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William Haddon and Isabella Arthur's marriage:

Warwickshire, England, Marriages and Banns, 1754-1910

Name: Isabella Arthur , spinster
Birth Year: abt 1813
Age: 26
Spouse Name: William Haddon, widower - a bricklayer
Spouse Age: 26
Marriage or Bann Date: 21 Mar 1839
Event Type: Marriage
Parish: Mancetter
Father Name: Alexander Arthur - Victualler
Spouse Father Name: George Haddon - Bricklayer

Both of Atherstone.

Witnesses: Elizabeth Trethick (?) Forbes and Thomas Haddon.

Hmm. no occupation given here and they don't seem to be on the Freecen site.

1841

Name: Alexander Arthur
Age: 65
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1776
Gender: Male
Where born: Renfrewshire, Scotland

Civil Parish: Lochwinnoch
County: Renfrewshire
Address: Calder Street
Parish Number: 570
Household Members:
Name Age
Alexander Arthur 65
Campbell Arthur 50
Janet Arthur 22
Ann Arthur 17
Andrew Arthur 24
Agness B Arthur 7

I am just wondering as this is Emma's first post if she thinks that she will be notified of replies.

I'll send a PM just in case.

Thanks everyone - was just putting the children to bed. Overwhelmed at all this info flowing so thick and fast - I think you got to the bottom of it then. It seems that despite being named on my great-grandmother's birth certificate, William Haddon Arthur was already dead four years before.

So really it is his wife, my great grandmother Henrietta, who was the chancer - naming a long dead husband as father of her child. I am impressed that it's taken 126 years, almost to the day, for the little secret of her daughter's parentage to be outed!

I certainly have plenty of leads to follow now, even if the discovery has put paid to any thought of Scottish ancestry.

Henrietta lived to be 94, was bombed out of her Coventry almshouse in age 90 in 1940 and died towards the end of the war. My dear grandpa, who only died 10 years ago, was very fond of his granny (and very proud of his Scottish roots - just as well he didn't live to hear tonight's revelation!).

Thanks again to everyone who has helped me tonight.

This seems to be the FreeCEN version

1841 Census
Piece: SCT1841/570 Place: Lochwinnoch -Renfrewshire Enumeration District: 4
Civil Parish: Lochwinnoch Ecclesiastical Parish, Village or Island: -
Folio: 0 Page: 29
Address: Calder Street
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Surname First name(s) Sex Age Occupation Where Born Remarks
AITKEN Alexander M 65 Renfrewshire
AITKEN Campbell F 50 Renfrewshire
AITKEN Janet F 22 Cotton F Worker Renfrewshire
AITKEN Ann F 17 Cotton F Worker Renfrewshire
AITKEN Andrew M 24 Agricultural Labourer Renfrewshire
AITKEN Agness B. F 7 Renfrewshire