HICUZ 80 - Canadian/Scottish roots

Dougald's Crowd

                                                                                                                        Summer-Fall 2010

Copyright 1990 et seq, Donald Rowe

New Data Sources

Thanks to McLeod Clan for this update.

Two new sources for genealogical data have become available recently. 

The Cape Breton Genealogical & Historical Society has published on CD many of the 19^th century marriage records from the various counties on the island.  These CDs contain images of the original records.

The second new source is one that has been taking up much of my time this summer, and will probably continue to do so throughout the winter and beyond. 

The Family Search website

http://pilot.familysearch.org/recordsearch/start.html%23c=fs%3A1392507&p=collectionDetails

contains records from the Catholic Diocese of Antigonish from 1823-1905.

This is a partner project with the Genealogical Association of Nova Scotia to index digital images for this Catholic diocese. The images contain church records for some, but not all parishes in the diocese and include christenings, marriages and births.

Record History

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Antigonish was originally known as the Diocese of Arichat and was established on September 22, 1844. Previously the diocese was part of the Diocese of Quebec. On August 23, 1886, the see was moved from Arichat to the town of Antigonish, and the diocese becamethe Diocese of Antigonish. The diocese covers seven counties in northeastern Nova Scotia: Richmond, Inverness, Victoria, Cape Breton, Antigonish, Pictou and Guysborough. Catholic records are traditionally kept on the parish level so the registers are usually found at the church where the event occurred.

Based on statistics from the 1901 Canadian census, around 28% of the population of Nova Scotia was Catholic and 58% of the Catholics in Nova Scotia lived in the Diocese of Antigonish. About 68% of the pre-1906 parishes in the diocese are included in this record set. 

Searching the Site

The site’s search engine is quite useful.  My first search was for the last name of MacFarlane.  This would show any record in which the surname MacFarlane shows, including spelling variations.  This would include the name appearing as a baptized child, the parent thereof, a husband or spouse of a marriage or the parent of the husband of the marriage (why not the wife’s parents I can’t say).  Four hundred twenty-nine records appeared!  There were some duplication but since every Catholic MacFarlane in Nova Scotia appears to be a descendant of Dougald this one search provided me with a

tremendous amount of new data.

Of course not all of Dougald & Margaret’s descendants or their parents have the surname MacFarlane.  These searches are going much more slowly, as they must be done, for the most part, on a one-by-one basis. 

Milestones

Stephen/ Michele/ Irene/ John Angus/ James/ Angus/ Archy/ Dougald

Wedding: Stephen Daniel Mac Donald to Stephanie Mae Power at St. Margaret of Scotland Church, Broad Cove, Inverness Co. Date: August 7, 2010.

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Andrew/ Elizabeth (Betty)/ Irene/ John Angus/ James/ Angus/ Archy/ Dougald

Wedding: Andrew Peter Fortune & Melodie Andrea Elliot, on August 21, 2019 in Wilson United Church, Margaree, NS

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 Chad/  Wesley / Elizabeth (Mina)/ John Angus/ James/ Angus/ Archy/ Dougald. 

Chad Ferguson married Mary Jesslyn Mac Donald on July 17,2010 in Mabou, NS at St. Mary's Church

Thanks to Janice Ferguson for the above

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Kathleen Doolan / Ann MacFarlane / Donald J. / James John/ John / Archibald / Dougald

Ryan Thomas Titsworth was born on August 19, 2010 to Kathleen and John Titsworth.

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Lynn / Jim / Catherine MacFarlane / James john / John / Archibald / Dougald

Lynn Coady married Robert Appleford in September 2010.

Website Update

I’ve been making some major additions and revisions to the web site, I hope you make a visit.

http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~maritime/Maritime_Mosaic/

The People’s Clearance 1770-1815

By J. M. Bumsted

This is my third reading of this particular book.  Each re-reading reveals several new nuggets of information.

