I got a pdf death certificate the other day for the man I hoped to be my 4xGGF John Harrison but I am not 100% certain it is him as the informant was not a family member. He was a potter's packer - check. He died in High Street, Tunstall - check. He was of the expected age - check. BUT, as is turning out be par for the course with this family, there's never a family member around when you need them to do the decent thing and go to the registrar. The informant was a John Dobson who resided in High Street, Tunstall but cannot be found there in 1861 or later in 1871 so no help there.
I was prepared to accept that I most likely have the death for the right man but then I found a John Harrison of the right age in the 1861 census living in High Street, Tunstall whose wife just annoyingly had to called Mary A. Yet I was sure I had my Mary safely deceased in 1844 (she who died after breaking a rib falling off a stool - another cert with only the coroner as informant).
What's wrong with the couple on the 1861 is that they are both born Longton, Staffordshire but from the 1841 census, I know that my Mary was born out of county. 1841 is the only census that I have positively got my 4xGGrandparents together. Also this 1861 John's occupation is a puzzle. The first word is almost illegible (slightly better on ancestry version) and then the enumerator has written "no, Collier" after that. My 4xGGF was in the potteries trade and the death certificate I got confirms that. If there were indeed two John Harrisons alive in Tunstall in 1861, then where is "my" one?? Or is it actually him and he had temporarily changed occupation...
Can anyone make out what the hard to read first word is for the 1861 occupation. He is in household 328. Am clutching at straws here as you can tell LOL
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I was prepared to accept that I most likely have the death for the right man but then I found a John Harrison of the right age in the 1861 census living in High Street, Tunstall whose wife just annoyingly had to called Mary A. Yet I was sure I had my Mary safely deceased in 1844 (she who died after breaking a rib falling off a stool - another cert with only the coroner as informant).
What's wrong with the couple on the 1861 is that they are both born Longton, Staffordshire but from the 1841 census, I know that my Mary was born out of county. 1841 is the only census that I have positively got my 4xGGrandparents together. Also this 1861 John's occupation is a puzzle. The first word is almost illegible (slightly better on ancestry version) and then the enumerator has written "no, Collier" after that. My 4xGGF was in the potteries trade and the death certificate I got confirms that. If there were indeed two John Harrisons alive in Tunstall in 1861, then where is "my" one?? Or is it actually him and he had temporarily changed occupation...
Can anyone make out what the hard to read first word is for the 1861 occupation. He is in household 328. Am clutching at straws here as you can tell LOL
https://www.ancestry.co.uk/interacti...cklabel=Return
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