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No, sorry. Mark Noble of Great Harwood was married to a distant relative of my Clayton le Moors Smiths and when she died he married another Smith from Clayton le Dale. It looks as though the Catholic...

This has been a fascinating thread to read. Thank you to all of you. Although I'm only related very distantly I looked at the Ribchester Smiths when trying to solve my own Smiths from Clayton le...

I tried Lanopc and LancsBMD and all I have found so far is Mary Ann Hill, mother Maymon, Accrington 1869 but can't find a marriage for Maymon to Hill. Most of the ones I've looked into at Altham with...

There was a vicar at Altham who did this a lot for illegitimacy. I've seen it many times before.

That is the same area as my Breens and McIlherons but you are clearly doing much better than me. Good Luck.

Until 1837 it was only legal in England and Wales (and ?Scotland) for Catholics to marry in a Church of England church and because of this, the practice often continued for many years after.(Some...

If you do a DNA test Ancestry now splits between parent 1 and parent 2. Their latest update gives each chromosome an ethnicity. Further update promised shortly! So it may well be useful if you have...

The old Catholic chapel in Clayton le Moors is in Enfield, just near Clayton Hall. The chapel has been knocked down, but there is a nicely kept graveyard. If you use Lancashire online parish clerk...

If you do an autosomal test, you don't have to do any more. Just solve all your matches. If you take a Y-DNA test, you may have to spend a lot more money. What you get is the general haplogroup, then...

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I bought my husband a DNA test on Ancestry and rapidly realized his maternal grandmother Florence had many matches via her mother but not via her supposed father except for two descendants of...

My husband's grandmother has one birth date on the 1939 register and a different birth date on her birth certificate. When he did a DNA test on Ancestry it became apparent that his grandmother was...

What is the case with other baptismal records in this parish? If it is just an isolated case,it does seem unlikely. I know that for a short period in Great Harwood in Lancashire the vicar did put the...

Maybe they belonged to different churches. I have a family in the early 1800s in Clayton le Moors, Lancashire who baptized all the children Anglican until the volcano erupted in 1816 and father...

There is a Catholic FHS and they have recently put some records online.

Ancestry doesn't show shared matches under 20cM so you may well have shared matches at lower amounts. Do you ever read Lost Cousins? Peter is very good at explaining tricks and strategies. best...

Baptism: 22 Jun 1810 St Mary the Virgin, Bury, Lancashire, England
Thomas Haworth - Son of Thomas Haworth & Ellen
Born: 26 May 1810
Abode: Tott.
Register: Baptisms 1809 - 1812, Page...

I have found my aunt's details on Ancestry. She was living with her parents and older sister. Her sister has been redacted but has been deceased for some years whereas aunty Joan is very much alive....

Your first reading looks fine. The second one as you say and it's £4. li is pound and for the numbers you count the upright letter is and they always put a j at the end so you know it's the end....

Familysearch wanted me to register, then they nagged me to start a tree. It's not as bad as Ancestry hints, but they keep sending me helpful messages. "Do you know one of your ancestors was married...

and naturall, then chattells and credits, I think, cicilysmith

Florence died in 1966.
I haven't looked for a baptism. I could try that, but according to Cheshire BMD (which, as far as I know, is produced from the local records, not the GRO, her birth year is...

This is a very interesting discussion. My mother in law's mother, Florence, has a birthdate on the 1939 register which is completely different by 2 years (and in month and day) from that on the birth...

Congratulations, Lynne, you have worked very hard over the years, cicilysmith

I am interested in the Dunham/Singletary line, because several of them appear on my husband's Matches page for his Y-DNA at FTDNA. His own line is back to North Staffordshire in the early 1700s, but...