At the time of its first publication in 1982 it was considered as a revisionist account of early Highland Scottish emigration to what is now Canada.  The accepted view of the time was of oppressed, impoverished peasantry being driven off the estates to make way for sheep.  While this picture was certainly true of later, post 1815 Scotland, the author, with careful documentation paints a very different picture of the earlier period.

One of the principle exports of Scotland throughout its long history had been people, but the emigration that began in 1763 was regarded as new, different and extremely frightening.  For the first time men became aware of the possibility that the wrong people were emigration.  Prior to this time the only organized groups leaving Scotland were the result of government policy, such as the deportation of Jacobites.  Post 1763 Scots were organizing to emigrate, often chartering whole ships.  Although some continued to depart as indentured servants most were able to finance their own passage.  The fact that the vast majority of emigrants paid their own way was significant for a number of reasons.  These people were the prosperous part of the laboring classes of Scotland.  They took with them a significant amount of money with them.  The organization involved suggests that the emigrants were among the more dynamic of the citizenry. 

The opposition to this emigration during this by the government, the ruling class and the landlords (often the same people) is markedly different from the later forced clearances of post-1815.

Bumstead’s detailed research and extensive appendices make this a text worth reading.

Help Needed

There are a few MacFarlanes in the Diocese records that I have not been able to connect.  Your help would be appreciated.

You will see that in some cases there are whole families involved.  Please don’t be shy.  I would much rather hear from three people with the same information than from no one.

Name: Mary Macdonald          

Gender: Female

Event Type: Baptism

Event Date: 28 Jul 1869

Event Place: St. John the Baptist, Brook Village, Inverness, Nova Scotia, Canada

Birth Date: 25 Jul 1869

Birthplace: Lake Ainslie

Father: Donald Macdonald

Mother: Ann Macfarlane

Name: Ann Macfarlane            

Gender: Female

Event Type: Baptism

Event Date: 25 Nov 1866

Event Place: St. Margaret of Scotland, Broad Cove, Inverness, Nova Scotia, Canada

Birth Date: 10 Nov 1866

Secondary Event Type: Birth

Secondary Event Date: 10 Nov 1866

Father: Donald Macfarlane

Mother: S Macdonald

Name: Mary Ann Macfarlane               

Gender: Female

Event Type: Baptism

Event Date: 04 Sep 1841

Event Place: St. Andrew's, St. Andrews, Antigonish, Nova Scotia, Canada

Birth Date: 03 Sep 1841

Father: Peter Macfarlane

Mother: Mary Ann

Name: Joseph Fraser   

Gender: Male

Event Type: Marriage

Event Date: 23 Jun 1903

Event Place: St. Ninian's Cathedral, Antigonish, Antigonish, Nova Scotia, Canada

Father: Alex Fraser

Mother: Mary Cameron

Spouse: Anna Dora Carter

Name: Ellen Bridget Carter

Gender: Female

Event Type: Baptism

Event Date: 28 May 1889

Event Place: St. Ninian's Cathedral, Antigonish, Antigonish, Nova Scotia, Canada

Birth Date: 25 May 1889

Birthplace: Antigonish

Father: James Carter    

Mother: Ellen Mcfarlane

Name: Colin Peter Mcdonald   

Gender: Male

Event Type: Baptism

Event Date: 07 Aug 1886

Event Place: Immaculate Conception, Heatherton, Antigonish, Nova Scotia, Canada

Birth Date: 07 Aug 1886

Father: John R Mcdonald

Mother: Mary Ann Mcfarlane

Name: Donald Norbert Mcdonald

Gender: Male

Event Type: Baptism

Event Date: 06 Jun 1888

Event Place: Immaculate Conception, Heatherton, Antigonish, Nova Scotia, Canada

Birth Date: 06 Jun 1888

Father: John R Mcdonald

Mother: Mary Ann Mcfarlane

Name: Allen Mcdonald

Gender: Male

Event Type: Baptism

Event Date: 29 Oct 1867

Event Place: St. Margaret of Scotland, Broad Cove, Inverness, Nova Scotia, Canada

