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Can anyone please help with my brick wall?
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Christine in Yorkshire | Report | 26 Mar 2014 20:19 |
Hello Mary thanks for your posts; yes my Thomas was a china repairer and dealer eventually, started as a cutler, then boarding house keeper. |
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Mary | Report | 26 Mar 2014 20:00 |
Sorry Stuart,my fault didn't refresh the page. |
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greyghost | Report | 26 Mar 2014 19:38 |
Mary, see my post at 1910 - have already been down that route and found by the post at 1923, he was something different in each census! |
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Mary | Report | 26 Mar 2014 19:33 |
Was his dad John a china repairer,just asking as Thomas in 1911 is a china mender + dealer. |
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Christine in Yorkshire | Report | 26 Mar 2014 19:25 |
have just noticed (!) on 1881 census there is a neighbour James Ward with a mother Bridget (although that name doesn't appear anywhere in the descendants. |
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greyghost | Report | 26 Mar 2014 19:23 |
However, he is in York in 1901 and recorded as a Scissors Cutter and Grinder and in 1891 a Lodging House Keeper in Sculcoates, Hull ! |
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Christine in Yorkshire | Report | 26 Mar 2014 19:16 |
Hello Stuart |
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greyghost | Report | 26 Mar 2014 19:10 |
Is this your Thomas (there is a 76 year old death in Scarborough 1931). I see he says he is a China Mender so not too much imagination needed to say that was his father's employment if that is what he did. |
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Christine in Yorkshire | Report | 26 Mar 2014 19:03 |
Thanks for that Kathleen I hadn't thought about it and there apparently was never mention of relatives by my T Ward. |
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KathleenBell | Report | 26 Mar 2014 18:58 |
It was not unheard of for an illegitimate person to "make up" a deceased father for the marriage certificate so that they saved face in front of the new in-law's. |
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Christine in Yorkshire | Report | 26 Mar 2014 18:30 |
Thank you Beverley it's so hard to know if that's him or not but I really appreciate your effort :-) |
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Gee | Report | 26 Mar 2014 18:15 |
Have you considered that he may have made up a name for the marriage? |
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BeverleyW | Report | 26 Mar 2014 18:14 |
That family in 1871 (not saying it's the correct one, maybe the names of the siblings ring a bell?) |
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BeverleyW | Report | 26 Mar 2014 18:11 |
Possible? |
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Christine in Yorkshire | Report | 26 Mar 2014 17:51 |
I have just returned after having to 'park' my research for a while and am already climbing the walls!! Can anyone please advise me where to look next for my Thomas Ward. I am trying to trace his birth/parents but with such a common name I'm having trouble. The details I have on him so far are: |