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Tempest wrote:Has anyone used the “British Armed Forces And Overseas Births And Baptisms”?
My wife has an ancestor called Isaac Cheetham, on every source I’ve found he is born 1812 in Nottingham. I can’t find his birth record, but if I open the search to +/-5 years and no location the only entry that pops up is on this forces register but born 1816 and in Dover! Frustratingly no parents are given. Regiment is given as 40th Foot Regiment. Interestingly Isaac later served with the 30th Foot.
Is there a way of looking further into these records? Could it be just when the birth was registered and not the actual birth date?
TIA
Tempest wrote:Hi Gardener, this Isaac Cheetham has intrigued me so much I wouldn't mind paying!! I guess its a GRO thing?
Yes my Isaac Cheetham did indeed marry Mary Tierney, she was Irish, I think he must have met her while serving with the 30th Foot Regiment there, they had a child, but it was a son Edward Cheetham born 1832 in Ireland not a daughter. He then got posted off to Bermuda with the Regiment. He was invalided out (don't know what happened?) and he and Mary then married in 1835 in Beeston, Nottingham (don't know what the Beeston connection is?)
I don't know of this Elizabeth you mention?
Thanks
Tempest wrote:Your first two census entries are correct, and that is how I came to the conclusion of Mary No.3
I have that marriage certificate, it actually came yesterday but it just adds to the mystery of the situation. Although Isaac is living at 12 Rutland street as per census, and Mary Hardy is living next door, her mother must be that Hannah West. So yes as you say Mary Hardy by marriage and now a widow. Accepting all that the marriage certificate I have gives marriage 7 July 1875. Isaac Cheetham age 60, Widowed, a Storekeeper (as he is on the census) but both he and Mary Hardy give their address as Warser Gate (a different part of Nottingham City Centre!) His father is Edward Cheetham (died) profession J.W.K (don't know what that means?). Mary Hardy 39, Spinster (why when she was widowed?) address same as Isaac, father John Hardy (died) even though I'm convinced her father must be a West and profession Dentist.
Also arrived yesterday is a Birth Cert for this couples only child (Isaac's 12th) 9 February 1897 12, Rutland Street, father Isaac Cheetham, mother Mary Cheetham formerly Hardy, father occupation, Storekeeper.
I had Mary West marrying Edwin Hardy May 1867
I'll look into the Isaac Cheetham Baptism see if that works
to answer you question this all helps, but can't help thinking there's some sculduggery going on with Isaac family affairs, still no idea what happened to 1st wife Mary Tierney and for that matter this Mary from Rochester, Kent his 2nd? wife.
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