Cleggs- Accrington-Help?
 

Hi, I posted a help message earlier but I have more info now, so I'm hoping someone may be able to help!
My uncles 70th Birthday is this month & I have been trying to find a living family member on his fathers side- his father died before he was born & he knows nothing about him.
So I have his fathers name- William Ernest Clegg .died 1933.
William had a brother: Charles Alfred Clegg .born 1897
and a sister: Sarah Florence Clegg. born 1895 ( but seems to have gone by Florence)
They lived at 22 oswald St Accrington in the early 1900's
Then I have 19 West Crescent Accrington in the 1930's for William.
I don't know where to go from here- there are no marriage records online for Accrington, so I can't find if charles or Florence married &/or had children that I might trace.
Does anyone have any suggestions?
My uncle is also called William Ernest ( but goes by Bill ) born 1934.
His mother (my nan) was Dorothy Marsden (then married Bill Pearson).
Thanks for taking the time to read this,
Janine.

Does your uncle live on milnshaw lane?

No, he lives in Australia. Which is why it's so awkward to get any further with this.

Not the same bill clegg then, sorry.

Hi Janet Do you have a Martha Marsden or James Heaton or a Mary Jane Livesey in your family ??? Avenue Parade area or Clayton

I haven't researched the Marsden side yet, so I'm not sure. Janine.

Janine sorry I got it wrong and called you Janet, if you find a connection when you get round to your Marsdens you know where I am
Siddie

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Hi,
My grandma was called Dora Clegg and had a brother called Harry Clegg,they used to live in West End,she was akeen tennis player and sang in societies,he had afancy goods shop on Blackburn Road;is any of this any use to you? :confused:

Re: Cleggs- Accrington-Help?
 

Hi Lindsay
Did any of your Ormerod family own a small wooden house in the Pendleton area, where they used to visit in the summer ???? if so my aunt and uncle used to go with them, and I have a picture somewhere.
Also my dad of 80yrs + remembers an Omerod on the market who were butchers.
Ex Accylass
Sheila

Re: Cleggs- Accrington-Help?
 

Don't recall any wooden houses,but my gran always had a chalet at Fleetwood when she went there on family hols...I will make enquiries of the older members of the family... :rolleyes:

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Apparently my great grandfather was called James Clegg,he was a supervisor at one of the big ring spinning mills,poss Stanhill,and went to Moscow to set uo the looms there when the company expanded.My mother has a clock that he was given in recognition of this,with an engraved plate on it. :)

Re: Cleggs- Accrington-Help?
 

Hi Lindsay,
Thanks for following that up. If I find a connection I will let you know.
Janine.

Re: Cleggs- Accrington-Help?
 

On-line genealogy links
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1901 Census is on-line here
http://www.census.pro.gov.uk/
(£5 minimum session cost)

1881 Census is at Latter Day Saints website
http://www.familysearch.org/
Check out search tab, then census, then select British Census
(Free search and results)

Free Birth Marriage and Death is here
http://freebmd.rootsweb.com/
(Free but partial index)

Official on-line Birth Deaths and Marriage index is here
http://www.1837online.com/Trace2web/
(Some costs but this covers civil registration from 1837)

Family Records Centre
http://www.familyrecords.gov.uk/
(See website for further Information)

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