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From: "Nigel Hunter" <>
Subject: Re: [WES] Railway building help appreciated
Date: Sat, 01 Nov 2003 09:48:17 +0000


Hi Frances,

This link may help: http://www.furnessrailwaytrust.org.uk/frco.htm

Cheers - Nigel


>From: "FMB" <>
>Reply-To:
>To:
>Subject: [WES] Railway building help appreciated
>Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2003 22:49:43 -0000
>
>Nathaniel Josiah PINNEGAR b 1822 Stonehouse, Glos. was a railway labourer.
>He was married twice and with help have fortunately sorted all the second
>family out. Including those born at Scott House, Warcop, and Appleby.
>However, it is his first family that are proving a problem.
>
>His marriage to Mary SANDERSON nee FAWCETT was in Kendal in 1846 and their
>first child was born 1847 in Penrith, and another child Edward was born
>1855
>in Ulverstone, Lancs. Neither dates helpful for finding this family in the
>census.
>
>My plea is, does anybody know where railway building was taking place in
>1851 and 1861 at the time of the censuses, so that I might perhaps search
>for them. 1, to find out more about his first wife as I have yet to find a
>death for her, and 2, to find out if there were any more children, it is
>believed that there is at least one more.
>
>Edward was with his second family in 1871, and descendants of his, I
>believe
>still live up in Barrow in Furness. Although Edward himself returned to
>Ulverstone, where he was in 1881 and 1901, I believe there may still be
>some
>family there.
>
>While I realise that it should be a fairly easy name to research, it has
>proved difficult, because of spelling errors, and in fact it is only
>recently that we have finally located the last birth certificate of the
>second family, after many years of hunting.
>
>The 1901 census variations, were fun trying to find them all, but we did it
>in the end.
>
>Any help would be very much appreciated.
>
>Frances
>
>
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