A couple of weeks ago I posted a thread expressing my very slight unease with a marriage cert - everything was absolutely correct, except that the groom's occupation was given as a butcher, not a house painter. But his father was a house painter and his father in law was a butcher and he was living with his inlaws at the time of his marriage, so I accepted this slight muddle.
Well, today, because I couldn't get in here, nor could I get on ancestry or anywhere else, I decided just to have a little check on the damaged 1851 census, just to make absolutely SURE there wasn't another couple called Edward and Ellen....
...there was. Edward, butcher and Ellen his wife. MY Edward and Ellen were living just round the corner.
OK, not much harm done, just a bit of pencil work on the wrong Ellen, easily scribbled out.
I went back to some very old notes I made and found a query "Is Ellen a Riddell?"
I had looked for this marriage before and found nothing. I had another look on Lancsbmd - nothing. Then I entered Ellen Riddell, no spouse and oh dear me, I got this:
Ellen Riddell to
Edward W GARLICK.
Their second child was baptised Emma Garlick Whittaker.
So, its looking as if my Edward Whittaker is a Garlick by birth...another b**** to add to the ever growing list!
(Funny, my father was very contemptuous of my mother's Scottish working class roots, but at least all her ancestors were born in wedlock, unlike 3 out of my 4 paternal 2 x GGFs!)
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Well, today, because I couldn't get in here, nor could I get on ancestry or anywhere else, I decided just to have a little check on the damaged 1851 census, just to make absolutely SURE there wasn't another couple called Edward and Ellen....
...there was. Edward, butcher and Ellen his wife. MY Edward and Ellen were living just round the corner.
OK, not much harm done, just a bit of pencil work on the wrong Ellen, easily scribbled out.
I went back to some very old notes I made and found a query "Is Ellen a Riddell?"
I had looked for this marriage before and found nothing. I had another look on Lancsbmd - nothing. Then I entered Ellen Riddell, no spouse and oh dear me, I got this:
Ellen Riddell to
Edward W GARLICK.
Their second child was baptised Emma Garlick Whittaker.
So, its looking as if my Edward Whittaker is a Garlick by birth...another b**** to add to the ever growing list!
(Funny, my father was very contemptuous of my mother's Scottish working class roots, but at least all her ancestors were born in wedlock, unlike 3 out of my 4 paternal 2 x GGFs!)
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