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Am I grasping at straws with this link ?

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Melster

Melster Report 21 Sep 2008 23:37

Would you take this as a possible or not ?

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Details from 1861 C onwards
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John Gregory .. bc 1825 .. Wollerton, Salop
Ann Wynn .. bc1828 .. Shawbury, Salop


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Wedding Cert
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30.12.1851 - Stanton upon Hine Heath, Shropshire
Living: Stanton Heath
Witnesses: ***Elizabeth Ash*** / Samuel Hammer


Have searched the whole area village by village and no matches but have just relooked at the following. The age is wrong and the birth place is wrong but John Gregory is Lodging with Elizabeth Ash.

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1851 census
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Name: John Gregory
Age: 22
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1829
Relation: Lodger
Gender: Male
Where born: Shawbury, Shropshire, England

Civil Parish: Shawbury
County/Island: Shropshire
Country: England

Street address:

Occupation:

Condition as to marriage:

Disability: View Image

Registration district: Wem
Sub registration district: Wem
ED, institution, or vessel: 6a
Neighbors: View others on page
Household schedule number: 57
Household Members: Name Age

Elizth Ash 25
Sarah Ash 3
Thomas Ash 27
Thomas Ash 1
John Gregory 22

Or am I jumping to conclusions ?

Thanks

Melanie

KathleenBell

KathleenBell Report 21 Sep 2008 23:39

I'd say it was a definite possible.

Kath. x

Melster

Melster Report 21 Sep 2008 23:40

Thanks Kath

Have looked for so long and wondered if I was just grabbing anything.

Thanks

Melanie

Kate

Kate Report 21 Sep 2008 23:43

Could be him - it depends who filled in the census form. Apparently sometimes if the children of the house could write (I know that my great-great grandma could because in 1869 aged 26 she wrote her name in a prayer book, yet her mother - who married in 1841 - could only put a cross on her marriage certificate) they would be given the job of filling in the form.

Maybe something like that happened with him - maybe the householder or whoever filled the form in just gave it their best guess and didn't actually verify the details?

Melster

Melster Report 21 Sep 2008 23:44

Have just found what looks like the John Gregory above in the 1861 census so that makes it unlikely.

Thanks for the fresh perspective anyway.

Melanie