Records Office Lookup

[colette]

Hi all

If these records are still there and have not been moved and if anyone is going in the very near future i would appreciate these two lookups

MARY MERRICK -JOHN WILKINSON ST ANTHONY'S SCOTLAND RD MARCH 1869.

ELIZABETH MERRIN -SAMUEL CUMMINGS ST MARY'S KIRKDALE DEC 1875

I am thinking the MERRIN should be MERRICK and its been transcribed wrong and that these two ladies were sisters.

Thank you xxxxxxxxxxxx

[dickiesam]

Hi ColB,
I've looked at the actual GRO Marriage Index pages on a couple of sources and the names are Merrick and Merrin. So it must be a local, like Registrar, error if the ladies are indeed sisters.

Dickiesam

[colette]

Thanks guys

since found on IGI Elizabeth Merrin & Samuel Cummings marriage father Charles Merrick

found Charles and wife Margaret in Bevington St 1841 & 1851 daughter Elizabeth with them spelt MEYRICK.. found daughter Mary with her gran in 1861 born c 1851 down as an orphan..
So Mary & Elizabeth were sisters.. bloody MERRIN just shows you how it can throw you out.

thanks xxxxxxxxxxxxx

[jan44]

Hi Col,

Marriages as follows:-

St Mary's Kirkdale 25th Dec 1875

Samuel Cummings Full Age bachelor labourer 41 Lancaster Street father Charles deceased

Elizabeth Merrin Full age Widow - Lancaster Street father Charles MERRICK Deceased.

Witnesses: James ? couldn't make his surname out
Mary Ann Cummings

Samuel signed Elizabeth put X her mark.

St Anthony's 1869 9th Feb (very difficult to read this because the microfilm is blue with white writing)

John Wikinson (father Thomas)

Mary Merrick (father looked like Charles but so difficult to read)

Witnesses Thomas Wilkinson Elizabeth Merrick.

Hope that has helped Col.

Jan

[colette]

Hi Jan

and cheers..i am a bit confused...Elizabeth MERRIN widow so she was Merrick and married a Merrin YES??? then married Sam Cummings 1875..

Yet in 1869 she was Elizabeth Merrick OH GOD HELP ME am i missing something here its driving me mad..she should be Merrin arr unless she marries after 1869 to this MR MERRIN..think i have it now better go look for a Merrin /Merrick mariage now


oh the joys..

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[jan44]

Hi Col,

I know what you mean, I was getting confused with the names myself.

I wonder if the marriage for Wilkinson and Merrick was ordered from the Liverpool Roman Catholic marriages website, a better image of it will come out other than on the microfilm.

1869 434 ST ANTHONY MARY MARIAM MERRICK JOHN JOANNEM WILKINSON REQUEST FORM

I am thinking that maybe Elizabeth wasn't a widow and it was a mistake for Spinster, I haven't been able to find a marriage either. Strange her father being Charles Merrick and she signed the register with X.

Hmmm the mind boggles.

Jan

[colette]

Hi

the only two possible Merrin men were John Merrin born c 1832 Lpool & brother James Merrin born c 1838 Lpool.. parents James Merrin & Ann Evans.. in 1851 they are with granny Sarah Eveans on Moorfields shes a Shopkeeper.. after that i lose track of these two lads..

Cannot find a Merrin/Merrick/Meyrick marriage on all the sites we use..but no gonna get too worried about that, at least i have the father Charles Meyrick..
Prob now is cannot finmd Mary who should be Wilkinson in 1871 or Elizabeth who could be Merrin or Merrick in 1871.
Havent a clue of birth place or birth year for John Wilkinson or an occupation, but have a fathers name now Thomas so thats something..i guess..

Wondering Jan could the James who was witness to Elizabeth & Samuel's marriage have beem James Mutch ???

xx

[colette]

Hi

I found Elizabeth Merrick in 1871 at Bankhall St Kirkdale with her uncle James Mutch and his wife Ann..she was still Merrick so her marriage to Mr Merrin has to be after the census and before 1875 as she marries Samuel Cummings in 1875 as Merrin..
Elizabeth's surname was transcribed as Murriel so its a wonder i found her at all..

There is a John & Mary Wilkinson in Brasenose Rd around the corner from Bankhall St in 1871 both aged 27, John was a Sawyer born Bentham Yorkshire no kids..cannot seem to track him in 1861 or beyond.

xx