Birth Date: 18 Oct 1867

Secondary Event Type: Birth

Secondary Event Date: 18 Oct 1867

Father: Angus Mcdonald

Mother: Mary Mcfarlane

Name: Mary Mcdonald

Gender: Female

Event Type: Baptism

Event Date: 21 Dec 1869

Event Place: St. Margaret of Scotland, Broad Cove, Inverness, Nova Scotia, Canada

Birth Date: 13 Dec 1869

Secondary Event Type: Birth

Secondary Event Date: 13 Dec 1869

Father: Angus Mcdonald

Mother: Mary Mcfarlane

Name: James Benedict Mcdonald        

Gender: Male

Event Type: Baptism

Event Date: 23 Mar 1890

Event Place: Immaculate Conception, Heatherton, Antigonish, Nova Scotia, Canada

Birth Date: 22 Mar 1890

Father: John R Mcdonald

Mother: Mary Ann Mcfarlane

Name: Mary Gillis        

Gender: Female

Event Type: Baptism

Event Date: 18 Sep 1892

Event Place: St. Joseph's, North Sydney, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, Canada

Birth Date: 13 Sep 1892

Father: Angus Gillis

Mother: Margaret Mcfarlane

Name: Mary Macdonald

Gender: Female

Event Type: Baptism

Event Date: 21 Dec 1869

Event Place: St. Margaret of Scotland, Broad Cove, Inverness, Nova Scotia, Canada

Birth Date: 13 Dec 1869

Secondary Event Type: Birth

Father: Angus Macdonald

Mother: Mary Macfarlane

Name: Marian Maclellan

Gender: Female

Event Type: Baptism

Event Date: 12 Jun 1870

Event Place: St. Margaret of Scotland, Broad Cove, Inverness, Nova Scotia, Canada

Birth Date: 02 Jun 1870

Secondary Event Type: Birth

Secondary Event Date: 02 Jun 1870

Father: Archie Macfarlane        

Mother: Mary Macfarlane

Name: Catherine Macdonald   

Gender: Female

Event Type: Baptism

Event Date: 18 Jun 1872

Event Place: St. John the Baptist, Brook Village, Inverness, Nova Scotia, Canada

Birth Date: 04 Jun 1872

Father: Donald Macdonald

Mother: Ann Macfarlane

Name: Marie Anne Mcfarlane  

Gender: Female

Event Type: Baptism

Event Date: 20 Feb 1845

Event Place: Holy Guardian Angels, L'Ardoise, Richmond, Nova Scotia, Canada

Birth Date: 16 Mar 1844

Secondary Event Type: Birth

Secondary Event Date: 16 Mar 1844

Father: Archibald Mcfarlane

Mother: Julie Mcdonald

Name: Isabella Effie Mcmaster

Gender: Female

Event Type: Baptism

Event Date: 14 Aug 1892

Event Place: St. Joseph, Port Hawkesbury, Inverness, Nova Scotia, Canada

Birth Date: 28 Jul 1892

Secondary Event Type: Birth

Secondary Event Date: 28 Jul 1892

Father: James Mcmaster

Mother: Sarah Mcfarlane

Name: John Mahoney  

Gender: Male

Event Type: Marriage

Event Date: 31 Jul 1883

Event Place: St. Ninian's Cathedral, Antigonish, Antigonish, Nova Scotia, Canada

Spouse: Sarah Mcfarlane

Name: Angus Cameron

Gender: Male

Event Type: Marriage

Event Date: 23 Sep 1884

Event Place: St. Andrew's, St. Andrews, Antigonish, Nova Scotia, Canada

Spouse: Mary Jane Mcfarlane

Name: Donald Mclellan           

Gender: Male

Event Type: Marriage

Event Date: 02 Aug 1864

Event Place: St. Margaret of Scotland, Broad Cove, Inverness, Nova Scotia, Canada

Father: Angus Mclellan

Mother:

