Kirsty Posted October 8, 2015 Share Posted October 8, 2015 Hi Halj, Re. Mary TWISS (1822 - 1895) and Henry HARRISON (1812 - 1882). Henry HARRISON is in my tree not only because he married Mary TWISS but because I'm a HARRISON descendant also. Henry's paternal grandparents, Ann HILL (1764 - 1825) and Henry HARRISON (1763 - 1826) are my 5th times great-grandparents. Are you a HARRISON descendant? Kirsty Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Posted October 8, 2015 Share Posted October 8, 2015 I've just subscribed to the topic to see if it's true what people are saying about the notifications. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wrb Posted October 8, 2015 Share Posted October 8, 2015 Hi Kirsty I will pm you with a Twist contact in Australia I had a few years back, she as a John Twist born Ashton in Makerfield 19 November 1749 son of Joseph Twist. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kirsty Posted October 8, 2015 Share Posted October 8, 2015 Thanks wrb - I got your PM - That's really good of you. Kirsty Dave, I haven't received any notifications from this thread (plus all the other problems I mentioned). The only reason I've just read the most recent replies from yourself and wrb is because I happened to be using St. Helens Connect and noticed I was no longer the most recent user to have made a post. Thanks for taking an interest, Kirsty Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Posted October 8, 2015 Share Posted October 8, 2015 Have you checked your spam/junk folder Kirsty - maybe the notifications are being trashed?This one and wrb's previous reply came through on my email notification. see Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kirsty Posted October 8, 2015 Share Posted October 8, 2015 Dave - I have checked my spam folder but unfortunately, there's nothing there. I am getting notifications of PM's from St. Helens Connect and they are going correctly to my in-box? I'm totally puzzled? Kirsty Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Posted October 8, 2015 Share Posted October 8, 2015 Have a look what's ticked in your notification preferences. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kirsty Posted October 8, 2015 Share Posted October 8, 2015 Okay, this might do it (feeling excited - lol). I've up-dated my preferences to indicate immediate and automatic replies to topics (the very top box highlighted in blue). Kirsty Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Posted October 8, 2015 Share Posted October 8, 2015 Let's give it a try then. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kirsty Posted October 8, 2015 Share Posted October 8, 2015 Hallelujah! lol - we have lift off. Kirsty Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Posted October 8, 2015 Share Posted October 8, 2015 Result! Please bear in mind that this board isn't clever enough to deal with any replies made via email to notifications*. In other words, don't reply to notifications because such will be bounced back to the admin address and automatically be deleted. (* I know that Facebook and maybe some other sites let that happen) (unsubbed) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
halj Posted October 8, 2015 Share Posted October 8, 2015 Hi Kirsty, My connection is via Elizabeth Molyneux (1856-1910) who married Henry Harrison (1852-1912), the son of your Henry(1812-1882). Elizebeth's father was Thomas Molyneux and his father was James Molyneux who married Martha Gerrard, my family (complicated ain't it). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kirsty Posted October 8, 2015 Share Posted October 8, 2015 Dave, I forgot to say thank you earlier so I'll say it now; Thank you! I'm chuffed to be getting notifications again. Kirsty Halj, you're right - it is complicated - lol. Kirsty Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Posted October 8, 2015 Share Posted October 8, 2015 Kirsty, that's why we have the Ask Admin and Help & FAQs forums.It was only by chance, a mild curiosity, that I looked in because my g grandfather had a sister Elizabeth Pye who married a Peter Twiss/Twist (son of a Nimrod Ackers Twiss - 1835-1906), else I might never have noticed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lainey1978 Posted October 9, 2015 Author Share Posted October 9, 2015 Sooo..bit of a change of subject. I read somewhere--I think it may have been on this forum somewhere, but I'm not sure--that the term "Dressmaker" was used for prostitutes. Is that true? Because I have a few of those in my tree.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phyll Posted October 10, 2015 Share Posted October 10, 2015 I hope not Lainey, I have a few of those too! Here's a link to interesting reading of how that may have come about through politics and economics, but I prefer to focus on this info. "Millinery and dressmaking constituted the higher end of female employment with the needle; they were "respectable" occupations for young women from middle-class or lower middle-class families." http://www.victorianweb.org/gender/ugoretz1.