[List-Cumbria] Schoolbook 1909

[Peter Graydon]

Hi

Thank you all for the information, it has triggered a flurry of activity 
on various search sites by my own genealogist, my wife!

Liz has spent over twenty years researching her side of the family 
mainly around Kent and Sussex, where we are now based and, at times 
adding some of my rather feeble research into the mix. We both did DNA 
tests and this has rekindled my own interests as well as a nudge to get 
sorting out the stuff I had from my parents hence my query.

When Dad died in 1996 we found out that Mum had dementia so I recovered 
what family material was around in preparation for her move from 
Liverpool down to Barnet near my late sister. The book came in to my 
care along with another book, which is dated and named and belongs to 
one of my known predecessors William Sewell Nicholson.

The Mrs.Graydon mentioned in the front is, we are now certain, my Great 
grandmother Margaret Jane Graydon nee Nicholson, a widow for 3 years, 
who was living in marine Villas, Port Carlisle at the time with my 
grandfather. The research done by my wife has tracked both Martha Jane 
and Margaret to the same area of Manchester and both of roughly the same 
age. We can only assume that this is where their friendship began. I 
have a list of the children and their ages in 1838 and the one of 
interest to me is Margaret Irving, my great great grandmother which is 
why we think Margaret had the book.

List of children and ages

Jane Wood, 10

Mary Pattinson, 12

Mary Backhouse, 11

Anne Backhouse, 14

Margaret Irving, 13

Mary Anne Wood, 12

Robert Littleton, 12

David Thomson, 15

William Carruthers, 12

John Lawson, 14

William Logan, 14

The book is in a reasonable state considering it is over 100 years old 
but I won't be able to copy any pages as I don't think there is any way 
of scanning them without risking damage to the spine and bindings.

I am fascinated and amazed at how much knowledge there is in the groups 
and, having been retired about four years, I think I might need to add 
extending my family tree, guided as always by my wife, to my list of  
'things to do in your retirement'!

Thank you to all those who have helped

Stay safe and keep well

PeterG