Spouse: Elizabeth Mcfarlane

Name: John R Mcdonald         

Gender: Male

Event Type: Marriage

Event Date: 14 Jul 1885

Event Place: St. Andrew's, St. Andrews, Antigonish, Nova Scotia, Canada

Spouse: Mary Ann Mcfarlane

Name: John Mcfarlane 

Gender: Male

Event Type: Marriage

Event Date: 24 Apr 1898

Event Place: St. John the Baptist, Brook Village, Inverness, Nova Scotia, Canada

Spouse: Catherine E Gillis

Name: Elizabeth Mcmillan        

Gender: Female

Event Type: Baptism

Event Date: 1904

Event Place: St. Peter's, Port Hood, Inverness, Nova Scotia, Canada

Birth Date: 1884

Father: Norman Mcmillan

Mother: Margaret Mcfarlane

Name: Hugh Cameron Mcfarlane

Gender: Male

Event Type: Marriage

Event Date: 06 Mar 1905

Event Place: Sacred Heart, Sydney, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, Canada

Spouse: Margaret Forestall

Name: Mary Mcadam 

Gender: Female

Event Type: Death

Event Date:

Event Place: St. Margaret of Scotland, Arisaig, Antigonish, Nova Scotia, Canada

Father: Hugh Mcfarlane

Mother: Ann Mcdonald

Name: John Mcpharlane (sic)

Gender: Male

Event Type: Baptism

Event Date: 25 May 1857

Event Place: St. Andrew's, St. Andrews, Antigonish, Nova Scotia, Canada

Birth Date: 24 May 1857

Father: John Mcpharlane

Mother: Mary Mcgilvray

Name: Caty Ann Maclellan

Gender: Female

Event Type: Baptism

Event Date: 18 Aug 1867

Event Place: St. Margaret of Scotland, Broad Cove, Inverness, Nova Scotia, Canada

Birth Date: 02 Aug 1867

Secondary Event Type: Birth

Secondary Event Date: 02 Aug 1867

Father: Hugh Maclellan

Mother: Mary Macfarlane

Name: Catherine Sarah Mcfarlane

Gender: Female

Event Type: Baptism

Event Date: 30 Mar 1846

Event Place: Holy Guardian Angels, L'Ardoise, Richmond, Nova Scotia, Canada

Birth Date: 14 Dec 1845

Birthplace: Not Given

Secondary Event Type: Birth

Secondary Event Date: 14 Dec 1845

Father: Archibald Mcfarlane

Mother: Julie Mcdonald

Name: Genevieve Mcfarlane    

Gender: Female

Event Type: Baptism

Event Date: 20 Feb 1845

Event Place: Holy Guardian Angels, L'Ardoise, Richmond, Nova Scotia, Canada

Birth Date: 1842

Secondary Event Type: Birth

Secondary Event Date: 1842

Father: Archibald Mcfarlane

Mother: Julliet Mcdonald

Name: Mary Jane Mcfarlane    

Gender: Female

Event Type: Baptism

Event Date: 19 Nov 1861

Event Place: St. Andrew's, St. Andrews, Antigonish, Nova Scotia, Canada

Birth Date: 18 Nov 1861

Father: Peter Mcfarlane

Mother: Catherine Mcisaa

Name: Peter Mcfarlane

Gender: Male

Event Type: Baptism

Event Date: 11 Sep 1866

Event Place: St. Andrew's, St. Andrews, Antigonish, Nova Scotia, Canada

Birth Date: 09 Sep 1866

Father: Peter Mcfarlane

Mother: Catherine Mcisaac

Name: Catherine Mcfarlane     

Gender: Female

Event Type: Baptism

Event Date: 19 Dec 1873

Event Place: St. Andrew's, St. Andrews, Antigonish, Nova Scotia, Canada

Father: Andrew Mcfarlane       

Mother: Catherine Mcpherson

Final part of HICUZ 79

Back across the pond

I’ve captured a list of other Wroes from merry ole England, near Manchester that are not in my personal line, but are definitely in some of our Wroe cousins in England.

