Category Archives: Family

Look-ups in the 1911 census

Here is a list of things I would love to look-up in the 1911 census: Janet Baldwins side of the family: Joseph Baldwin + Jane Saywell (both 56) and children (Arthur: 28; William: 19; Frank: 17; Henry: 15; Emily: 13; John: 10) in Coppull p, Chorley d, Lancashire c, UK Joseph Baldwin (age 36) probably [...]
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Review: Victorian Pharmacy

Victorian Pharmacy by Jane Eastoe (foreword by Ruth Goodman), 2010 Pavilion I am very much love the idea of bringing History to life through good story telling. The narrative enables the current living to better understand the lives of the people of the past. Obviously a narrative without dates and places become just another fictional [...]
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A start on the Beech Family

Today I want to make another start on the Beech Family of Wigan. The ancestor to begin with is Florence Doreen Beech. I have found her siblings all born in the 1920s in Central Wigan, which tells us that her parents lived in Wigan at that point. Her father is James William Beech (1891-1952) and [...]
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Some more Baldwins in Adlington

Continuing the search for the Baldwins I got a tip off about Thomas Baldwin and Mary Ann Longton being in Coppull in the 1911 census so I headed over there and found them living at Holland st. in Coppull. With the same tip off, I found him with what I assumed were his parents Joseph [...]
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Cunliffe’s in Ince

Most of the information I have about this family is from the Cunliffe Family Bible and from census records of1881, 1891, and 1901 I can’t find the parish records as they are not on the otherwise wonderful Lancashire Online Parish Clerks Project website. But I have found some records recently on  Lancashire BMD. James Cunliffe [...]
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Miners in Lancashire

This is a little collection of the English miners in my husbands family. I have made a short summery of what I know about them and their job and I hope to be able to add to this with your help. James Cunliffe (1856 – ?) He is living in Ince in Makerfield, Wigan – [...]
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The search for the Baldwins

Last time I mentioned the Baldwin’s it was in connection with Mary Ann Longton and her family. I still don’t have the marriage certificate or record for her and Thomas Baldwin but a Lancashire BMD search tells me that they married in 1908: BALDWIN / Thomas / LONGTON / Mary Anne / Parish Church, Coppull [...]
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The Fillingham / Cunliffe connection

In the Cunliffe Family Bible we find a couple of records which are difficult to place in the context of the Cunliffe family as we know it. These relate to the Fillinghams. I will try to outline what I know so far and then hopefully I will be able to crack this one with the [...]
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The Cunliffe Family Bible

I would like to introduce the Cunliffe Family Bible. Apart from 4 pages in the middle this is a standard version of Brown‘s Selfinterpreting Family Bible containing the Old and New Testaments. The four pages in the middle have been filled in by James and Margaret Cunliffe who were married in 1876. They used it [...]
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The Longton Story so far

The Longton story begins with my Father-in-Law. His Grandmother Mary Ann Longton married his Grandfather Thomas Baldwin in 1907 in Coppull Parish Church and they had his mother Janet Baldwin in 1916 in Coppull. Unfortunately we have no marriage certificate for the marriage and until we get this we probably wont get further on the [...]
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