Will of John Moult, 1788, surgeon of Rochdale

[ElizabethHerts]

Thomas Moult d. 1721 is OH's 8x-great-grandfather.

[Merry]

Certified Copy of Moult Family Genealogical Table, 1237-1975

How exciting/interesting! I hope it has it's basis in facts!

Yesterday I was looking at an ancestry tree of some of my ancestors and a set of triplets born in 1838 and mentioned in the newspaper had been divided between two different mothers for reasons I can't imagine! lol The mother who I know didn't deliver one triplet () flitted between four husbands having children with all of them, some at the same time - she must have been exhausted, poor woman!

I guess you will be contacting Cheshire Archives about the Moult papers ASAP!

[ElizabethHerts]

Originally Posted by Merry

How exciting/interesting! I hope it has it's basis in facts!

Yesterday I was looking at an ancestry tree of some of my ancestors and a set of triplets born in 1838 and mentioned in the newspaper had been divided between two different mothers for reasons I can't imagine! lol The mother who I know didn't deliver one triplet () flitted between four husbands having children with all of them, some at the same time - she must have been exhausted, poor woman!

I guess you will be contacting Cheshire Archives about the Moult papers ASAP!

Yes, Merry! They will be fed up with my e-mails!

I will proceed with caution. At Hertford they have a book about the Battell family written about 100 years ago but then I discovered that a lot concerning OH's family is wrong.

[Olde Crone]

On the other hand, I have a book written by a man in 1887 covering the genealogy of more than 5000 people over a 200 year period. All the info was in his head and dictated to a local reporter. Doesn't sound very promising, does it? Howwever, I (and many other interested people!) have checked the facts against church regs, bmds, wills, census, newspapers and so on and the book is astonishingly accurate with only the most minor of details wrong - Mary for Margaret, for instance.

OC

[ElizabethHerts]

Does "Certified Copy" mean it's likely to be more reliable? I'm not sure.

[kiterunner]

I think certified copy just means that J D Moult certified in 1975 that it was a photocopy of the original, so it wouldn't have anything to do with the accuracy of the genealogy.

[ElizabethHerts]

I have established that most of the beneficiaries of the will were cousins.
John Moult was son of Thomas Moult and Elizabeth (maiden name Grantham).

Unresolved is the relationship with John and Meriel/Miriam Davies, children of the late Clarke Davies of Manchester.