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JoyLouise

JoyLouise Report 4 Jun 2011 23:29

Would anyone with access to indexed marriage records please look up the following for me, please?

Joseph Henry Thomas,
believe married c1890
b Liverpool c1865
Occupation: Baker (but not sure whether he was that at marriage)

Can't find his wife's name or whether she was a widow.

It may be he married as only Joseph Thomas.

I'd be grateful if someone could look up for me, please?

Joy

David

David Report 4 Jun 2011 23:33

???
1891 England Censusabout Joseph Henry Thomas

Name: Joseph Henry Thomas
Age: 26
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1865
Relation: Head
Spouse's Name: Mary W Thomas
Gender: Male
Where born: Liverpool

Civil parish: Everton
Ecclesiastical parish: St George
Town: Liverpool
County/Island: Lancashire
Country: England

Street Address:

Occupation:

Condition as to marriage:

Education:

Employment status:
View image


Registration district: West Derby
Sub-registration district: North Everton
ED, institution, or vessel: 19
Neighbors: View others on page

Piece: 2954
Folio: 131
Page Number: 34
Household Members: Name Age
Joseph Henry Thomas
26
Mary W Thomas
26
Jesse Thomas
2
William Thomas
8/12

 Lindsey*

Lindsey* Report 4 Jun 2011 23:35

baker

1891 England Census about Joseph Henry Thomas
Name: Joseph Henry Thomas
Age: 26
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1865
Relation: Head
Spouse's Name: Mary W Thomas
Gender: Male
Where born: Liverpool
Civil parish: Everton
Ecclesiastical parish: St George
Town: Liverpool
County/Island: Lancashire
Country: England
Street Address:

Occupation:

Condition as to marriage:

Education:

Employment status:

View image
Registration district: West Derby
Sub-registration district: North Everton
ED, institution, or vessel: 19
Neighbors: View others on page
Piece: 2954
Folio: 131
Page Number: 34
Household Members:
Name Age
Joseph Henry Thomas 26
Mary W Thomas 26
Jesse Thomas 2
William Thomas 8/12

 Lindsey*

Lindsey* Report 4 Jun 2011 23:37

poss

Marriages Mar 1891 (>99%)
Guest Mary Waters W. Derby 8b 504

Thomas Joseph Henry W. Derby 8b 504

David

David Report 4 Jun 2011 23:37

Mary's info

1891 England Censusabout Mary W Thomas
Name: Mary W Thomas
Age: 26
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1865
Relation: Wife
Spouse's Name: Joseph Henry Thomas
Gender: Female
Where born: Liverpool

Civil parish: Everton
Ecclesiastical parish: St George
Town: Liverpool
County/Island: Lancashire
Country: England

Street Address:

Occupation:

Condition as to marriage:

Education:

Employment status:
View image


Registration district: West Derby
Sub-registration district: North Everton
ED, institution, or vessel: 19
Neighbors: View others on page

Piece: 2954
Folio: 131
Page Number: 34
Household Members: Name Age
Joseph Henry Thomas
26
Mary W Thomas
26
Jesse Thomas
2
William Thomas
8/12


Mike *

Mike * Report 4 Jun 2011 23:41

Maybe ???

Marriages Mar 1891 -
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

>>>>>>>>>>Guest Mary Waters - W. Derby 8b 504
Oates Sarah Jane W. Derby 8b 504
Spencer Harry W. Derby 8b 504
>>>>>>>>Thomas Joseph Henry - W. Derby 8b 504


EDIT
although Jesse was aged 2 in 1891 and I can't see a birth for Jesse Guest.
.... unless Jesse was really Jessie ???

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Births Sep 1888
GUEST Jessie Elizabeth - Dudley 6c 100

David

David Report 4 Jun 2011 23:41

this is probably it

Name: Joseph Henry Thomas
Gender: Male
Birth Date: abt 1865
Age: 26
Father's name: Henry Thomas
Spouse's Name: Mary Waters Guest
Spouse's Age: 26
Spouse's Father's Name: William Guest
Marriage Date: 25 Jan 1891
Marriage Place: Edge Hill, Lancashire, England

mgnv

mgnv Report 5 Jun 2011 01:40

Lancashire Marriage indexes for the years: 1891
Surname Forename(s) Surname Forename(s) Church / Register Office Registers At Reference
GUEST Mary W THOMAS Joseph H Edge Hill, St. Mary Liverpool 2043WD/13/348

SylviaInCanada

SylviaInCanada Report 5 Jun 2011 03:34

Joyce


You have to buy the actual certificate to see whether someone is noted as spinster or widow, or the occupation.


You are lucky in that David has found what seems to be "your" couple on the Lancashire records on ancestry. But that is all that you will see without buying the certificate.




sylvia

SylviaInCanada

SylviaInCanada Report 5 Jun 2011 03:37

Birth registration for Mary Waters Guest

Name: Mary Waters Guest
Date of Registration: Apr-May-Jun 1864
Registration district: West Derby
Inferred County: Lancashire
Volume: 8b
Page: 437




sylvia

Flick

Flick Report 5 Jun 2011 09:44

Joyce

Two FREE sites which you should have in your favourites........

