My most persistently difficult ancestral line stops at Esther LASHFORD (1826-1902), and I wonder whether anyone here can help.
We have reliable (original) documents for her marriage (1845) and her death & burial (1902, Islington & Abney Park Cemetery), but we lack any reliable birth/baptism data or parentage. The reliable facts that we have are these:
Born abt 1826, Hagley. (Father identified only as John LASHFORD, Farmer on Marriage Certificate.)
Working on 6 June 1841 as Female Servant aged 15 at New House Farm, Romsley.
Married George JONES 7 Dec 1845 "The Parish Church" Handsworth (no dedication given for the Church itself!).
Living in Allen St, London 1853 (from daughter's Baptism record).
Living at 20 Queen's Place 1861 & 1871.
Living at 414 Essex Road (our family's fruiterer's shop) 1881.
Died 27 April 1902 Essex Road.
Buried 30 April 1902 Abney Park Cemetery (which is, by the way, the most amazing place to visit).
If any of this data is familiar to any readers here, please get in touch with me, as I would like to progress this line back beyond "unknown John Lashford", Esther's father. The name of Lashford is not uncommon in that area of the West Midlands: Hagley, Clent, Belbroughton, Lye, Swinford, Romsley and all those other little villages nearby.
I am guessing that Esther's mother was Catherine TAYLOR, but only because I found a marriage between a John Lashford and Catherine Taylor in 1815 in Clent. And Esther's second daughter (notice 2nd, not first) was named Catherine.
And after we've sorted out Esther, I'll need help with husband George...!
We have reliable (original) documents for her marriage (1845) and her death & burial (1902, Islington & Abney Park Cemetery), but we lack any reliable birth/baptism data or parentage. The reliable facts that we have are these:
Born abt 1826, Hagley. (Father identified only as John LASHFORD, Farmer on Marriage Certificate.)
Working on 6 June 1841 as Female Servant aged 15 at New House Farm, Romsley.
Married George JONES 7 Dec 1845 "The Parish Church" Handsworth (no dedication given for the Church itself!).
Living in Allen St, London 1853 (from daughter's Baptism record).
Living at 20 Queen's Place 1861 & 1871.
Living at 414 Essex Road (our family's fruiterer's shop) 1881.
Died 27 April 1902 Essex Road.
Buried 30 April 1902 Abney Park Cemetery (which is, by the way, the most amazing place to visit).
If any of this data is familiar to any readers here, please get in touch with me, as I would like to progress this line back beyond "unknown John Lashford", Esther's father. The name of Lashford is not uncommon in that area of the West Midlands: Hagley, Clent, Belbroughton, Lye, Swinford, Romsley and all those other little villages nearby.
I am guessing that Esther's mother was Catherine TAYLOR, but only because I found a marriage between a John Lashford and Catherine Taylor in 1815 in Clent. And Esther's second daughter (notice 2nd, not first) was named Catherine.
And after we've sorted out Esther, I'll need help with husband George...!
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