The data came from http://www.familysearch.org/ , merely plugging in the Wroe family name along with a few names which traditionally re-occurred in my family, Richard, James, William, Thomas, and John. The data came back and was captured off the screen. This level of data was all free, though one could subscribe and get additional data. This level of data, however, let me find some obvious family connections, mainly siblings of known ancestors in my line. Additionally, the data provided film and index numbers which hopefully will allow you cousins out there to rent the films through a nearby Family History Center (or centre for those cousins across the pond), and get all the additional info to fill out family group sheets and thus save the info for posterity.  Here is a website offering free downloads of various genealogy forms - http://www.genealogysearch.org/free/forms.html

I will provide copies to Wroe cousins upon request. I urge the families of Wendy, T. David, Julian, Joyce, Doreen, Bart, George, Phil, William, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera to delve into this further… and to check my analysis.  AND – to see if it links the following families of Manchester to your, or my Wroe line – Cheetham (or Chetham), Ravalde, Brown (or Browne), Hayes (or Heyes of Salford), Washingtons, Popes, Weedons, Chancellors, Monroes, Plant, Shepley, Stansfield, Porter (in around Bradford), etc etc etc Watch for use of “Original” as a given (first) name, particularly in Brown/Browne line.

FUTURE CHALLENGE-

One can also capture a great number of snail mail addresses for Wroes living in and around Manchester from http://www.192.com/ . The data needs to be shifted for possible connection to known lines. I hope to send a form letter to a few of these Wroe families – as I did about fifteen years ago – to see if perchance serendipity happens and we discover a connection. Watch for this to happen in about a year or so… or try it yourself.

A PAST ATTEMPT at connecting  - I placed the following personal ad in the Manchester Evening News (MENS) in 2009, asking for help. Mentioned as an approach you might try.

In Touch

Readers' letters from Saturday 05 Sep 2009

QUOTE - I am hoping to find descendants of Richard Wroe, born Cheetham, June 29 1800, married Margaret Stansfield. He was a weaver and carder in Bradford, Manchester. His siblings (all born in Cheetham) included James, Thomas, Sarah and John. One of Richard’s sons was my paternal great grandfather Thomas Wroe/Rowe, born March 8, 1830.  Don Rowe rowboatdon@yahoo.com  UNQUOTE

The MENS site allows each of you to search for surnames – Wroe, Davies, Porter, etc. etc. etc. and hopefully discover relatives. I have received no replies thus far. The link is - http://menmedia.co.uk/manchestereveningnews/comment/in_touch/2009/09/05

NEW SUBJECT

I recently rejoined the Manchester Liverpool Family History Society (MLFHS) in Dec 2010. In one of their Internet postings I detected a Dennis Stansfield as a fellow member. I sent off a quick e-mail identifying a potential family connection, as my great great-grandfather Richard Wroe (born 1800 in Manchester, Lancashire) had married a Margaret Stansfield (born in Workington, Cumberland). We emailed each other and alas it proved (March 2011) there is no apparent connection.  

As a MLFHS member I subscribed to their posting of enquiries, and now share a few  from the MLFHS website as potential approaches for your research.

UK, Royal Navy and Royal Marine War Graves Roll, 1914-1919

Ancestry added this series of records recently, you can search by keywords so you can search a place name - not foolproof because will also match if the name appears anywhere else in the record like surname. Subjects are bolded and underlined. Personal identifiers removed.

MLFHS: Catholic Records Index

I have now completed the work on St Wilfrid's RC Church, Hulme baptisms by updating the Catholic Records Index (Data-Online Data menu on MLFHS home page) to include all of the names which appear in the transcript. This extends the previous coverage 1842-1862 up to 1907 and adds something like 80,000 more names.

