Something will go here one day soon...Gaiety, merriment and dancing, etc.

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Regular visitors here will have noticed the refurbishment is taking longer than expected.  This is mainly due to me getting very hooked on tracing my family history, which seems to have more skeletons than a medieval plague pit, and as many black sheep as a farm with several black sheep. 

Read about it here.

 

Resources

A page of bookmarks to record Genealogy, Maps and Hartlepool websites I’ve used in my Watson-Loughborough-Mowbray-Bulmer research.  Do contact me if any of these names below mean anything to you.

Genealogy:

FreeBMD - Start here. 

My Family Tree from Chronoplex - My Family Tree is a free genealogy application for Windows®. It has been carefully designed to help you quickly create your family tree using a simple and intuitive interface.

GRAMPS

Mark Twain said something like “When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.”

6 months ago, as a total novice genealogist but with a lifetime in IT tech support behind me, I looked at GRAMPS and thought it looked slick but bewildering. I put it to one side and started using ‘My Family Tree’ by Chronoplex, which was simple, and easy for me to input my limited data, 90+ records. 6 months later I was finding it a bit limited, and wanted greater customisation, and web publishing options. I imported my GEDCOM data into GRAMPS and after just an hour, experimenting with it, and generating reports and HTML pages, populated with my own real data, I am stunned. It will take a long time for me to fully understand and exploit all the functionality, but I am totally converted to GRAMPS. Remember to keep a initial GEDCOM file, so that when you are fully familiar with it, you can start again from the GEDCOM file, after trying lot of experiments. If you’ve tried it before and not liked it, try it with your current GEDCOM data file. I never give 5 stars to any review unless it comes with free beer. 4/5 is as good as I ever give.

Other reviews

Biggest Pro: Free and sophisticated, and well worth persevering with.

Biggest Con: Hard on beginner genealogists and/or those with limited IT knowledge, but one day, you see the light. Wow!

 

Ancestry -

Genes Reunited -

FreeReg - Search Parish Registers

Hartlepool:

Hartlepool History Then & Now - They are building an amazing archive of everyday life in Hartlepool through the photographs and memories of local people. In addition to these very personal photographs, there is also a wide range of images and documents from Hartlepool's Library and Museum Services' collections, creating a valuable social and maritime history resource/archive.

This is Hartlepool - This is Hartlepool! The unique attractions of the stunning multi-million pound Hartlepool Marina complex, an old town steeped in 1,000 years of history and mile after mile of golden sands at Seaton Carew. There's much more to discover and enjoy in Hartlepool. Welcome to the unofficial guide!...

Hartlepool History - STAN LAUNDON - This website contains a personal collection of photographs, and memorabilia, from a local country music radio presenter.  Included on the site there's a healthy selection of photographs, and the history of the  town,  There is also a section dedicated to the bands of Hartlepool and Teesside from the 1960's.

Museum of Hartlepool - A truly amazing photograph collection on Flickr.

Maps:

Google Hartlepool -

Vision of Britain - Topographical, land use and administration maps from the 19th and 20th Centuries.

Old Maps Online - I can’t believe that this is free.

Alan Godfrey Old Ordnance Survey Maps of Hartlepool - Great value reproductions.

Kiss me Kate Loughborough - Unhelpful link. This won’t help at all...  It makes me smile.

Censuses

Censuses

Name

Birth date

Birth place

Death date

Death place

First marriage date

First marriage place

Jane CHAPMAN

1782

Greatham Durham

25/02/1862

Bedford Street

 

 

John Sr MOWBRAY

1786

Wolverston Durham

22/01/1863

Bedford Street

 

 

William Wilkinson LOUGHBOROUGH

09/05/1792

Durham

27/07/1851

26 Walmer Street Marylebone

1820

 

Louisa HUMPHRIES

11/01/1798

London

1858

 

1820

 

Charles GLASSOP

29/06/1802

Shoreditch

 

 

 

 

Catherine SULLIVAN

1803

Mile End

 

 

 

 

Jane GRAY

1815

 

 

 

01/01/1844

 

Mary MOWBRAY

1815

Hartlepool

1887

Hartlepool

13/06/1835

Hartlepool

Robert Smith WATSON

1816

 

02/11/1871

 

01/01/1844

 

John MOWBRAY

1816

 

05/04/1891

 

 

 

Margaret MOWBRAY

1818

Hartlepool

1881

 

Mar 1839

Stockton Durham

Samuel Gilmore FRASER

1820

 

 

 

 

 

Isabella FRAZER

1820

 

 

 

 

 

Jane Louisa LOUGHBOROUGH

21/09/1821

 

