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From: "Don Sutherland" <>
Subject: [CHS] Langford Brick Wall
Date: Wed, 28 Dec 2011 11:48:08 +1100
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Hoping someone can help with some New Year joy. We have long been searching
for some clues to the ancestry of Thomas LANGFORD who married Mary
SIDEBOTTOM at Mottram-in-Longdendale on 10 Jan 1798. They both lived at
nearby Hollingworth. Thomas is thought to have come from a large family as
it has been claimed that he was a seventh son. However we have not been able
to find any trace of his ancestral family around Mottram. We know of
LANGFORD families around Chester and others much closer at
Ashton-Under-Lynne, just over the then county border in Lancashire, however
we have not been able to link him with any of these.

We have recently discovered a Thomas LANGFORD who was born in 1768 at
Ashbourne, the son of William LANGFORD and Sarah PEACH. The age of this
Thomas fits, he does come from a large family and many of the names of his
parents and siblings appear in the also large family produced by my Thomas
LANGFORD and Mary SIDEBOTTOM at Mottram. Because Ashbourne is just some 40
or so miles south of Mottram and because nothing further is known of the
Ashbourne Thomas LANGFORD around that area, it seems quite possible that he
could be the same Thomas LANGFORD who married at Mottram in 1798. However we
have not been able to find any evidence to confirm or disprove this theory.

I long to hear from anyone who knows anything of either of these Thomas', or
can advise how I might learn more of them. We would love to be able to smash
through this big brick wall we have been scratching at for so many years.

Don Sutherland,
Victoria, Australia

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