For all bmd's from 1837 to approx 1945....................

http://www.freebmd.org.uk/

And for Lancashire bmd records..............

http://www.lancashirebmd.org.uk/

Flick

Flick Report 5 Jun 2011 11:33

1901

Name: Jessie C Thomas
Age: 12
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1889
Relation: Daughter
Father's name: Joseph Thomas
Mother's name: Mary W Thomas
Gender: Female
Where born: Liverpool, Lancashire, England

Civil parish: Everton
Ecclesiastical parish: St Cuthbert
County/Island: Lancashire
Country: England


Registration district: West Derby
Sub-registration district: North Everton
ED, institution, or vessel: 34
Neighbors: View others on page
Household schedule number: 290
Piece: 3478
Folio: 150
Page Number: 51
Household Members: Name Age
Joseph Thomas 36
Mary W Thomas 36
William A Thomas 3
Jessie C Thomas 12

lancashireAnn

lancashireAnn Report 5 Jun 2011 14:31

another free site which you may find useful is lan-opc.org.uk - Liverpool area coverage patchy but you can be lucky
eg - possible baptism for Joseph

Baptisms: 30 Apr 1865 St George, Everton, Lancashire, England
Joseph Henry Thomas - Child of Thomas Thomas & Mary
Abode: St Domingo Road
Occupation: Quarryman
Baptised by: C. Logan Curate
Register: Baptisms 1814 - 1866, Page 289, Entry 2312
Source: LDS Film 2147913

Mike *

Mike * Report 5 Jun 2011 18:33

PM received ....

Jesse was Jessie (my gran) but she was born on 21 July 1888 or 1889 and we assumed it was at Liverpool or perhaps Manchester where she worked at one time. Although she gives Joseph Henry Thomas as her father on her marriage cert she gives her own name as Jessie Cooke Thomas. The plot thickens.

By the way, you included Sarah Jane Oates and Harry Spencer on the Thomas marriage info. Were they bridesmaid/best man, by any chance? I'm new to this and not quite au fait with the way everything is recorded.

Many thanks,
Joy
----------------------------------------

If the 1891 marriage is correct then Jessie was born beforehand so may not be a Thomas. ( perhaps she was born Jessie Cooke and simply adopted the surname Thomas after her mother married.

Or.. she IS a Thomas but to a different mother.

Have sent pm regarding the other name appearing on the marriage record.

mgnv

mgnv Report 6 Jun 2011 19:29

Seeing as they were living in West Derby RD in 1891, I checked there for Jes* b 1888q3 or 1889q3. There was a

Births Sep 1888 (>99%)
COOK Jessie W Derby 8b 426

I don't know the relevance of this.

JoyLouise

JoyLouise Report 5 Feb 2012 13:17

Sorry, mgnv, I did not reply to your June message and I've only just discovered this oversight while checking everything.

I found that September 1888 birth for Jessie Cook at W Derby and my cousin's checking it.

Thank you.

JoyLouise

JoyLouise Report 20 Feb 2013 23:15

An update to all who helped me with this.

I tracked two Jessie Cooks down, both born in Liverpool at similar times (188/9).

One died and, not finding what happened to the other, took a leap of faith and thought that this could be my grandmother who, in the 1891 Census was listed as Jessie C Thomas and whose marriage certificate gives her name as Jessie Cooke Thomas. I sent for Jessie's birth certificate and it arrived - yes, it was my grandmother, born 21 July 1888 at Liverpool. Her mother gave her name as Mary Cook but I can't find a marriage (she was born Mary Waters Guest) and there's no father's name on my gran's birth certificate so Mary may have given a false name or used my gran's father's surname as her own.

Thank you everyone for your help.

SylviaInCanada

SylviaInCanada Report 21 Feb 2013 00:40

Thank you for letting us know!!

It's good to know that you have found your grandmother's registration.



sylvia

JoyLouise

JoyLouise Report 24 Feb 2013 18:10

I know there was no father registered for Jessie's birth but I'm wondering where Mary (the mother) got the surname Cook from.

I've looked at the marriages in Liverpool and found a Mary Guest marrying in 1884 and the only other Mary Guest born there before this would have been too young to marry in 1884. I'm wondering whether my Mary Guest was first married in 1884 but there is no indication of the spouse's name in the marriage registrations - it lists probably could have been to one of the following - then gives one man's name and three females' names.

Can anyone help me with the 1884 spouse's name, please?

MarieCeleste

MarieCeleste Report 24 Feb 2013 18:21

The two grooms on that 1884 marriage should be Benjamin Ackary and Michael Hart.

For some reason Benjamin has been mistranscribed as Henrietta on some sites.

This is the FreeBMD transcription

Surname First name(s) District Vol Page
Marriages Sep 1884
ACKABY Benjamin Liverpool 8b 155
Ackary Benjamin Liverpool 8b 155
GUEST Mary Liverpool 8b 155
HACKETT Elizabeth Liverpool 8b 155
HART Michael Liverpool 8b 155