The Bridge to ALDRIDGE

A brief history of my ALDRIDGE ancestry.

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Location: Newton Le Willows, Lancashire, United Kingdom

An only child born on a sunny Saturday afternoon at 2:30pm (is that why I'm so lazy LOL!) at the new Whiston Hospital Maternity Wing (there's press cuttings to prove it). It was the year of the Ox and it was on the cusp of Virgo and Libra (so that's why I can't make up my mind LOL!) Spent the first four years of my life moving around the St Helens area with my parents, finally settling in Newton-Le-Willows and remained there until I was 22, when I decided to try and find my fame and fortune in Manchester. Sadly I wasn't destined to find it there but I had some really great times. Ill health seems to have been the factor which slowed me down after this. I left the bright lights of the city and had a brief spell at my friend Michael's home on the outskirts of Leigh, before moving to Warrington at the end of 2004. I then returned to my "home" town of Newton Le Willows in April 2007 but still spent a fair amount of time in Leigh. I think it has something to do with the "ancestral seat" of Bonny Well, Pennington, Leigh! lol ;-)

Tuesday, June 29, 2010

The LEAY / HOWARD / BURNETT / WILSON connection

The HOWARD branch is linked to my ALDRIDGE clan via Mary HOWARD, born in 1841, who became Mrs BURNETT, then Mrs WILSON after the death of her first husband James BURNETT.

She was the mother of Elizabeth BURNETT (who became Mrs ALDRIDGE) and is therefore the grandmother of my grandmother, Annie Leay PLIMMER (previously NUGENT, nee ALDRIDGE).

Mary's father was John Davies HOWARD and her mother was Johanna HOWARD (nee STANTON) who was born in France, a British Subject (as per 1851 census).

I do not know how to trace the birth of her mother, Johanna, so any advice most welcome.

HOWARD certificates I have so far include:






 







It is here we find the first reference to the LEAY name (not Leah) as in the middle name of my grandmother Annie Leay PLIMMER.

2 Comments:

Blogger fbd467h said...

IS VERY GOOD..............................

5:28 AM  
Blogger A Merlin Imp said...

thank you

;-)

10:16 PM  

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