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Good afternoon all.

Well the 2 certs arrived today. The death cert was not the correct George Profit as his occupation was a railway worker who died when he was crushed between 2 coaches on the railway....how awful.

However the marriage cert between George & Maryann is correct. It gives his occupation as a boatman and his father is also George as some of you correctly stated.

With this extra info you all found re siblings, I can now rewrite that branch of the tree but still don't know when George died?

What I have just realised also is there is a gap of 14 years between John & Sarah so there could have been other siblings I guess?

My own findings were completely wrong as I had John Proffitt and Anne Bane as Georges parents and now as it was ages ago cannot find how I arrived at that info.??
So big thankyou to all of you who helped with this for me.

Really appreciated

Florence in the hebrides

Re-posting the baptism dates of the siblings you mention - for ease of reference:

Siblings of George 1816:

Sarah Prophet 1813
Thomas Proffit 1821
John Profitt 1799

All baptised in Sandbach, children of George and Elizabeth of Betchton.

There may have been miscarriages or stillbirths between John and Sarah, of which there won't be any record.

None of these.....posting for elimination

PROPHETT, GEORGE 0
GRO Reference: 1865 D Quarter in CONGLETON Volume 08A Page 198
PROPHETT, GEORGE 30
GRO Reference: 1865 D Quarter in CONGLETON Volume 08A Page 202
PROFIT, GEORGE 37
GRO Reference: 1859 S Quarter in MACCLESFIELD Volume 08A Page 72
PROFFIT, GEORGE 69
GRO Reference: 1862 J Quarter in NORTHWICH Volume 08A Page 177
PROFFITT, GEORGE 24
GRO Reference: 1865 S Quarter in WOLVERHAMPTON Volume 06B Page 271
PROFFITT, GEORGE 1
GRO Reference: 1865 D Quarter in STOKE-UPON-TRENT Volume 06B Page 91
PROFFIT, GEORGE 25
GRO Reference: 1865 D Quarter in HOLYWELL Volume 11B Page 191
PROFFITT, GEORGE 56
GRO Reference: 1854 M Quarter in WEST DERBY Volume 08B Page 322


George stated that he was 24 when he married on 15th Feb 1841. One of the witnesses was a James Prophett
Mary claimed to be 20

Purely for INFO...........this is the one with parents John and Ann (Nancy)

Profitt Or Prophet
George
1816
1816
Cheshire Diocese Of Chester Parish Baptisms 1538-1911
Lower Peover

Profitt Or Prophet
George
1816
May 1816
Cheshire Diocese Of Chester Bishop's Transcripts Burials 1576-1906
Cheshire, England

I have found this one on Free BMD and its not in your list ErikaH

George Proppett d 1859 8a pg 193 Q4. Nantwich

Also listed as George Prophett same details probably a correction to spelling.

Are you able to look for this elsewhere where it may give an age?

I'm sure the answer is in the spelling of his surname and there are so many variations, although there are not many deaths even using different spellings.

That's the one in your opening post -
https://www.gro.gov.uk/gro - gives ages at death and the chance to check for similar sounding variations and phonetically similar variations

Name: Age at Death (in years):
PROPHETT, GEORGE 4
GRO Reference: 1859 D Quarter in NANTWICH Volume 08A Page 193

Oh doh, siily me. Sorry for that, need to go to specsavers!

As previously advised……….the GRO gives age at death. That’s the source of all the records I posted at 15:16!!