Author: Shelly

I’ve been researching the family of James Basquil and Mary Holland/Londry. They married in 1838 in Balla, County Mayo. Their first child, Bridget, was born in 1841 in Millerhill, County Mayo. By 1851, James was living in Eccleshall, England, working as an agricultural laborer. I can’t know, of course, but I think it’s a safe assumption that he was among the millions who left Ireland during the famine, to find work elsewhere. Mary and the children joined him by 1861, where I found them in the census, living in Stockport, England. James died in 1879, and Mary died in 1895, both in England.

In 1864 Bridget married a man named John Toole. They had at least three children, that I’ve uncovered. The oldest was Margaret, born in 1867. Findmypast has some Cheshire baptismal, marriage, and burial registers, so I’ve been poking around there, to see what I could find, and this record popped up. Great! I have a burial date. Only no, I don’t.

Folks, don’t rely on the index entry. This one, the top image, purports to be part of a burial collection, but the linked record image is for a baptismal register. Which, I’m not mad about! I have a birth and baptism date for Margaret. But I do not have a burial date. I mean, the burial date may be correct. She could well have been baptized, died, and then buried on the same day. That absolutely happened, at that time. But until they fix the problem (and I did report it, along with a correction to the transcribed mother’s maiden name, which was Baskwell, not Barkwell), I can’t know what’s going on with the burial date.

I’m using that baptismal register image, though! Even though it’s linked wrong.