Wedding Album
Irene Mary Mercer is Bride’s sister. Miss Janet Payne is the daughter of Hilda Payne and Sidney A Payne (photographer).- pretty sure these Paynes are related to Bride’s mother but are part of the family she is lodging with.
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Hazel Street, Blackburn
John Frederick Hoghton died there in 1891 John Thomas Hoghton was living there in 1891 Amy Rebecca Blakemore was living there when her son was born in 1892 Charles Blakemore died there in 1894.
Charlie Blakemore
According to family legend, Hannah Smith-Houghton was engaged to be married to Charlie but he was killed in Frannce three minutes before the end of World War 1. Chares Rowland Blakemore was the grandson of Charles Blakemore (Senior), through James Manley Blekemore (Junior)! (So hannah’s half cousin sort of) He was indeed killed in action in the November of 1918, but not quite so close to the Armistice. Charlie was the oldest child of James and his wife Mary Anne…
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Hannah Brown and Thomas Beasley
Amelia’s parents. Thomas Beesely: probably baptised 2nd April 1823, St Nicholas Church, Kenilworth. If so, his father was William Beesley, a peruke maker and his mother was called Hannah. Possibly an “Ag Lab” at Villiers Hill, Kemilworth in 1841. Hannah Brown: born about 1827. 1841 living with her father, Benjamin (a watchmaker), her mother Susannah and her younger siblings Emma, Benjamin, Henry, and Eliza. Coventry, Town Walls Marriage 9th April 1848: (father’s occupation Hair Dresser fits with the peruke /…
Gertrude Jenkins
Ralph’s Aunt witness and neoghbour at Florence / James marriage Daughter died of cat scratch
Who was where when?
And how / why did Sarah Elizabeth marry in Blackburn in 1876? (her Aunt Lydia Marstin was in Burnley as a servant in 1851) Charles’s parents and siblings 1841 1851 1861 1871 1881 1891 1901 John and Elizabeth Blakemore St Albans St Albans St Albans St Albans St Albans dead John Whilliam St Albans St Albans London London London London London Charles St Albans St Albans B’ham B’ham B’ham Blackburn dead Mary Ann (Wilson) St Albans St Albans St Albans…
Sarah Wak(e)lam
Mary Ann’s Aunt. Unmarried mother who seems to have “managed” – including looking after her mother, Mary Ann’s grandmother who was “not in bed for 9 years” before she died
FH Family days out
who was there and why; what is there to see now?
Corinaldi
James Manley Blakemore senior was Charles’ brother. I think he must have been a very nice man. He married Sarah Steele (nee Gow), a Scottish widow with three children from her first marriage. One of them (Margaret) married a Cecil Corinaldi. They named one of their sons James Manley Blakemore Corinaldi. (his obit is in the 15/2/1940 Liverpool echo – this is the only Corinaldi family indexed in both 1921 census and 1939 register) ” “ from both Bill &…