[List-Cumbria] Schoolbook 1909

[Alan@cartar.com]

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On Thu, May 14, 2020 at 3:22 PM Peter Graydon via List-Cumbria <
list-cumbria at cumbriafhs.com> wrote:

> 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
>
>
>
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Alan

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