This isn't really a request for help, more a necessary vocalisation of my frustration!
Dear old Gilbert Holden of Holden died in 1549 and left a very nice Will, naming all five of his children. For some reason, no child ever gets called Gilbert again.
Except:
October 1718
Gilbert Holden of the parish of Burnley married Elizabeth Madern at Rochdale Church.
From Chester Marriage Bonds:
He was Gilbert Holden of Holden, nr the chapel of Burnley, gent. The Bondsman was himself and his brother, John Holden of Holden, gent.
There was never a Gilbert Holden of Holden after 1549. The Holden of Holden in 1718 was Robert Holden, who died without issue, and certainly didn't have a brother called Gilbert as far as I have researched.
I found this in a book called Haslingden, by Thomas Woodcock.
He too says "Who ARE these men?"
Was Elizabeth Madern sold a pup, lol. What did she do when she discovered he wasn't Holden of Holden?!
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Dear old Gilbert Holden of Holden died in 1549 and left a very nice Will, naming all five of his children. For some reason, no child ever gets called Gilbert again.
Except:
October 1718
Gilbert Holden of the parish of Burnley married Elizabeth Madern at Rochdale Church.
From Chester Marriage Bonds:
He was Gilbert Holden of Holden, nr the chapel of Burnley, gent. The Bondsman was himself and his brother, John Holden of Holden, gent.
There was never a Gilbert Holden of Holden after 1549. The Holden of Holden in 1718 was Robert Holden, who died without issue, and certainly didn't have a brother called Gilbert as far as I have researched.
I found this in a book called Haslingden, by Thomas Woodcock.
He too says "Who ARE these men?"
Was Elizabeth Madern sold a pup, lol. What did she do when she discovered he wasn't Holden of Holden?!
OC
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