I have William Grime from 1841 until he died in 1872 but is there any way that I could find a baptism or any information prior to 1841
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Born 1793 in Barbados. but moved to Lancashire.. is there any way of finding a bapti
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here you go Val 1861: http://search.ancestry.co.uk/cgi-bin...ki1861&indiv=1Julie
They're coming to take me away haha hee hee..........
.......I find dead people
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Thank you for the help.
I have had a look at IGI but could find nothing as early as 1793 and have tried to find any sites that may help with Barbados but without success.
I have been informed he married on 28 April 1817 at St Peters Bolton but have not seen the cert.
No idea when he came to the Uk or anything about him other than he was a coal miner.
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Almost certainly a Lancashire family that went to Barbados for some purpose - I wonder if the family were Methodists and went as missionaries? Grime/s is a very old Lancashire name.
Although many Lancashire weavers went all over the world, to British countries to teach weaving, I doubt there was much in the way of weaving in Barbados, so either the religious or the military is all I can think of.
OC
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The OPC for Holy Trinity Bolton was kind enough to send me the register image when I asked. I don't recall any explicit requests, but I imagine a donation might be welcomed if you do get a copy of something like that.
It may not give you any extra info, but it's good to have the original source doc, if you can get it, just for completeness.
ChristineResearching: BENNETT (Leics/Birmingham-ish) - incl. Leonard BENNETT in Detroit & Florida ; WARR/WOR, STRATFORD & GARDNER/GARNAR (Oxon); CHRISTMAS, RUSSELL, PAFOOT/PAFFORD (Hants); BIGWOOD, HAYLER/HAILOR (Sussex); LANCASTER (Beds, Berks, Wilts) - plus - COCKS (Spitalfields, Liverpool, Plymouth); RUSE/ROWSE, TREMEER, WADLIN(G)/WADLETON (Devonport, E Cornwall); GOULD (S Devon); CHAPMAN, HALL/HOLE, HORN (N Devon); BARRON, SCANTLEBURY (Mevagissey)...
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Hello OC,
It occurred to that if William Grimes came back with his parents he may have siblings born in Barbados so I did check but found none called Grimes.. I searched Lancashire without any name just the birth place Barbados.. plenty in Liverpool but also one in Little Bolton, a Margaret Winstanley.. could be her but I found a marriage for John Winstanley and Margaret Seddon so a good idea but no result
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On familysearch.org there are any number of Grime births etc in Barbados so maybe there was a family connection there.
Have a look at this site http://greatships.dlhjr.com/Barbados...y_Research.pdf they seem to have the baptism registers covering the year you are looking for.
Margaret
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he was a coal miner in lancs, i wouldn't take it for granted that's what he always did. and it is quite possible his family had been in the carribbean for a long time. i have family that stayed in indonesia for at least 3 generations.....and i still have no clue when they went to england. the grimes family may have owned a plantation or such.
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I have not seen the marriage certificate so was unaware that it referred to him as a spinner..I have worked backwards from the known back through each census to 1841 and on each he states born in Barbados or West Indies so have taken that and the fact he was a coal miner on each census to be correct..
There were however a lot of families named Grime all with similar names and were either cotton workers or coal miners.... so no, now that you mention he was a cotton worker on the marriage cert I am not sure.. it just fitted in with the birth of his children.
I am in touch with another person who is more closely related to the Grime family and she has been researching this family a lot longer than Iand has a lot of more personal knowledge so will have to review
Cheers
ColinLast edited by colin taylor; 07-10-11, 10:13.
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Colin
Can you make a judgement of his personal circumstances on the census? For example, if he is living in a nice house with umpteen servants, he might be a coal miner in the sense that he is the owner of the mine, not a worker and that might reflect inherited wealth from plantations on Barbados.
OC
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