Trying to sort out my mysterious Gt Grandfather.I do know that he was born c 1859 Knighton,Radnorshire BMD 11b 169.
By the 1881c he was living at 5 Starkie St West Derby & was a boot finisher.He was living in the household of a Charles White & family.His Aunt Sophia had lived with Charles Whites family as a housemaid in the Midlands before being transported to Tasmania in 1842.
In recent times I found that the above JB had in fact been the husband of my Gt Gt Grandmother Mary Ellen,they married 1888.Mary Ellen had a daughter Margaret Amelia who was my Gt Grandmother.1891c JB & Mary Ellen are in Windle,St Helens without Margaret who is living with her Grandparents in Wigan.
Then by 1901 he has disappeared & allegedly changed his name to George Broadbent although my Grandmas birth cert names her father as John Broadbent.
On the 1901c he claims to be born Clun,Shropshire & they had moved to Eccles,Lancs
where he had a business as a clogger & shoemaker.I could not find him in records of Clun,& even contacted the registrars but to no avail.No one of that name ever born there.
George Broadbent died 1915 Eccles & Margaret had given him 7 children.
Then I had a breakthrough with the 1911c when I found he was born Knighton.
By quite a lot of searches & hard work we found that John Broadhurst married to Margarets mother Mary Ellen was probably one & the same person who had gone to Eccles with Margaret & set up home there & had a family.No marriage found for Margaret & George & no knowledge of any other marriage of John Broadhurst prior to his marriage to Mary Ellen Dickenson in 1888.
I would love to find out more as no one in the family knows/knew anything about him.
bettyespana
By the 1881c he was living at 5 Starkie St West Derby & was a boot finisher.He was living in the household of a Charles White & family.His Aunt Sophia had lived with Charles Whites family as a housemaid in the Midlands before being transported to Tasmania in 1842.
In recent times I found that the above JB had in fact been the husband of my Gt Gt Grandmother Mary Ellen,they married 1888.Mary Ellen had a daughter Margaret Amelia who was my Gt Grandmother.1891c JB & Mary Ellen are in Windle,St Helens without Margaret who is living with her Grandparents in Wigan.
Then by 1901 he has disappeared & allegedly changed his name to George Broadbent although my Grandmas birth cert names her father as John Broadbent.
On the 1901c he claims to be born Clun,Shropshire & they had moved to Eccles,Lancs
where he had a business as a clogger & shoemaker.I could not find him in records of Clun,& even contacted the registrars but to no avail.No one of that name ever born there.
George Broadbent died 1915 Eccles & Margaret had given him 7 children.
Then I had a breakthrough with the 1911c when I found he was born Knighton.
By quite a lot of searches & hard work we found that John Broadhurst married to Margarets mother Mary Ellen was probably one & the same person who had gone to Eccles with Margaret & set up home there & had a family.No marriage found for Margaret & George & no knowledge of any other marriage of John Broadhurst prior to his marriage to Mary Ellen Dickenson in 1888.
I would love to find out more as no one in the family knows/knew anything about him.
bettyespana
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