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Wirral
06-12-2006, 07:43 PM
While looking through the records of St Mary & St Helen, Neston, Cheshire, I have come across a number of strays from outside the county & even the country:
Burial of John Henri Wright, cabinet maker, a German, 25 August 1762.
Burial of James McLoughlan & Timothy Nercy, both Irish men, 22 Sep 1761.
Burial of John Cashin, an Irish man, 30 Oct 1761.
Burial of Robert Nathaniel of the Parish of Towen, North Wales, 2 Jan 1761.

As Neston was a main port on the River Dee there are lots of strangers dying or being married there. There are similar records at any of the other Wirral & Liverpool chuches. I've tried the usual lines, such as the IGI & Rootsweb, but no luck so far.It seems a shame that these records are unlikely to be found by descendants of the families concerned. Has anyone any ideas about what to do with them?

Geoffers
06-12-2006, 09:40 PM
The FFHS collates these records and then sells them on.

The local FHS should have a strays co-ordinator.

Where you have a location (e.g. the Towen reference), you can pass information to the FHS covering that area.

Geoffers