Full details can be found, of course, on the recently published CD - see:
http://www.bookshop.mlfhs.co.uk/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=1_3&products_id=1308

LDS (Latter Day Saints, i.e. Mormons) research site changes - In case you're not already aware of it, this information is very helpful in understanding the new LDS site, what it does and doesn't do, and how to continue to access the old data:

http://broadcast.lds.org/elearning/FHD/Local_Support/Consultant/Interactive_Guide/Adjusting_to_the_new_version.pdf

1911 Irish (Republic of) and UK census data now available online

Not sure if been mentioned here before but a comment about finding burial places jogged my memory.  If you find the name of a cemetery but not sure where it is then worth trying on the In From The Cold website, you can search on part of the name of a cemetery and it will display an aerial view of the cemetery.
> http://www.infromthecold.org/war_grave_cemeteries.asp

Lancashire OPC - It stands for "Online Parish Clerk".  See  http://www.lan-opc.org.uk/ for the Lancashire project - there are others covering other parts of the country. This indicates  English Parishes where volunteers do research for you. A great asset.

Subject:

National Archives: Census of Ireland 1911

I wanted to share this link with you.  The Irish 1911 census was just published.  You can select the 1901 census with this link as well.  

http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/search/

New Virginia Freedmen Bureau Records On Line
Without fanfare the Family Search Beta site has released a set of records entitled Virginia , Freedmen's Bureau Letters, 1865 - 1872.  Attempting to respond to a query by someone on Afrigeneas.com, I tried to locate the document she had posted, which she had said was part of the Freedmen's Bureau Letters 1865-1872.  I Googled that term and it took me to the Family Search Beta site.  Although I found the record she cited with the person she mentioned, I was not sure where I was in the Bureau records, by last night I had figured it out....what Family Search had released was Record Group 105 of the Records of the Field Offices for the State of Virginia, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands, 1865-1872......... Indexed by Name and digital images, over 800, 000 images on 203 reels of microfilm.  A Gold Mine for African American Researchers (and not just Virginia Researchers).

It is incorrect to say that those who were enslaved are not in the records prior April 1865 and the end of the Civil War and the general emancipation, look at any county court record where "property" is listed wills, deeds, we are there...but those enslaved individuals do not speak for themselves....in these FB Records many of the people we seek "Speak for Themselves"... give their names, their children's names, wives, go to court, make labor contracts, complain about their treatment as Free Men and Women, ask for transport back to their homes after they had run to Union held territory in VA to contraband camps, marry, take a census...too many other things for me to mention.

In 1993 James Walker (http://www.aagsnc.org/articles/walker.htm), co-founder of AAHGS and Archivist at the National Archives had spoken to our AAHGS Chapter about the historical value and the immense wealth of information of these records and implored us to go and see them.  A couple of months later I did have an opportunity to see some of them.   They were not microfilmed and in their original state, I was overwhelmed.  In the early 2000's these records were microfilmed. The VA records took 203 reels of microfilm to complete.

These documents not only tell the story of OUR participation in Virginia's and the Nation's history at a most crucial time period, but others as well,  Freedmen Bureau officials, White Virginians and ALL  who had contact with the Bureau, for whatever reason.

I can't promise you that everyone will find what they are looking, nor will it be easy to maneuver thru this site (I have been working on it all day) but it is an incredible resource.  I strongly suggest that you look at the Descriptive Pamphlet which describes what is in this Record set and gives a general description of what is on each reel...this is a link to the Pamphlet at NARA:

http://www.archives.gov/research/microfilm/m1913.pdf

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Consider your High School yearbook as a potential source of information.