 

 

13/03/1842

Paddington

James MOWBRAY

1822

 

27/12/1882

Hartlepool

1845

 

Dorothy HETHERINGTON

1823

 

1884

 

07/06/1846

 

Matthew Thomas LOUGHBOROUGH

17/08/1823

 

06/05/1866

Kensington

 

 

Jane MOWBRAY

1824

Hartlepool

24/07/1909

 

 

 

John Ditchburn FRAZER

01/06/1825

 

1859

 

07/06/1846

 

Elizabeth Augusta LOUGHBOROUGH

13/06/1825

 

 

 

02/08/1851

 

Sarah MOWBRAY

1826

 

21/12/1895

 

 

 

William LOUGHBOROUGH

1828

 

Dec-14

Kensington

Dec 1863

 

Ann MOWBRAY

1828

 

 

 

1848

 

Ellen LOUGHBOROUGH

Jan 1830

 

 

 

02/07/1859

Scots Church Sydney

George Sr LOUGHBOROUGH

10/06/1832

Little Barlow Street

01/05/1900

11 Croft Terrace Hartlepool

08/07/1855

Parish Church Hartlepool

Sarah MACKENZIE

1834

 

 

 

 

 

William Henry Jr BALLARD

1835

Shoreditch

1908

Edmonton

20/11/1860

Spitalfields Christchurch Stepney.

Ann LOUGHBOROUGH

Apr 1835

 

27/03/1836

Kelso Place

 

 

Elizabeth MOWBRAY

1836

 

16/04/1902

11 Croft Terrace Hartlepool DURHAM

08/07/1855

Parish Church Hartlepool

John LOUGHBOROUGH

12/02/1837

 

1841

 

 

 

Richard LOUGHBOROUGH

11/11/1838

 

Mar 1893

London

 

 

Louisa BALLARD

Dec 1838

Chelsea

 

 

 

 

John Colin LOUGHBOROUGH

1841

 

May 1849

Walmer Place Marylebone

 

 

Catharine GLASSOP

16/03/1842

51 Nelson Street Bethnal Green

25/12/1877

2 Tremlow Terrace Hackney

20/11/1860

Spitalfields Christchurch Stepney.

Thomas Christopher WATSON

18/02/1845

 

Abt. 14/10/1889

 

21/01/1866

 

Joseph Henry WATSON

1847

 

1909

 

 

 

Isabella FRAZER

19/05/1847

 

1918

 

21/01/1866

 

Robert S WATSON

1850

 

 

 

 

 

Maria Ditchburn FRAZER

1851

 

1895

 

1876

 

Jane LOUGHBOROUGH

1856

 

 

 

1879

 

John William LOUGHBOROUGH

31/08/1858

Bedford Street Hartlepool

18/03/1911

8 Sandringham Road Hartlepoo

29/01/1882

South Hackney

Louisa LOUGHBOROUGH

Apr 1860

 

 

 

 

 

Annie Maria BALLARD

10/01/1861

8 Goldsmiths Terrace Haggerstone MIDDLESEX

06/12/1883

29 Eden Street Hartlepool

29/01/1882

South Hackney

Elizabeth BBB LOUGHBOROUGH

1862

 

 

 

1897

 

Charles A BALLARD

1863

Shoreditch

 

 

 

 

George Jr LOUGHBOROUGH

1865

 

 

 

 

 

Agnes A BALLARD

1865

Shoreditch

 

 

 

 

William Holmes WATSON

1867

Jarrow

 

 

 

 

Thomas Robinson LOUGHBOROUGH

1868

 

 

 

 

 

Kate E BALLARD

1868

Shoreditch

 

 

 

 

Emily Walker HENDERSON

1869

 

1952

 

11/02/1897

Methodist Chapel Hartlepool

Chapman LOUGHBOROUGH

1869

 

 

 

 

 

Robert H WATSON

1870

Jarrow

 

 

 

 

Mathilda BALLARD

1870

Shoreditch

 

 

 

 

William Henry BALLARD

1871

 

 

 

 

 

Thomas C WATSON

1872

Jarrow

 

 

 

 

Frederick Herbert BALLARD

06/04/1872

 

 

 

 

 

Constance Jane G MACKENZIE

1873

 

 

 

 

 

Margaret LOUGHBOROUGH

1873

 

 

 

 

 

Arthur Douglas BALLARD

07/06/1873

 

 

 

 

 

John F WATSON

1874

Jarrow

 

 

 

 

Walter BALLARD

1875

 

 

 

 

 

Horace Alfred BALLARD

1876

 

 

 

 

 

