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Help With Rellies Seamans Records

thanks janice and thanks for double checking i also checked all the street where mary ann was in 1861 some years ago hoping to find enos there..maybe as a lodger nearby but no joy but he must have been lurking somewhere:D...will let you know as soon as i can get more info on the 1828 marriage

lyn
 
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I have a subscription to FMP, but unfortunately it only gives the transcription (I HATE them). Not sure whether you have the date or not, but it's 07 Oct 1827 Saint Matthew.
 
yes thank you bewdley i do have the date...i will contact the church on monday to see whats what...will let you know when i find anything out..hoping i can get back another generation which would be great..

lyn
 
bewdley said:
I have a subscription to FMP, but unfortunately it only gives the transcription (I HATE them). Not sure whether you have the date or not, but it's 07 Oct 1827 Saint Matthew.
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IGI only has a transcription as well and "no image available" - something else I hate.
 
morning janice just had a look at staffs register office site..as suspected they only have the marr records from the start of 1837 which was the start of the civil registration...i have the number of staffs record office so will give them a call first before i try contacting st matthews.....not been back this far before so this is new to me...found it fascinating when i was at st matthews yesterday to think that my thomas and mary were married there nearly 200 years ago..the church is very high up and i would think that back in 1827 you could see for miles..i am on a mission now

lyn
 
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I know exactly what you mean - I have a relly married in 1820 in Preston Bagot Church and a few years ago I stood by the altar and next to the font where her children were baptised. Church still down narrow country lanes - but left open in the daytime.
 
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I know exactly what you mean - I have a relly married in 1820 in Preston Bagot Church and a few years ago I stood by the altar and next to the font where her children were baptised. Church still down narrow country lanes - but left open in the daytime.
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thats wonderful janice..what a feeling that must have been:)
 
janice if i was doing things today i could have got in today for sunday service...dont worry i will get there lol
 
little update...just received an email from the person in charge of parish records at st matthews (they are kept at the church and records go back to 1570) i have given him the details of mary buckley and thomas woods marriage in 1827..fingers crossed

lyn
 
so do i janice...even if its only the names of thomas and marys fathers... may not be able to get back any further but at least i could put them down as my 4 x gt grandparents...:)
 
just received this email from st matthews...think the only way i will go back another generation for thomas wood is to try and locate his baptism.. i was hoping that his father may have been a witness...thomas wood b abt 1804 hever derbyshire...the only trouble is i can only find a place called hever in kent..


I can confirm that the Marriage of Thomas Wood and Mary Buckley, both of this Parish, took place on 7th October 1827. Both left their mark X and the marriage was witnessed by Samuel Read X his mark.
Unfortunately there are no other names on the certificate.
The certificate is in Book No 28 on page 133 No 397.

At this time the certificate held no more information, fathers names were not required.

If I can be of further help please get in touch.
 
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Oh dear - I did wonder. The registers are so vague early on and it comes down to guesswork which one is your rellie. How do you know it was Hever Derbyshire?
 
morning janice yes its very difficult..not come across a samuel read so he was most likely just a friend...on the 51 census thomas wood age 47 b hever derbyshire..his wife mary b abt 1808 ashby de la zouch...
 
Lyn,

And the baptism is on FamilySearch - Thomas s/o John & Milicent WOOD bp 26 February 1804 St Lawrence Heanor

EDIT: And John Wood marr Milicent Gibson 3 October 1803 at the same church.

Maurice
 
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wow maurice i think you have cracked it...as i said on the 51 it looks like it says hever but on the 61 it looks more like heanor...the woods were a mining family..will just go back and check my records and get back to you...this is looking good:)

lyn
 
I too wondered about Heanor - knowing the mining background in the family. Also people often wrote names how they sounded.
 
Lyn,

I have Herefordshire WOODs (my paternal grandmother) and I know how difficult it can be - there are thousands of them!

Here's his mother.... Milesent Gibson d/o Joseph & Elizabeth Gibson chr 14 August 1785 St Lawrence Heanor (familysearch).

There are some Heanor entries on FreeReg, but not all. I haven't looked for the WOOD line there.

Maurice
 
maurice you are an angel...that last info has more or less confirmed it...

thomas and mary had only 7 sons no daughters..their first born was joseph (i presume after millicents dad) and second born was thomas and their 3rd was john (after thomas.s dad) their 6th son enos is my gt gt grandad) ...its very much looking as though i now have my 4x gt grandparents john and millicent wood...i will do a bit more re checking though as i dont want to be attached to the wrong family:D

many thanks maurice..
 
if i have read the info right st lawrence church was founded in 1279 and is still there:eek:
 
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Sadly, that's where the WOOD line might come to a halt (like mine). There don't appear to be any christened in Heanor in the 1780s, though there is one a year older than Milesent, christened in 1784 in Dronfield, which is very close. But probably little else to confirm that he is the ONE when there are plenty of others of similar age not far away.

Maurice
 
Well there is/was 17 churches/religious organisations within the parish of Heanor, though most records aren't online, of course. And St Lawrence wasn't always the parish church, though it seems to have been for the period we are researching.

Maurice
 
thanks maurice...if i cant get back any further than my 4x gt grandparents i am more than happy with that although i think a visit to st lawrences church is on the cards next year...
 
Lynn - it looks as if the Wood Family is an old established Heanor tribe! Not sure how you will know which are yours though. Ancestry has some Derby parish records but I think there are only transcripts no originals.
 
oh crikey janice not tribal warriors surely lol...how fascinating more research to do when i have time.

thanks janice
 
The records are under Derby parish records - that is why there is little detail but there seemed to be the name Wood going back to the 1600's - could well be a link but as I said going that far back is often a bit of guessing and hoping.
 
thanks janice i have noted all this down now..i think for now i will try to find the deaths of john and millicent wood..millicent may not be to difficult..also possible i can get them on the 41 census..
 
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