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I have a birth cert for Richard born on 23/5/1881 in Easington stating his father was William Hughes - Coal miner and mother was Margaret Hughes formally Hughes. Richard went to marry Martha Straughan.

But I have contacted a GR member who I thought was connected & she claims her Richard is not the same as mine & that were 2 Richard Hughes living the area at the same time. Hers married a Hannah.

I thought my Richards siblings were Eliza b1874, Sarah b1875 both in Crewe, then Mary b1878, John Thomas b 1883, Benjamin b1885, Hugh b1888, Robert b1890 and Maria b1896 all born around Hetton/Easington in Durham.

But now this GR member has added Eliza and Sarah to her family tree and so now I'm not sure who is right or wrong!!

I also have a marriage cert for William and Margaret for 27/6/1874 at St Paul, Crewe but the ages don't tally with the census details!!

Please can anyone help?? :-S

Ok thanks!
So I have got the right set of people then and the GR member has added them to her tree wrongly!
just need to find out if the marriage cert that I have for Richard's parents is the right one now!
On the cert it states that William was 21 and Margaret was 20 when they married in 1874 but all the census' state that there was about 10 or 11 years between them!

Tracy :-D

1891 the one you have
Reg. District: Easington Sub District: Easington
Parish: Haswell Enum. District: 2
Ecclesiastical District: Holy Trinity City/Municipal Borough:
Address: Dyke Row, Haswell, South Hetton
County: Durham

Name Relation Condition Sex Age Birth
Year Occupation ,
Disability Where Born
HUGHES, William Head Married M 46 1845 Coalminer
North Wales
HUGHES, Margaret Wife Married F 35 1856
North Wales
HUGHES, Sarah Daughter Single F 15 1876 Work Out
North Wales
HUGHES, Mary Daughter F 13 1878
South Hetton
Co Durham
HUGHES, Richard Son M 10 1881 Scholar
South Hetton
Co Durham
HUGHES, John Thos Son M 8 1883 Scholar
South Hetton
Co Durham
HUGHES, Benjamin Son M 5 1886 Scholar
South Hetton
Co Durham
HUGHES, Hugh Son M 3 1888
South Hetton
Co Durham
HUGHES, Robert Son M 0 (6M) 1891
South Hetton
Co Durham

Is this not the marriage

Marriages Sep 1872 (>99%)
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Hughes Margaret Easington 10a 587
Hughes William Easington 10a 587

I do have the cert for that marriage too as I was unsure of which one it might be!
But the ages on this one don't match up with the census' either! It states that there is 3 years between them! So now I have no idea where or when they got married. Only that they were married by the time Richard came along!

Thanks for any help!!! :-S

Wondered about that one but with 1st child born in North Wales i wondered if they got married somewhere there?

1881 census Durham
William Hughes 36
Margaret 26
Eliza 7 Crewe
Sarah in Crewe
Mary. born Easington.

Maryb.

1881 with more info

Reg. District: Easington Sub District: Easington
Parish: Haswell Enum. District:
Ecclesiastical District: City/Municipal Borough:
Address: Dyke Row, Haswell
County: Durham

Name Relation Condition Sex Age Birth
Year Occupation ,
Disability Where Born
HUGHES, William Head Married M 36 1845 Coalminer
Hanasa
Flintshire
Wales
HUGHES, Margaret Wife Married F 26 1855
Denbigh
Denbighshire
Wales
HUGHES, Eliza Daughter Single F 7 1874 Scholar
Crewe
Cheshire
HUGHES, Sarah Daughter Single F 6 1875 Scholar
Crewe
Cheshire
HUGHES, Mary Daughter Single F 3 1878
Easington
Durham

Maybe I will have to order Eliza and Sarah's b certs to see!

1911 info

Reg. District: Easington Sub District: Dawdon
Parish: Haswell Enum. District: 22
Address: 27 Forster Street South Hetton Via Sunderland
County: Durham

Name Relation Condition/
Yrs married Sex Age Birth
Year Occupation Where Born
HUGHES, Richard Head Married M 30 1881 Coal Miner Hewer Co Durham So Hetton
HUGHES, Martha Wife Married F 30 1881 Co Durham Easington Lane
HUGHES, William Son M 10 1901 School Co Durham Easington Lane
HUGHES, Elizabeth Ann Daughter F 8 1903 Co Durham Easington Lane
HUGHES, Margaret Lawson Daughter F 6 1905 Co Durham Easington Lane
HUGHES, Mary Daughter F 4 1907 Co Durham Easington Lane
HUGHES, Robert Son M 1 1910 Co Durham Easington Lane

Who were the parents and witnesses on William and Margarets marriage in Crewe?

Maryb.

John and Elizabeth Williams.

I also states that BOTH William and Margaret's fathers were Hugh Hughes!! William's was a laborer and Margarets a shoe maker.

I have also contacted Crewe registry to check that the ages were copied down correctly and they said yes they were but often the census' were wrong! But I don't see how 3 census'of them could put down the wrong ages!
tracy

1911,26,Forster Street South Hetton.( next door to Richard who is at 27,Forster street.)
Margaret Hughes born 1854 widow
Signed on her behalf by son Benjamin.

William Hughes 1845 maybe died 1910.

I think its just a case of his age has but put down wrong and should read 31 on wedding cert,just like all the mistakes the transcribers do with the census records.


Maryb.

ok thanks everyone!
tracy