James Sedcole WATSON

31/10/1876

Jarrow

04/10/1942

West Hartlepool

14/02/1905

Primative Methodist Hartlepool

Ernest P WATSON

1880

Jarrow

 

 

 

 

Kate LOUGHBOROUGH

06/11/1882

Hartlepool

06/01/1967

Hatch End Harrow

14/02/1905

Primative Methodist Hartlepool

John Mowbray LOUGHBOROUGH

06/11/1882

9 Eden Street West Hartlepool

17/12/1882

9 Eden Street West Hartlepool

 

 

George Loughborough BULMER

1883

 

 

 

 

 

Elizabeth Mowbray BULMER

1885

 

 

 

 

 

Hannah Mary WOOD

1886

 

 

 

 

 

Ernest LOUGHBOROUGH

1888

 

 

 

 

 

Ann BULMER

1888

 

 

 

 

 

Elizabeth Jane LOUGHBOROUGH

1889

 

 

 

 

 

Mary Ellen LOUGHBOROUGH

1892

 

 

 

 

 

Chapman Henry Jr LOUGHBOROUGH

1894

 

 

 

 

 

Margaret Mowbray LOUGHBOROUGH

1895

 

 

 

 

 

Louisa LOUGHBOROUGH

1897

 

 

 

 

 

Margaret Louisa LOUGHBOROUGH

1898

West Hartlepool

2003

 

 

 

Edward LOUGHBOROUGH

1898

 

 

 

 

 

Sophia LOUGHBOROUGH

1900

 

 

 

 

 

Alan H WATSON

1901

 

 

 

 

 

Laura LOUGHBOROUGH

1902

 

 

 

 

 

Elizabeth LOUGHBOROUGH

1904

 

 

 

 

 

Norah LOUGHBOROUGH

1906

 

 

 

 

 

Wilfred Peter LAMPARD

01/07/1906

 

Sep-77

Guildford?

 

 

Edmund LOUGHBOROUGH

1907

 

 

 

 

 

May Fraser WATSON

08/04/1907

Hartlepool

13/02/1973

Guildford

13/09/1927

 

Hilda LOUGHBOROUGH

1909

 

 

 

 

 

Constance Anne WATSON

1910

 

 

 

1936

 

George IV LOUGHBOROUGH

1910

 

 

 

 

 

William Robert WATSON

1916

 

13/11/1943

 

 

 

Cecil Milton RHODES

1917

 

 

 

18/04/1940

Lambeth

Harry LEGGETT

23/04/1928

 

 

 

 

 

Jack LOVEKIN

1931

Edmonton

2011

 

 

 

Martin Harry WATSON

26/07/1957

 

 

 

 

 

Victor PALMER

 

 

 

 

1936

 

Derek PALMER

 

 

 

 

 

 

Frank PALMER

 

 

 

 

 

 

Keith PALMER

 

 

 

 

 

 

Patricia GREEN

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ann GREEN

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thomas William LEGGETT

 

 

 

 

13/09/1927

 

Eric LOVEKIN

 

 

1968

 

 

 

Marjory

 

 

 

 

 

 

Matthew BULMER

 

 

 

 

1879

 

James LOUGHBOROUGH

 

 

 

 

 

 

Agnes BURNETT

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sophia Ellen SMITH

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ernest PRENTICE

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sarah Jane LOUGHBOROUGH

 

 

 

 

 

 

William George BEE

 

 

 

 

 

 

John Jr LOUGHBOROUGH

 

 

 

 

 

 

George III LOUGHBOROUGH

 

 

 

 

 

 

Rose Easton BRISCOE

 

 

 

 

 

 

Herbert LOUGHBOROUGH

 

 

 

 

 

 

Jane LOUGHBOROUGH

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thomas LOUGHBOROUGH

 

 

 

 

 

 

David W LOUGHBOROUGH

 

 

 

 

 

 

Robert Burnett LOUGHBOROUGH

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edmund George PRENTICE

 

 

 

 

 

 

Henry LOUGHBOROUGH

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thomas William BARNETT

 

 

 

 

 

 

Daughter LOVEKIN

 

 

 

 

 

 

William Henry Sr BALLARD

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ann

 

 

1852

 

 

 

Matthew LOUFBOROUGH

 

 

 

 

 

 

Elizabeth BYERLEY

 

 

 

 

 

 

John HUMPHRIES

 

 

 

 

 

 

Catherine

 

 

 

 

 

 

Charles BURNE

 

 

 

 

13/03/1842

Paddington

Ada THOMPSON

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thomas DORRELL

 

 

 

 

02/08/1851

 

Anne Stedman

 

 

 

 

Dec 1863

 

