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Evening folks,
I've been quiet of late as I've been designing a web site
for a client (English and German) about biotech. He didn't
know what had hit him when I suggested a page for gen stuff
:-)
I've just added pages about how DNA can help in genealogy.
Have a look at www.biotechsworld.com
.. might be just the thing you're looking for to prove a
link !!
Cheers Jane
Admin. COCKSHUTT / HAIGH / LACHS / BEAUMONT
Excuse the cross postings please.
Hello everyone,
I'm new to this list.
My grandmother was Minnie Cockcroft b. 7th June 1883. She had two older sisters, Laura and Annie and a brother Fred. They lived in Sheffield but their father Thomas, came from Oldham, Lancs. according to the 1881 census. He was then 29 years old. This fits with Thomas born 21st October 1852 at Waters Headings, Oldham to James Cockcroft, Machinest and Elizabeth formerly Liddall. It also fits with a birthday postcard in late October from a niece Annie Rose. She later married and became Annie Sharples. This Annie and family emigrated to Canada in 1911.
Laura and Annie never married but Fred had about 6 children.
My Dad always said he thought his Grandad, Thomas was of an Independant persuasion. He may have attended Quaker First Day School in Sheffield although his children attended the Bible Classes at All Saints, Pittsmoor, Sheffield which were the largest in the country with over 3000 men and 2000 women.
Dad also had an idea that his Grandad had once sailed to St Petersburg in one of the old sailing ships.
Interestingly I have a reference in a will to a widow Cockcroft liviing in the Crawshawbooth area of Lancashire around the 1840s I think from memory. She was occupying a property belonging to a brother of an ancestor on my mother's side.
Has anyone any information on Cockcrofts in Oldham around 1850s? People didn't seem to live long there at that time.
Thanks,
J. Margaret Page