Re: Cronshaw/Dean
Bryan, I had delayed applying for Christopher Cronshaw's marriage certificate because on Friday a bombshell dropped from ancestry.co - a Tony Cronshaw replied to my message that had been on the message board of that website say:"from what you have said in your message, I can tell you that we are definitely related albeit distantly. I would need to look up the exact position in my records but from memory I can tell you that the Cronshaws of Plantation Mill had a very interesting line. One was a Canon of St. Paul's Cathedral, London, another a senior officer in the British Army and a third was an Oxford Don". I have to say I thought it was a wind-up and I still think it is a mistake (how could the braincells have been so completely diluted!) and I can't imagine those particular Cronshaws had much chance of a good education or the kind that would have been required to attain these dizzy heights. I sent him the details I had and he came back with the fact that Christopher Cronshaw is the son of John and Ann Cronshaw and the brother of Jonathan Cronshaw. The answer will of course be on the marriage certificate which I will now definitely apply for today. He also said that on the 1851 census Christopher and Jonathan are shown to be children of John and Ann but he has John's dob as 24.2.1798. I don't know where his info is from on that. I am completely bewildered. Sue (I think)
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