Thomas KEEN

 

 

 

 

02/07/1859

Scots Church Sydney

William PERRY

 

 

 

 

13/06/1835

Hartlepool

Thomas ROBINSON

 

 

 

 

Mar 1839

Stockton Durham

Mary BUTCHER

 

 

 

 

1845

 

Thomas Wilson POUNDER

 

 

 

 

1848

 

Isaac FRAZER

 

 

 

 

1816

 

Maria DITCHBURN

 

 

 

 

1816

 

James Sr SEDCOLE

 

 

 

 

1876

 

James Jr SEDCOLE

 

 

 

 

 

 

The following lists how the named person is related to James Sedcole Watson

Name

Birth date

Relationship

to James Sedcole Watson

James Sedcole WATSON

31/10/1876

self

Kate LOUGHBOROUGH

06/11/1882

spouse/partner

Thomas Christopher WATSON

18/02/1845

father

Isabella FRAZER

19/05/1847

mother

John William LOUGHBOROUGH

31/08/1858

father by marriage

Annie Maria BALLARD

10/01/1861

mother by marriage

Emily Walker HENDERSON

1869

step mother by marriage

May Fraser WATSON

08/04/1907

daughter

Constance Anne WATSON

1910

daughter

Victor PALMER

?

son by marriage

Thomas William LEGGETT

?

son by marriage

Eric LOVEKIN

?

son by marriage

Cecil Milton RHODES

1917

son by marriage

Wilfred Peter LAMPARD

01/07/1906

son by marriage

Robert Smith WATSON

1816

grandfather

John Ditchburn FRAZER

01/06/1825

grandfather

Jane GRAY

1815

grandmother

Dorothy HETHERINGTON

1823

grandmother

George Sr LOUGHBOROUGH

10/06/1832

grandfather by marriage

William Henry Jr BALLARD

1835

grandfather by marriage

Elizabeth MOWBRAY

1836

grandmother by marriage

Catharine GLASSOP

16/03/1842

grandmother by marriage

Daughter LOVEKIN

?

granddaughter

Derek PALMER

?

grandson

Frank PALMER

?

grandson

Harry LEGGETT

23/04/1928

grandson

Jack LOVEKIN

1931

grandson

Patricia GREEN

?

granddaughter by marriage

Ann GREEN

?

granddaughter by marriage

Isaac FRAZER

?

great grandfather

Maria DITCHBURN

?

great grandmother

William Wilkinson LOUGHBOROUGH

09/05/1792

great grandfather by marriage

William Henry Sr BALLARD

?

great grandfather by marriage

John Sr MOWBRAY

1786

great grandfather by marriage

Charles GLASSOP

29/06/1802

great grandfather by marriage

Louisa HUMPHRIES

11/01/1798

great grandmother by marriage

Ann

?

great grandmother by marriage

Jane CHAPMAN

1782

great grandmother by marriage

Catherine SULLIVAN

1803

great grandmother by marriage

Keith PALMER

?

great grandson

Matthew LOUFBOROUGH

?

2x great grandfather by marriage

John HUMPHRIES

?

2x great grandfather by marriage

Elizabeth BYERLEY

?

2x great grandmother by marriage

Catherine

?

2x great grandmother by marriage

William Holmes WATSON

1867

brother

Robert H WATSON

1870

brother

John F WATSON

1874

brother

Ernest P WATSON

1880

brother

Thomas C WATSON

1872

brother

John Mowbray LOUGHBOROUGH

06/11/1882

brother by marriage

William George BEE

?

brother by marriage

Margaret Louisa LOUGHBOROUGH

1898

sister by marriage

Constance Jane G MACKENZIE

1873

sister by marriage

Maria Ditchburn FRAZER

1851

aunt

Joseph Henry WATSON

1847

uncle

Robert S WATSON

1850

uncle

Jane LOUGHBOROUGH

1856

step aunt by marriage

Elizabeth LOUGHBOROUGH

1862

step aunt by marriage

Hannah Mary WOOD

1886

step aunt by marriage

Louisa LOUGHBOROUGH

01/04/1860

step aunt by marriage

Margaret LOUGHBOROUGH

1873

step aunt by marriage

Agnes BURNETT

?

step aunt by marriage

Sophia Ellen SMITH

?

step aunt by marriage

Agnes A BALLARD

1865

step aunt by marriage

Kate E BALLARD

1868

step aunt by marriage

Mathilda BALLARD

1870

step aunt by marriage

George Jr LOUGHBOROUGH

1865

step uncle by marriage

Matthew BULMER

?

