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Barring any extraordinary coincidences, I'd agree with your deductions, cicilysmith

When I was a member of the Anglo-German FHS, several members had very sad stories of what had happened to their German ancestors in WW1 and there were articles in their magazine about the camp on the...

The Lancashire Record Office has an on line section for Marriage Licences which includes some bastardy bonds. Of course the Manchester ones may be at Manchester Record Office. The other main source I...

Yes, Emily/Amelia Thompson married John Broadley 1 feb 1830, St James, Altham, Lancs and her name varies between the two, cicilysmith

It's fascinating to read. I'm only sorry I can't help, cicilysmith

"A gawn is a gallon, or a ladle or pail holding half a gallon" says Stuart.

Just realised it's beed stids, of course, bedsteads, cs

I think line 8 is three little pewter (puter) dishes. A bowk is a bucket, a wooden pail with a handle. If there are books they usually have their own line and more description, I have found. At the...

Congratulations. You've put in a lot of work to get so far back, cicilysmith

Thank you very much, mikejee and Peter Goodey. It's not an occupation I've come across in my own ancestors so I was keen to tell my friend as much as I could about it. Thanks very much to everyone,...

Thank you, Coromandel. George was actually working in Stoke on Trent in 1911, having left his wife and the children at home in Clayton le Moors. He died in Lancashire, so I suppose he had decided to...

Thank you both very much and I will go and pursue your suggestions. You're very kind, cicilysmith

I am doing a tree for a friend and her grandfather, George Robinson, was born in Ampthill, Bedfordshire in 1859. On his daughter's wedding certificate he is listed as a plasterer, in 1901 in Horwich,...

Several articles about the camp have appeared in magazines from the Anglo-German FHS. cicilysmith

I don't think she could have been christened at Odd Rode as it wasn't built till 1864, so you can cross that one off. I usually find it easier to trace families. Can you identify which names among...

According to my French dictionary it should be petit-neveu or petit-niece (sorry can't do the accent on niece), cicilysmith

I've had a look through a list of the documents they have in the church at Astbury and can't see any bastardy bonds listed. The nearest thing is a record book of distribution for poor relief 1836-80....

When I joined the Cheshire FHS and started attending meetings at Congleton the first talk was by our chairman who informed us that Booth was one of the three commonest names in Congleton in the 1881...

Congratulations Annamarie. Later on in Congleton lots of the Irish lived in a long road near the current Fire Station, so Buglawton is a bit different. Following the Irish is certainly a challenge....

I can't think of any punctuation related puns, sorry! I wonder if she should have been called Tryphena and her parents got it wrong, cicilysmith

Thanks to Megan for asking the question and to those who answered. I have never met that word. I like learning new words, cicilysmith

Biddle is a variant of the name Biddulph, from the town in Staffordshire, cicilysmith

They do make corned beef tins now with a ring can opener, much safer, cicilysmith

I know of a Broadley family in Lancashire who had a John and a Jonathan in the 19th century. I suspect that John was known as Jack and Jonathan as Jon, so there was no confusion, cicilysmith

I have a distant association with the Allens of Droitwich via a Winnett/Wynniatt family who came originally from there, so I 'd be grateful to find the correct information. I did correct a lady on...