1940 US Federal Census - The Archives will not be providing microfilm of the 1940 census, but it will be available digitally.  Here's the scoop directly from NARA (National Archives and Records Administration):

[Genealib] Old Cherokee Families: Notes of Dr. Emett Starr

This book is free online at: http://www.accessgenealogy/  You will find it in the section Native American Records

Lancashire BMD data

New data has been added at www.lancashirebmd.org.uk as follows:

Added 5,628 Births for Bury RD comprising: Bury South (1874-1879); Elton (1888-1889); Radcliffe (1885-1893)

Amended 4,626 Births for Blackburn RD to include mother's maiden name, comprising: Blackburn Northern (1901-1904)

Added 6,714 Deaths for Burnley RD comprising: Nelson (1923-1936)

ACCESS THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES THROUGH FOOTNOTE.COM

The National Archives is America 's information storehouse, collecting data on millions of residents who served in the military, arrived on passenger ships, took up federal lands, or were alive at the time of each decennial census.   
The Archives has a contract with Footnote.com to digitize many of its collections and make them available on the Internet.  In addition Footnote has loaded images of historic newspapers and city directories.  A subscription is required, but some of the content is accessible free.

BMD – Birth, Marriage and Death records

There has been a burst of quiet development by Councils to provide online ordering services for BMD certificates. Services are now offered by:
Lancashire CC (covers Burnley, Chorley, Hyndburn, Lancaster, Preston & S Ribble, Ribble Valley and W. Lancashire.

(This has been around for a while and is linked into LancashireBMD) Bolton Liverpool Manchester Salford Sefton (covers North and South Sefton) Tameside Trafford. We are looking at the possibility of linking some of these to the LancashireBMD order page.

You can find the individual links by Googling the individual register office sites, but for convenience, I have added a new 'Online Certificate Ordering' selection to the MLFHS Toolbar under the 'BMD' menu.

Cheshire BMD has been updated to add:

Marriages:
28 for Morley Green, United Reform Church, registers at Cheshire East (1993-2007)
134 for Wilmslow, Sacred Heart St Teresa RC, registers at Cheshire East (1990-2004)
1,490 for Wilmslow, Unitarian Church (Dean Row), registers at Cheshire East (1975-1995)
1,820 for Macclesfield, Civil Marriage, registers at Cheshire East (1997-2004)
1,769 for Cheadle, St Mary, registers at Stockport (1953-1975)
 
MLFHS: RAILWAY STAFF DATABASE & RAILWAY COMPANY DETAILS, Release Ver.    3

I was wondering whether anyone has access to the above CD. I have been trying to
track down the staff records for the NER and hope this CD might give the first
clue. I am looking for any entries relating to Joseph Bulmer around 1845 to 1860. He
was variously described as a railway labourer and railway waggoner.

Recall that Great Grampa Thomas Wroe worked as a railway labourer in 1851.

                                          SIBLINGS of Thomas Wroe (Rowe)

Name	CHR Date (Christening)	poss marr  date	to whom	marr age
Sarah Wroe	23 Aug 1822	8 Feb 1842	Thomas Johnson	20
		13 Jul 1844	John Collier	22
		19 Oct 1845	Richard Spencer	23
		17 Dec 1846	Wm. Vincent Hodgson	24
		29 Aug 1852	George Nuttall	30
James Wroe	16 Dec 1825	11 Feb 1849	Mary Porter	24
	Richard Wroe	b Jun/Jul 1850	10 mos in 1851 census
Elizabeth Wroe	1 Feb 1828	1848/49	Thomas Davies	20  /21
	Mary Davies	1849	2 yrs in 1851 census
	William Davies	Jan/Feb  1851	2 mos in 1851 census
Thomas Wroe	8 Mar 1830	1851/52	Mary Ellen Meagher	21  /22
William Wroe	27 May 1832	15 Jul 1850	Mary Eliz. Ollerenshaw	18
John Wroe	31 Aug 1834	28 Feb 1853	Mary Morton	19
		3 Oct 1858	Margaret Boyne	24
Mary Wroe	23 Apr 1837	20 Jan 1857	Robert Taylor	20
? Mary Ann Wroe		20 Feb 1860	Robert Taylor	23
Jane Wroe	b 16 Jan 1839 c 10 or 23 Feb	11 Sep 1860	George Brocklehurst	21
		25 Dec 1874	John Bostock	35

            Great Gramma Mary Ellen and Great Grampa Thomas are bolded above