step uncle by marriage

Thomas Robinson LOUGHBOROUGH

1868

step uncle by marriage

Chapman LOUGHBOROUGH

1869

step uncle by marriage

James LOUGHBOROUGH

?

step uncle by marriage

Ernest PRENTICE

?

step uncle by marriage

Charles A BALLARD

1863

step uncle by marriage

William Henry BALLARD

1871

step uncle by marriage

Arthur Douglas BALLARD

07/06/1873

step uncle by marriage

Frederick Herbert BALLARD

06/04/1872

step uncle by marriage

Walter BALLARD

1875

step uncle by marriage

Horace Alfred BALLARD

1876

step uncle by marriage

James Sr SEDCOLE

?

step uncle by marriage

Alan H WATSON

1901

nephew

William Robert WATSON

1916

nephew

Marjory

?

step niece by marriage

Isabella FRAZER

1820

great aunt

Jane Louisa LOUGHBOROUGH

21/09/1821

step great aunt by marriage

Ada THOMPSON

?

step great aunt by marriage

Elizabeth Augusta LOUGHBOROUGH

13/06/1825

step great aunt by marriage

Anne Stedman

?

step great aunt by marriage

Ellen LOUGHBOROUGH

01/01/1830

step great aunt by marriage

Ann LOUGHBOROUGH

01/04/1835

step great aunt by marriage

Mary MOWBRAY

1815

step great aunt by marriage

Margaret MOWBRAY

1818

step great aunt by marriage

Mary BUTCHER

?

step great aunt by marriage

Sarah MOWBRAY

1826

step great aunt by marriage

Ann MOWBRAY

1828

step great aunt by marriage

Jane MOWBRAY

1824

step great aunt by marriage

Louisa BALLARD

01/12/1838

step great aunt by marriage

Charles BURNE

?

step great uncle by marriage

Matthew Thomas LOUGHBOROUGH

17/08/1823

step great uncle by marriage

Thomas DORRELL

?

step great uncle by marriage

William LOUGHBOROUGH

1828

step great uncle by marriage

Thomas KEEN

?

step great uncle by marriage

John LOUGHBOROUGH

12/02/1837

step great uncle by marriage

Richard LOUGHBOROUGH

11/11/1838

step great uncle by marriage

John Colin LOUGHBOROUGH

1841

step great uncle by marriage

William PERRY

?

step great uncle by marriage

John MOWBRAY

1816

step great uncle by marriage

Thomas ROBINSON

?

step great uncle by marriage

James MOWBRAY

1822

step great uncle by marriage

Thomas Wilson POUNDER

?

step great uncle by marriage

Samuel Gilmore FRASER

1820

step great uncle by marriage

James Jr SEDCOLE

?

cousin

Sarah Jane LOUGHBOROUGH

?

cousin by marriage

Ernest LOUGHBOROUGH

1888

cousin by marriage

Elizabeth Jane LOUGHBOROUGH

1889

cousin by marriage

Margaret Mowbray LOUGHBOROUGH

1895

cousin by marriage

John Jr LOUGHBOROUGH

?

cousin by marriage

George III LOUGHBOROUGH

?

cousin by marriage

Rose Easton BRISCOE

?

cousin by marriage

Herbert LOUGHBOROUGH

?

cousin by marriage

Jane LOUGHBOROUGH

?

cousin by marriage

Thomas LOUGHBOROUGH

?

cousin by marriage

David W LOUGHBOROUGH

?

cousin by marriage

Robert Burnett LOUGHBOROUGH

?

cousin by marriage

Mary Ellen LOUGHBOROUGH

1892

cousin by marriage

Chapman Henry Jr LOUGHBOROUGH

1894

cousin by marriage

Sophia LOUGHBOROUGH

1900

cousin by marriage

Elizabeth LOUGHBOROUGH

1904

cousin by marriage

Norah LOUGHBOROUGH

1906

cousin by marriage

George IV LOUGHBOROUGH

1910

cousin by marriage

Edmund George PRENTICE

?

cousin by marriage

Thomas William BARNETT

?

cousin by marriage

Laura LOUGHBOROUGH

1902

cousin by marriage

Edmund LOUGHBOROUGH

1907

cousin by marriage

Hilda LOUGHBOROUGH

1909

cousin by marriage

Louisa LOUGHBOROUGH

1897

cousin by marriage

Ann BULMER

1888

cousin by marriage

George Loughborough BULMER

1883

cousin by marriage

Elizabeth Mowbray BULMER

1885

cousin by marriage

Edward LOUGHBOROUGH

1898

cousin by marriage

Henry LOUGHBOROUGH

?

step 1x cousin 1x removed by marriage.

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