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From: "john cullwick" <>
Subject: [ULV:] Blain-Goad
Date: Sat, 21 Dec 2002 00:54:11 -0800
References: <F160GjyfBf88Vtu2xqL000044ea@hotmail.com>


> I have always believed that Grt Grandfather THOMAS GOAD BLAIN had some
> connection with Ulverston. Now I find that his 2nd child JOSEPHINE GOAD
> BLAIN was born in Ulverston 31 March 1873. The address is just FairView
> Ulverston.

Hello Barbara in Cheshire

What a posh family you have! You may have all of the following info
already, so apologies if you have.

In 1881 census at Troutbeck Cottage, Troutbeck, Westmorland we have:

John BIGLAND, head, widower, 66, b Liverpool, retired broker
Julia S BIGLAND, dau, unmd, 27, b New Brighton
Hn G PRINGLE, sister-in-law, unmd, 57, b Liverpool
Josephine G BLAIN, granddaughter, 7, B Ulverston, scholar
Mary Ann DENT, servant, unmd, 22, b Staveley, Westmorland

And at Beeston Lodge, Tiverton (?), Cheshire (presumably one of the Lodge
Houses to Beeston Castle), we have:

Samuel BLAIN, head, md, 55, b Liverpool, retired merchant
Eliza BLAIN, wife, 48, b York
Constance E BLAIN, dau, 8, b Liverpool, scholar
William BLAIN, son, 4, b Tarporley, scholar
Elizabeth POWELL, servant, unmd, 25, b Malpas, cook
Mira JUKES, servant, unmd, 21, b Halton, Cheshire, waitress
Julia GRAVILLIER, servant, unmd, 27, b Switzerland, nurse

There is a marriage of Thomas Goad BLAIN to Henrietta Gray BIGLAND in
Birkenhead in the March 1871 quarter on Free BMD. But cannot find these two
or their family on the 1881 census at all.

On Free BMD, there is a death on June 1891 quarter of John BIGLAND, aged 76.
In Cheltenham unfortunately, but still possible.

It looks to me as if Samuel has had an earlier family, then married Eliza
about 1870 and had Constance and William and moved from Liverpool to Beeston
Lodge about 1875.

The only other clues I saw were that BIGLAND seems to be quite common round
the Ulverston area, so I suspect John BIGLAND returned to his roots - even
though he was born in Liverpool himself back about 1814.

It would be my guess that Josephine's parents Thomas and Henrietta were
travelling abroad at the time of the census. Perhaps Josephine was to young
to travel.

And there is an adult baptism of someone called BLAIN in the right sort of
area on the IGI. Not sure if Quakers baptised people over 21, but the
Baptists did of course.

Hope there is a clue there for you.

Best wishes, John Cullwick


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