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Janey,

Born in Northampton because that was were the maternity hospital was but lived in a small village about 20miles outside "the big city". Never heard it called that before.
We also have Kent (Mum) and Essex (husband) in common.

Sue

So were you from the big city then?

Unfortunately, when my mum and I visited, we knew none of this. No online searchable genealogy databases in 1994! So we knew Wellingborough because of the cousin there, and that my father's parents had married there. And we knew where my mum's parents were born (Mansfield and East Ham). But I knew nothing of any of the rest.

If and when I visit again, it's going to be a three-month undertaking. That's just for starters, in Northamptonshire. There are multiple ancestral sites in Devon and Cornwall, Nottinghamshire, Cheshire and Leicestershire, east and south London and Essex, Wiltshire and Kent ... and that's just as far back as the great-grandparents! One set of grandparents met and married in Canada so have no shared ancestral geography, and the other met and married in England via him serving with her brother in WWI, so again, no geographical connection. I'll be getting my money's worth out of that Britrail pass. ;)

I was born in Northampton and although I have visited Wellingborough must confess I don't know that much about it.
Not surprised about ancestors occupations. Shoe making was big in the county for a long time. My OH even spent a couple of years doing it.
Went to Guide Camp at Cold Ashby once and to a Steam Fair at Welford.(OH into traction engines and being young and in love!!!!).
Small world isn't it.
Live in Cumbria now but get down there occasionally to visit family.

Sue

Wellingborough area. My dad's cousin in Wellingborough area (grandchild of Eliza Jane in that list, like my dad) lives there, and is the one family member my nan was able to keep in touch with. My nan had come here as a young married woman and my grandfather wasn't much for encouraging contact with family. Her niece, my dad's cousin, visited Canada a couple of times. And when my mum and I travelled to England 15 years ago, we spent a couple of days in Wellingborough.

Apparently youngest child William, who also immigrated to Canada (although my nan never spoke of him - I found his grandson here at GR!), just missed sailing on the Titanic. Or so the family story goes. ;)

That's the Carter (Rushden) and Craddock (Irchester) side.

The other Northamptonshire families are Campion (Cold Ashby) and Kenny (Welford).

Ag labs and then shoe factory workers all!

Janey,

What part of Northamtonshire?
That's where I was born, many moons ago

Sue

That's funny. If mine weren't in Northamptonshire, I'd swear they moved in the same social circles!

I wonder whether yours didn't get religion along with the baby-name book, though. ;)

Hi Janey ,
You might be right about the baby name book.I reckon my lot borrowed it from your family.
First 4 names
Mary
John
Winifred
Margaret
then we moved on to
Joseph
not too far out there but then we had
Walburge
Nicholas
Leo
Michael Ignatius ( could be that RC thing you were on about Lancashire Ann)
then back to
Frances.

Regards

Sue

There you go, a saint!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_of_St._Walburge,_Preston

St Walburge's is dedicated to Saint Walpurga, an English saint, born 710 AD., daughter of St. Richard, a Saxon King. With her two brothers St. Willibald and St. Winebald, she went to Germany as a missionary. She was renowned for her miraculous healing of illnesses. The church is part of the Catholic revival that transpired during the time of England's Catholic emancipation.

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Maybe your people were like one set of my grx2 grandparents. Their first five kids (in no particular order; I can never remember) were

Mary Ann
Mary Jane
Eliza Ann
Eliza Jane
Ann Maria

and then I figure somebody handed them a baby-name book, because the next three were

Georgina
Virginia
Tryphoena

and then they finally got what they were aiming for

William

and stopped. ;)

where the family by any chance RC - There is a Church in Preston called St Walburgh(e) which is famous in that the spire is the tallest of any parish church in England.

Maybe they were just proud citizens - after all the symbol of Preston is PP = Proud Preston

Hi Roy,

I know, I was quite disappointed as well. I keep hoping for something a bit out of the ordinary to come along but we seem to be a very down to earth family who just occasionally feel the need to break out and even then the most exciting thing we do is throw an exotic sounding name into the mix.

Never mind...upwards and onwards as they say.

Regards

Sue

Hi Janey,

Yes I see what you mean. Not as un-comman a christian name as you might think.
Still pretty exotic for my family though who seemed to go in for "good honest english" christian names

Regards

Sue

Hi Roy,

Tyson is her mothers maiden name. On the 1901 census she is Walburge Magdaline Potter and that is how she was registered but she was also known to use her mothers surname sometimes.
Regards
Sue

Just for interest, if you do a general search of FreeBMD for all events, all times, all places, for given name

WALBURG*

there are dozens. Wallburga and Wallburge look about evenly split, with some Walburg-s. Male version maybe? They're very heavily concentrated in Lancashire.

A few more for WALLBURG* too.

Hi everyone,
Have found her in FreeBMD.She was there all along just couldn't see the wood for the trees.
Her full name is Walburge Magdeline Potter. What a mouthfull and after a Mary,Winifred and Margaret what on earth made her parents go for something so very different.

Thanks for all help

Sue

Hi Roy,

Her family is Lancastrian through and through.Her father worked in the cotton mills. She was born in Preston and even if the christian name is correct I can't find a record of her birth anywhere.

Hi Astra

She is living with her mother Margaret Potter born 1853 in Conniston and her sister Winifred bn 1879 in Liverpool along with a few other siblings.

Sue

Can you give details of who she is living with please. Can't seem to locate her

Hi,
Please could someone take a look at the 1901 census and look up Walburga M Tyson bn 1884 in Preston and tell me if they think that is really her christian name or offer any alternatives. I have had a look on FreeBMD and cannot find it or anything that looks like it for her year of birth.
Any suggestions gratefully received

Thanks
Sue