From: chris@dickinson.uk.net   
      
   On Sunday, 5 August 2018 17:15:47 UTC+1, Chris Dickinson  wrote:   
   > On Sunday, 5 August 2018 15:10:28 UTC+1, Chris Dickinson  wrote:   
   > > On Sunday, 24 March 2002 04:22:58 UTC, AlexMnsy  wrote:   
   > > > Trying to find parents off Fletcher Mounsey b: 1838 England arrived   
   inAust on   
   > > > the vessel SS Great Britian in 1965 and what part of England they came   
   from   
   > > > regards  Alex   
   > >    
   > >    
   > > Fletcher Mounsey was baptised 11-02[February]-1838, son of John & Sarah.   
   Residence at Fellside in Mosser in Cumberland.   
   > >    
   > > John and Sarah had at least 10 children between 1818 and 1838, though the   
   residence for the first two (John & Isaac) is given as High Mosser in Mosser.   
   I don't know whether Fellside is in High Mosser.   
   > >    
   > > Their son, Lancelot, was baptised 05-12-1830.   
   > >    
   > > All information from Nev. Ramsden's 'BMD Index'. He always suggest that   
   you check his data against the actual registers.   
   >    
   > Info below just from Family Search   
   >    
   > It would seem likely that Sarah was Sarah Hodgson. Sarah is aged 66 in the   
   1861 Census, with her birthplace given as Ennerdale. John Mounsey married a   
   Sarah Hodgson in Ennerdale 02-02-1818 with the first child baptised   
   10-10-1818. A Sarah Hodgson was    
   baptised 14-08-1795 in Ennerdale - parents Isaac   
   >    
   > Sarah's parents are named as Isaac & Mary Hodgson. There was a marriage in   
   Ennerdale 10-06-1775 between Isaac Hodgson and Mary Wilson.   
   >    
   > John Mounsey was described as born in Distington in the 1851 Census, and   
   Gilgarran in the 1861. That's not a problem. However, no baptism that I can   
   see there. But there is a John Mounset baptised in the nearest port,   
   Whitehaven, with only a mother    
   Mary named 13-07-1794. This is perfectly consistent with, for instance, an   
   illegitimate birth.   
   >    
   > Chris   
      
   Excuse me. I see that the FamilySearch extract gives the mother as Mary   
   Mounsey - a husband recently bereaved at sea perhaps, and she went to live at   
   Distington?   
      
   Chris   
      
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