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I have found a record that suggests my relations Jane and John Watts were in a poorhouse along with children Ellen and Rachel Watts in Liverpool about 1866/67. Does anyone know where is best to see if there are any records with more details? what I have got from find my past is quite limited and jus...

I've been having a think on this and now have a bit of a theory although not sure how to go about proving it. If John was a mariner then might it have been possible that he went missing at sea or died and was burried at sea. Does anyone know if this was the case would records have been kept or would...

Thank you for that. That certainly looks like our Jane and now raises a couple of possibilities I can pursue. It narrows down John's death to between circa 1875 and 1881 if Jane was a widow by then. When Rachel and Ellen married they said John was a miner but by the time Leah married in 1896 she put...

I feel like i have completely hit a brick wall with Jane George and John Watts, my GG Grandparents. Jane was born in St Austell Cornwall around about 1836. This I have gleaned from the couple of census records I have been able to find. When her two daughters Rachel (1852) and Ellen (1854) were born ...

Hi, Just joined up here but been researching for a year or so. My mum had heard about her Grandmother being brought up in a workhouse in Liverpool and this intrigued us. Main names are BARK, WATTS, GEORGE and MACALISTER. Main areas are several areas in Scotland,(MacAlister, Bark) Liverpool (Bark, Wa...