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FRANK Posted October 13, 2015 Share Posted October 13, 2015 Glushkov, the farmhouse is still there (Pear Tree Farm) but there is no farmland with it. I was born opposite the farm in the middle of the second block. The houses were demolished in the 80's but the ground has never been built on. Stone row was demolished in '63/4 then new council houses built on the ground. We moved into one of the new houses in '64 in Cumberland Cres. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FRANK Posted October 13, 2015 Share Posted October 13, 2015 I didn't take the photo - it was taken in 1911, but I have been upstairs in the Huntsman quite a few times. Went to a few weddings and funerals in the upstairs function room as a lad in the 50's and also did a spell of barmanning there back in 68-71. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lainey1978 Posted October 13, 2015 Author Share Posted October 13, 2015 I hope not Lainey, I have a few of those too! Here's a link to interesting reading of how that may have come about through politics and economics, but I prefer to focus on this info. "Millinery and dressmaking constituted the higher end of female employment with the needle; they were "respectable" occupations for young women from middle-class or lower middle-class families." http://www.victorianweb.org/gender/ugoretz1.html I like this explanation better! I'll take it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phizz Posted October 26, 2015 Share Posted October 26, 2015 Hi Kirsty Sorry I have only just seen your post. Click on Local History which is one of the tabs running along the top of this page and a box will appear with a list on the left.. Items of Interest is in this list. Hope you find it. . Hi Lainey Am still struggling putting Twiss on Ancestry which is why I haven't been on this site for a while,but think I had better start on Sudworth. I have a cert somewhere of John and Ruth Twiss marriage. As regards Birchall - think illegitimate. I'll write Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lainey1978 Posted October 27, 2015 Author Share Posted October 27, 2015 Hey Phizz, I got your email and responded. I think the Crank mystery is solved! At least for one generation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lainey1978 Posted December 16, 2015 Author Share Posted December 16, 2015 Kirsty, that's why we have the Ask Admin and Help & FAQs forums. It was only by chance, a mild curiosity, that I looked in because my g grandfather had a sister Elizabeth Pye who married a Peter Twiss/Twist (son of a Nimrod Ackers Twiss - 1835-1906), else I might never have noticed. I just noticed this--or should I say it just caught my interest after some further research. I have no idea how or if these Twisses are related to my Twisses, but I do know that I've seen the surname Ackers associated with my Twisses, as witnesses at weddings and such. Interesting.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lainey1978 Posted January 13, 2016 Author Share Posted January 13, 2016 Help..I was just trying to figure out why I think my Joseph Twiss came from the union of Thomas Twiss/Twist and Sarah Knowles, and I realized..I don't know. There was another Joseph Twiss/Twist born in May of 1789 to a James and Mary. But then I was like, do I even know he was born in 1789? I do not. All I know is he was an engineer and he married Mary Brown in Nov 1814. On the marriage record he was described as being of Windle. How do I figure this out? Please help!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kirsty Posted January 13, 2016 Share Posted January 13, 2016 Happy New Year Lainey, Just checked my tree for Thomas TWISS / TWIST and Sarah nee KNOWLES and found the following; Marriage - Winwick, St. Oswald - 11/02/1776 Thomas (x) Twiss of this parish and Sarah (x) Knowles of this parish. Married by banns. Witnessed by Robert Cross and Joseph Hawworth. I have 11 children for Thomas and Sarah. Their 7th child is; Baptism - St. Helens Chapel B. 25/10/1789 Bapt. 08/11/1789 Joseph son of Thomas Twist Hope this helps. Kirsty Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lainey1978 Posted January 13, 2016 Author Share Posted January 13, 2016 I know that they had a Joseph, but what I'm really looking for is information tying that particular Joseph Twiss/Twist to MY Joseph Twiss/Twist that married Mary Brown. Does that make sense? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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