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From: GEORGE HIGHTON <>
Subject: Re: [ENG-MERSEYSIDE] William Huyton/ Highton Born Prescot
Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2007 10:52:38 +0000 (GMT)
In-Reply-To: <001601c83327$73035b00$4001a8c0@xxxxxxxx0c0cde>


Hi Gordon
1871 census RG10 /3943 40 page 17
Catherine Dougherty Border un 33 was a card tender in a mill in Greater Bolton
22 Back King or Ring St.
she would have had her son then do you think there might be a Bastardy order over there?
1871 RG10/3860 136 Page 31
30 Poor House ------------(something unreadable)
Prescot
John 60 Alice 58 and son Patrick 26 this is the only census with Longford in it all the rest just Ireland

Regards George

Gordon Evans <> wrote:
Hi George

You wrote :-

>George's Mother was Catherine Doherty /Dougherty.... she married George's
>father John in Prescot Parish Church 5 Feb 1771.

Exactly as I suspected. :-)

Was John HIGHTON a bachelor or widower at the time of this marriage?
If the former, then everything points to William (born some 6 years earlier)
being an illegitimate child of Catherine DOHERTY. In which case his birth
would either
have been registered as William DOHERTY or (as sometimes happened in cases
of illegitimacy) not registered at all.

Free BMD has these entries, which may or may not be of some relevance :-

Birth
SeptemberQ 1864
West Derby 8b/291
William John DOUGHERTY

Death
SeptemberQ 1887
Liverpool 8b/49
William DOUGHERTY, aged 22

This would appear to be the registration of John & Catherine's first child:-

Birth
DecemberQ 1871
Prescot 8b/614
Mary Alice HUYTON

Suggesting that they were still in the Prescot area at the time of the 1871
Census?

Regards
Gordon

From: "GEORGE HIGHTON"
To:
Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2007 11:26 PM
Subject: Re: [ENG-MERSEYSIDE] William Huyton/ Highton Born Prescot

>Hi Gordon Grandfather George's Mother was Catherine Doherty /Dougherty
>actually Born in Longford Ireland C 1838 came over between 1838 and 1842
>When her sister Mary was Born in Prescot she married George's father John
>in Prescot Parish Church 5 Feb 1771
>Cheers George
>
>Gordon Evans wrote:
>Hi George
>
>Do you have a maiden name for your grandfather George's mother, and do you
>have details of the parent's marriage?
>According to the 1881 Census there's a six year gap between the first &
>second children, and it may also be significant that William has the same
>birthplace as his mother Catherine?
>Regards
>Gordon
>
>From: "GEORGE HIGHTON"
>To:
>Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2007 3:01 PM
>Subject: Re: [ENG-MERSEYSIDE] William Huyton/ Highton Born Prescot
>
>Hi Still looking for William Highton/Huyton born in Prescot 1864-6the only
>two I've fount are >WILLIAM HUYTON June Q 1863 and I think died dec.Q
>1863
>William " June. Q 1867 wrong Parents
>anybody see any others Precsot and district
>Regards George



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Cheers George

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