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This might be interesting
While sorting out room room this week helper came across some old b & d certs
I hadn't known I'd got. I've done very little on my late mother's side & from these I discovered that that her paternal line had a long history of working the canals/rivers around Shopshire & Cheshire. I've done a bit of preliminary work but don't have any subscriptions at the moment so wondered if anyone could help fill in the gaps. Also, I just had a look a Rootschat to see if anyone else was researching the family & a post from earlier this year is about John Potter 'a coloured man' whose daughter Charlotte m a Richard Randles. John Potter is described as a mariner, working the flatboats around Chester & the name Richard crops up time & again in my mother's line. Her father was John Randles,b abt 1887, son of Richard Randles, waterman, b Dudleston Shropsire.I've got various Richards, Johns & a couple of Samuels going back to 1720, but without the means to do any really in depth research. The 'coloured' I find particularly intriguing. Would anyone be kind enough to have a go at helping me with this? |
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If you could be a bit more specific about what info you need!
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For ref, this is the Rootschat thread, but I will wait to hear what exactly you want help with:
https://www.rootschat.com/forum/inde...topic=802593.0 |
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Anything, really Merry! I've got dates for various Randles who look like probable family members so its confirmation really I'm looking for to prove I'm
on the right track. For instance, 'John Randles b 1812 Chester (just a few miles from where my Mum was born) m Ann Parry 22nd June 1847 St John,Liverpool.' Or - John Randles b 1762, son of Richard Randles, wet glover b 1720. In 1777 John was apprenticed to John Sorton of Chester,another wet glover. Just looking to confirm that these are indeed mine. |
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We would need to connect them to whoever you are certain of going back from your mother. So, where does the line go cold going back from her?
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Well, the only thing I know for certain is that John b 1887 was my grandfather, making
waterman Richard of Dudleston my g/grandfather. So not exactly cold, more like tepid due to me not having the wherewithal to delve any deeper. |
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lol I got that wrong then!! I just looked and thought your John was the one born Q2 1888 with different parents!
Is the 1887 birth cert one of the documents you found?
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Or perhaps you have your grandparents marriage cert with that info on it about his father?
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Is this the family in 1891?
https://www.ancestry.co.uk/imageview...ce&pId=1448830 117 Garden Lane, Chester Richard Randles Head M 44 Waterman Cheshire Chester Emma Do Wife M 44 Not known Mary Do Daur S 18 Cheshire Chester Lizzie Do Do S 6 Scholar Do Do Richard Do Son S 16 Printer Do Do Charles Do Do S 10 (?) Scholar Do Do William Do Do S 9 (?) Do Do Do John Randles Son S 5(?) Cheshire Chester Fred Do Do ?? Do Do I can't be sure what most of the ages say as there are thick lines drawn through them. |
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I do hope it's the family Kate is transcribing as the other lot look difficult!
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