Liverpool & South West Lancashire FHS - Forum

Great stuff Mary. Why make life simple when it can be fun instead.

Bertie one helped me to find my relation to my Canadian "cousins". We are half second cousins in future.

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Eric

Very useful and fascinating Bertieone. Many thanks.I now know that: My GF is a half sibling with GGF''s new children, my father is half first cousin with GGF´s grandchildren and I am it appears half second cousin with GGF´s ggchildren. I will write and let them know! As to GGF´s second wife - I will...

My GGF Isaac Gandy of Widnes divorced my GGM and remarried in Canada. GGF & GGM had one child, my grandfather. In his new marriage Isaac Gandy had eight children in Canada. One of his sons had in turn eight children. Is there any accepted name for my GGF's second wife? Is there a name of the relatio...

Hi Alex
Thank you so much for the suggestion and link. I had no idea that these were available. Nathan Abbott was born in 1690 so his family were living there before 1702.
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Eric

Thank you for the link. I have found a number of tithe maps for the area which I hope are available on line as I live abroad. Cheers Eric Gandy

Thank you Mary and Bert for the help.
Of course I should have edited my previous post or removed it. My apologies- not very familiar with the forum yet.
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Eric Gandy

My ancestor Nathan Abbott, an innkeeper of Bold, died in 1727. In his will he refers to two pieces of property that he owns. The handwriting in the will is difficult to interpret, but it looks like Mosswaye Cottage and a piece of land called Newlay, “lawly purchased from Thomas Blackburn of Bold”. I...

Mary, thank you for all your help with the maps. The side by side function is very useful. A rereading of the will from 1727 indicates that the cottage is more likely in Bold, not Cronton and the name possibly Mosswaye. In Bold there is a farm called Abbottfield Farm which could indicate a connectio...

Thanks Mary A for the tips about maps and the link. I will check out the maps. The address today is 6 Lyme Tree Grove, Cronton. I guess thsi can be found on google maps. Cheers egandy

Thanks for your respons Bertieone. The will from 1727 is not easy to decipher, possibly Mofsnays Cottage. Cheers. Egandy

The above property is mentioned in the will of Nathan Abbott, innkeeper of Bold, written in 1727. Nathan is the oldest Abbott (my mother's family) I have found in my tree. I am trying to find a location for the cottage and anything about its history. On Google I found a row of cottages, now a "barn ...

Elizabeth Keeling Thank you for response, Mary A and Blue. Of course I did mean the St Mary's in Great Sankey. In 1891 Elizabeth was living with her parents at the Van Tromp Beerhouse in Marsh Street, West bank, Widnes. Last known record was her marriage in 1893 at St Ambrose church. Elizabeth's pa...

Burial St Marys Church Penketh Searching for any evidence (church record, gravestone) of the death and burial of my ggmother Elizabeth Stevens/Gandy/Keeling between her marriage to Thomas Keeling in 1893 in Widnes and the 1901 census. Elizabeth was born in 1859 in Sankey/Penketh. Eric Gandy http://...

I run two family history sites with connections to Farnworth, Widnes and Penketh. They focus on two Widnes families, the Abbotts and the Gandys. The websites are: www.abbottfamily.se http://www.gandyfamily.se The domain .se is Sweden, where I now live. I was born in Farnworth, Widnes. Comments, info...

Thanks MaryA
Much obliged.
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Eric

I have recently published a web site about the Abbott family of Farnworth, Widnes. It can be found at http://www.abbottfamily.se/ Any comments, suggestions, corrections or additions most welcome. My other family history web site if for the Gandy family of Widnes, US and Canada: http://www.gandy.st/ ...

Thanks for your quick response and generous offer. A couple of typos in my original message. The obituaries in question are: William Stevens, my gggf, father of Elizabeth Stevens/Gandy/Keeling, died 15 June 1898 at “Van Tromp”, Marsh Street, Widnes age 69 yrs. Widnes Weekly News p. 5, col. 6, June 2...

Hello I have sent a request by e-mail to the WWN obituaries page to ask for help with a couple of obituaries for my great grandparents. As I live abroad I cannot visit the offices of the newspaper. Unfortunately I received no reply. Anyone have any experience of the WWN archives or an idea how to pr...

Hello to all who responded to my query about the Campbell and Stevens families. Very useful and generous.

Apologise for non-response due to earlier illness.

Regards

Eric Gandy

Hi again, more details Elizabeth Stevens was born abt 1859 in Penketh to Mary Lomax and William Stevens, and married my great grandfather Isaac Gandy in 1877. Her parents ran the Van Trompen beerhouse in Marsh Street, West Bank. Isaac and Elizabeth lived in Waterloo Street with son/my grandfather Wi...