Who When Where

Another post that doesn't move anything forward but might be of interest all the same. The Blackpool Gazette & Herald 25 Feb 1876 carries an article about the Excelsior lodge of the Independent United Order of Mechanics holding a tea party to raise funds for their Widow & Orphans fund, and a...

one time after Amy went back to him they went to live with an aunt of his in Liverpool - do you know who this might be? While they were there her child died (Eric Walter Walsh), so I wonder if the aunt could be traced through the address? Could possibly be onto something here... in 1911 there is a ...

The newspaper report was in the South Eastern Gazette of 27 June 1916. I've also just spotted another report in the Faversham Times and Mercury and North-East Kent Journal of 27 May 1916 that actually gives a lot more detail, although Amy is wrongly called Ada Matilda. I'll let you find & read i...

Oooh, and here's a twist for you.

Edith married Percival Henry Kealey in 1911, and guess where he died.... the Isle of Man, 1958.

It appears that Matthew Walsh (musician) married a Mary Ann Burns on 17 July 1881 in Hulme, Manchester. It doesn't sound like she's the Shropshire-born lady in the 1891-1901 census reports. As such, what happened to Mary Ann? Did she die? Or did she and Matthew go their separate ways by 1884? It lo...

A newspaper report about the bigamy charge wrongly names him as John A Walsh, a private in the Royal Field Artillery. Married first in April 1914, Wavertree, then again in April 1916 in Canterbury, claiming to be a bachelor. The report says he enlisted 1 January 1915 and an officer from the regiment...

There is a record showing the birth of a Margaret Duncan - Sept Qtr 1856 Vol1a Page 281 - District St Martin-in-the Fields. I This looks promising as George Duncan and Elizabeth Hooper baptised two daughters in the church on Trafalgar Square. The date is just feasible given the dates of birth of El...

Just to add that George Duncan of the Grenadier Guards was born c1828 in Scarborough, Yorkshire and enlisted 15 May 1847. In 1851 he is at the Windsor Infantry Barracks Edited to add the only Charles Duncannon, Confectioner I can find in the census is in York, born c1803 Pickering. He married Elizab...

The only Duncan/Duncannon births I can see around the right time with the mmn Hooper lead back to a family in Hammersmith in 1871 - RG10/65/10/14 Elizabeth Duncan 40 widow born Devon Elizabeth 15 daur b London Clara 13 b London Alice 11 b London Sarah 8 b Canada Louisa 6 b London Minnie 4 b London G...

The age is a little out but FmP has a record for a William Daniels born Edmonton deserting from the 67th Foot Regiment on 13 Mar 1839, aged 19.