Photo Album-England
My
Youth (in Colne, Lancashire)
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I have recently been talking to a distant
cousin, Bob Rainford, who is a few years younger than me who was able to tell me
a little about some of my Canadian cousins that he met in Vancouver and Whistler
when he went earlier this year. Jean and I are also visiting Canada in August,
so this may be an opportunity to improve my knowledge of Genealogy!
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This was my Grandmother, Mary
Ann Lee (nee Sanderson) at her house gate in
Trawden. Sadly, she died before I was born in 1939 at the age of just 54, so I never knew her.
Her mother (Bob tells me) was Mary Ann Lancaster.
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My mum is the little girl on the left with
her mother and Uncle Jim Sanderson, who I believe, went off to Canada after the
first world war.
Aldergrove, British
Columbia to be precise.
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Here's a couple of photographs of the
log cabin built by one of the Sanderson brothers in the early 1920's in
Gypsumville, north of Winnipeg. Check out the outside 'lavvy' on the
right hand pic!.
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Auntie Muriel and her fiancée, Fred.
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I think my mum is
the one in the middle. I would like to know who the others are. Maybe my
cousins in Canada can help! |
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This is a really nice picture of Mum and
Tom with Fribbie, their Chow,
which must have been taken just before the War started. Margaret Laycock
(93 in 2003) remembers:
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'She remembers meeting Tom one day when out
walking with Jean (her daughter) who was then
a toddler and he said that they (Tom and my mum) were hoping to
start a family soon. She also said that Tom
was a very nice man. She thought that he was
about the same age as her.' |
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My mum's wedding to Tom Baker, who died in
November 1942 in the North Africa campaign. I think the lady on the left
was 'Florrie' Baker. Uncle Fred and Auntie Mary are on my mums left. |
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Mum and her new husband, Stanley Czajczyk, one of the
many Poles who spent much of the war in exile here in the UK.
This was taken in Avondale, the house in Trawden where I
was born.
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| There is a family tree in process
of being made by my second cousins twice removed in Canada. In the mean
time, I have cobbled together one that is slightly better than no tree at
all. Download it in Acrobat form by clicking here. |
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interest to genealogists] 'The Richard there looks
like a brother of my William Henry Lancaster who went to Australia via
Manchester. That Richard was born in Hebden Bridge in 1791, but if my great
uncle is correct this Richard died in 1837. (This based upon a prayer book.)
I see a similar looking family (Richard b. Colne and Betsy) in the 1851
census but the Richard is now a Sexton to the Church. Children at home were
Ann, Jane, Richard, Thomas, Charles.
Another family in the area at the time, who might be related to my family
further back, was the one from Gisburn. This is on another webpage:
http://www.thornber.org/
The marriage looks like it might be this one which I found on my VRI CD:
LANCASTER, Richard Marriage
Wife: Betty FOULDS
Marriage Date: 11 May 1809 Recorded in: Colne, Lancashire, England
Collection: St Bartholomew
Source: FHL Film 1471065 Dates: 1805 - 1862
I just do not see Richard's baptism yet. Maybe his family were
non-conformist.
Regards
Andrew
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John wrote:
I wonder if I can assume that the marriage and baptisms were in Colne?
Fred Stringer wrote:
James Lancaster, full age, married Margaret Holden, minor, on 22 August
1848. Fathers were Richard Lancaster, gardener , John Holden, weaver.
Children as follows
Peter baptised 18 May 1851, John born 20 July 1852 baptised 16 Jan 1853,
Emily born 23 Nov 1854 baptised 6 April 1855, Joseph born 3 June 1856
baptised 10 April 1857, Elizabeth born 19 Nov 1858 baptised 22 April 1859
Mary Ann born 30 Aug 1861 Baptised 18 May 1862, Richard born 7 April 1864
baptised 10 July 1864.
John Burns wrote:
The earliest I have is James Lancaster who married Margaret. Both were born
in Colne about 1828. They had 7 children.
...in Colne about these dates; Peter 1851, John 1853 , Emily 1853, Joseph,
Mary Ann, Richard, James 1868.
Both James' were stonemasons.' |
    
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