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Trying to find Redhead

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MarieCeleste

MarieCeleste Report 6 Jul 2013 01:05

Is this the third marriage?

West Yorkshire, England, Marriages and Banns, 1813-1935

Name: Thomas Redhead (widower, overlooker of Lancaster)
Birth Year: abt 1832
Age: 47
Marriage or Bann Date: 3 Aug 1879
Parish: Keighley, St Mary Eastwood
Father's Name: Thomas Redhead - toll collector
Spouse's Name: Ellen Bennett (43 a widow, winder of Eastwood)
Spouse's Father's Name: Richard Sandham - wool comber

Witnesses: Jesse Wright and Magret Hodgson

Thomas' father's occupation has changed.

It looks like Ellen may have been Mary's sister

MarieCeleste

MarieCeleste Report 6 Jul 2013 00:57

And a later marriage:

Lancashire, England, Marriages and Banns, 1754-1936

Name: Thomas Redhead (widower)
Age: 34
Birth Year: abt 1829
Event Type: Marriage
Event Date: 24 May 1863
Parish: Lancaster, St Mary
Spouse: Mary Sandham (spinster)
Spouse Age: 36
Father: Thomas Redhead - labourer
Spouse Father: Richard Sandham - wool comber
Reference Number: Pr 3262/1/32

Residence for both appears to be Skerton.

Witnesses: Robert Redhead and John Beckett

MarieCeleste

MarieCeleste Report 6 Jul 2013 00:52

This looks like a possible marriage:

Lancashire, England, Marriages and Banns, 1754-1936

Name: Thomas Redhead, a miller of Skelton??
Age: 27
Birth Year: abt 1829
Event Type: Marriage
Event Date: 9 Jun 1856
Parish: Lancaster, St Mary
Spouse: Elizabeth Sandham of Grasmere Road
Spouse Age: 24
Father: Thomas Redhead - labourer
Spouse Father: John Sandham - labourer
Reference Number: Pr 3262/1/30

Neither married before.

Witnesses: W J Beesley and John Beckitt

MarieCeleste

MarieCeleste Report 6 Jul 2013 00:49

Hello Sarah, welcome to the boards.

As you've noticed, this is an old thread but you could try clicking on Eloise's name to send a direct message. If she's kept an up to date email address on her account she'll be notified of your contact.

Sarah

Sarah Report 6 Jul 2013 00:37

Hello Eloise,

I realise that this point may be completely usless as you wrote your message 6 years ago. But I have Redheads from Lancaster on my tree. The Redhead I have married one of my relatives, and if i recall correctly, when she died he married her first cousin. All the information I have on him is that his name was Thomas Redhead born about 1830.

He married

Mary Sandham in 1863

Elizabeth Sandham - unknown

then Ellen Bennett in 1879

They all lived in Lancaster and worked in the mills.

If any of this is sounded familiar, contact me and i'll be happy to share more information with you :)

I hope you get this message :)

from Sarah :)

Eloise

Eloise Report 16 May 2007 11:37

I'm looking for any Redhead links to Lancashire and Cumbria in the 1800s.

I have got as far back as William (wife Elizabeth), born c1870s. He was born in Skerton, Lancs.

Subsequent generations were born in Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria.

If you have any links to these areas, or any other information, I'd be glad for the help. Thanks!

Researching:
FIFIELD, REDHEAD, SALTER, ESLICK, BLANCHE, BAEYENS, WALRAVENS, WIJNS, BROOKS, RICHARDSON, HATFIELD, UNICUME, LARA, CRESPO, BRUNNER, GASSER