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Old 10-09-20, 13:28
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I have found a reference to my Hugh Addison.

The only place I have ever found him for sure is his burial and will.

I have no idea when his daughter was born or any other children etc.

But.......I have found this.

Reference......BD Broughton/18/2/5

Title.....Affidavit of Hugh Addison of Hawkshead, gentleman, aged 78years.

Description......He lived in Broughton in Furness for 50years and remembers Mr Wainhouse, Mr Muncaster, Mr Sidgewick, Mr Taylor and Mr Wright. Nomination was by sides man and principal inhabitants of Broughton. The landowners and house owners of Seathwaite never interfered with the nomination.

Date.....August 1739

Held by.....Cumbria Archive and Local Studies Centre Barrow.

Anyone know if there might be anything of use in this, or are these common?
I have no idea what it’s about, but sure it is my Hugh as he died an old man in 1743 in Hawkshead.
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Old 10-09-20, 13:34
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If BD Broughton/18/2/5 is a record office reference, browse the reference, to see what is on either side.
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Sidesmen are minor church officials (these days they carry the collection plate round if I remember rightly), so it presumably relates to the appointment of the vicar or something similar.
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A bit more information from Cumbria archives, which suggests that it was a lawsuit relating to the appointment of curates in Broughton-in-Furness:

https://archiveweb.cumbria.gov.uk/Ca...%2f2%2f5&pos=1
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There are 3 other documents in Cumbria Archies relating to what looks like the same Hugh Addison.

To find them, type "Hugh Addison" (with the inverted commas) in the "Any text" box of the Advanced Search:

https://archiveweb.cumbria.gov.uk/Ca...lmView.Catalog

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Thank you all. I was beginning to think he was a complete figment of my imagination and the Will was a mirage........even though I’ve read it many times.

How does someone not have any other records? I know his wife was Jane. I presume from a will of the father of a Jane Scale, it was her, but have no proof. The dates and wording of that will make me believe it is so.

Hugh and Jane’s daughter, Agnes, is my husband’s direct line.
Hugh’s will mentions his wife Jane and daughter, Agnes. It also mentions some grandchildren that do not belong to Agnes so presume he had at least one son.

I cannot find records for any of these at all, yet the family seems to be of fairly high standing.
Maybe they just didn’t like officialdom.........which explains where my husband got his rebellious streak......lol
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They may have been non-conformists, and not all their records survive. Burials in particular are hard to find.
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FamilySearch has quite a few baptisms in Broughton-in-Furness and Bolton-le-Sands in the late 1600s/early 1700s with father Hugh/Hugonis Addison, some with mother Jane. Can't see an Agnes, though.

The Bolton-le-Sands ones are on FMP and Ancestry (Hugonis being mistranscribed as Eugenie on one occasion).
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Old 10-09-20, 23:19
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It's possible that Hugh might have had dissenter tendencies:

Reference: QSP/1309/2
Title: Torver and Broughton - registration of house of William Jackson called Hasell Hall, and of John Addison, as dissenters' meetingplace
Date: c1729/30
Held by: Lancashire Archives, not available at The National Archives

Equally, it might have been difficult to get to a church in poor weather/private baptisms not recorded in the register/marriage pre 1754 less likely to be recorded
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