull, Appley Bridge, or Abram. |
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Cynthia | Report | 22 Jul 2009 20:06 |
Hi, |
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mgnv | Report | 23 Jul 2009 07:45 |
Might P*=Parish |
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Linda | Report | 23 Jul 2009 10:02 |
Hi Cynthia thanks for your offer of help. Just to confuse things a little further..... I have had another set of eyes look at it and they think its not an A but a fancy H for the beginning word, but agree it looks like the word ends in LY. The second opinion on the second word is that it starts with a fancy P with 3 or 4 letters after it but no downward strokes so more like PEER? However, someone else suggested all ONE WORD but with a break in the writing between the Y and the P? To recap it looks like H/AUCLY PEERS!!! |
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Cynthia | Report | 23 Jul 2009 11:26 |
Have you got Harriet Driver on a census - just a thought? Or I suppose you could send away for her birth certificate but the earliest birth I can see on freebmd is 1848 in Warrington!! |
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Ricochet | Report | 23 Jul 2009 11:30 |
How old was Harriet? |
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Linda | Report | 23 Jul 2009 11:45 |
On the 1863 m/cert Harriet Driver is a widow (father's name Robert Lees) aged 36 marrying Job Povey widower age 33. However, cannot find them on 1871 but they are living in Hollingworth on 1881 census but Job and Harriet are now given as both age 52, so someone fibbing on m/cert about age! Incidentally, as mentioned in another thread, can find no marriage for Harriet Lees to first husband Daniel Driver but were living together in Somerset in 1861 census. |
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Cynthia | Report | 23 Jul 2009 11:47 |
I'm really supposed to be ironing but what about these? |
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Linda | Report | 23 Jul 2009 11:52 |
Hi Cynthia, sorry to be stopping you ironing... but this is so much more fun! Either Hindly Green or Astley Green could fit if i try to read it by squinting! Thanks for that it gives me somethere to start anyway. Linda |
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Ricochet | Report | 23 Jul 2009 11:57 |
I remember this woman now....there was masses of info on your thread about Harriet and Daniel...... |
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Linda | Report | 23 Jul 2009 12:05 |
Sorry Ricochet, i know i have enquired previously about her marriage to Daniel Driver, but as i got nowhere i have moved onto her next marriage to Job Povey. Sometimes it helps to come at things from another angle. |
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Ricochet | Report | 23 Jul 2009 12:11 |
I wasn't being critical......just posted 1861 in case it helped with locating her in 1871, which you say you have been unable to do. |
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Ricochet | Report | 23 Jul 2009 12:19 |
Was Job a widower when he married Harriet? |
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Linda | Report | 23 Jul 2009 12:20 |
I know... the only Daniel Driver death i found was in March 1863 (5 mths before she married Job) and he was an Excavator who was run over by a Railway Waggon in Manchester! I dont believe this is right cos my Daniel was an Ag. Lab. in Somerset. |
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Ricochet | Report | 23 Jul 2009 12:22 |
1871 for you.......... |
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Linda | Report | 23 Jul 2009 12:26 |
Yes, he was a widower in 1863 so this entry in 1861 with first wife Ellen would fit nicely thanks. |
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Linda | Report | 23 Jul 2009 12:30 |
Thanks just found a marriage Mar 1860 Job Povey with Ellen Smith in Ashton. |
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