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I have just been reading again what my Mother wrote. She says that she did not know her aunt but heard a lot about her so the story regarding the gloves must have been acquired memory. So they could have been married prior to WW1 as she says. It is a pity we can't pick up Florence, as given the dates of Isabella's marriage and Mabel's birth, it could be in-between. If the sailing dates are right would she have been left in China given the problems there at the time?
Anne

Has anyone a sub for the newspaperarchive.com and can look up the North China Herald , it is an English language news paper.

I am looking for the death of Isabella Cattelle who was buried in Bubbling well cemetery, Peking. Also any other reference to the family, particularly William her husband b 1861. They were married 19/1/1885 in West derby. Also their daughters Mabel b1888 in England and Florence, I don't know where she was born.
Thanks Anne

Zachamiah is a very unusual name



are you sure it was not actually Zachariah?




sylvia

Hi Sylvia

Yes it could be. My mother wrote it by hand in pencil and it looks like the same ending as Jeremiah but.............
Anne

I googled Zachamiah and it is a Biblical name but very un common, also there are none of that name coming up at all on Ancestry. So I would probably go with Sylvia that it was Zachariah.

Hi Jennifer
I put Zachariah -Butcher into Find my Past and only one in Lancashire came up in the 1891 and 1901 census. It is zachariah Longworth, but he is in Kearsley and I think that would have been too far away. As mother and son lived in Kirkdale in 1891.

Anne

clutching at straws!
1881
Name: Jeremiah O Donnell
Age: 21
Estimated birth year: abt 1860
Relation: Lodger
Gender: Male
Where born: Limerick, Ireland

Civil parish: Kirkdale
County/Island: Lancashire
Country: England

Street Address: 66 Sessions Road
Education:

Employment status: View image
Occupation: Butcher

Registration district: West Derby
Sub-registration district: Kirkdale
ED, institution, or vessel: 24
Neighbors: View others on page
Household Members: Name Age
David Howlett 42
Anne Howlett 36
James Howlett 13
James J. O Donnell 20
Jeremiah O Donnell 21

Might not be!!
At least they are in the right place and in the right occupation.I will try following the lead.

Anne

Hi
You will never believe this but I put into the 1891 census Butcher Kirkdale and I got 164 results. What were they doing in Liverpool, they must have eaten meat until it came out of their ears!!!!
Unfortunately other than Isabella Dawson and Henry Smith there was only one other Smith and there were no other names that jumped out.
Anne

Could they have been relatives of Isabella senior (Cowen if I recall ) from Cumberland??

I am still trying to figure it out, I was hoping that one would be a Dawson, but no such luck!!

Also there are Alice's relations, Thomas Attkinson was a pig farmer and my mother said that it was said that Alice could cut up a carcase as clean as any man!!!
Why oh why did I start this. There are too many blind alleys.
Anne

Anne it's a good challenge for your brain, keep it active.

You will get there eventually. It has taken me nearly 10 yrs to track down my paternal grandmother's family and I am still looking for one of her sisters.

Jennifer

Has anyone a sub for www.newspaperarchive.com and can look up the North China Herald , it is an English language news paper.

I am looking for the death of Isabella Cattelle who was buried in Bubbling well cemetery, Peking. Also any other reference to the family, particularly William her husband b 1861. They were married 19/1/1885 in West derby. Also their daughters Mabel b1888 in England and Florence, I don't know where she was born.
Thanks Anne
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