Yesterday I attended a seminar entitled: Researching British & Irish Roots, presented by Maggie Loughran and Paul Blake. It was given by the Western Pennsylvania Genealogical Society.
There was so much information given as well as a time line of British and Irish History. I had been searching for my husbands great great grandparents Charles Stephens and his wife Hannah, her last name was unknown.
In the 1870 census I find Charles, Hannah, Robert, Charles, James H, Richard and Kate living in Allegheny City, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania. Charles occupation is listed as a gardener in that census.
What I found was a marriage in West Yorkshire, England. In the Civil War Pension for their son Robert he has listed his place of birth as Dorcaster, which is in Yorkshire. The marriage lists a Charles Stephen, full age, bachelor, and his occupation as florist. The wife is Hannah Lonsdale, full age, spinster and no occupation.
The marriage was 27 November 1843 in the Parish of Leeds at St. Peters. Robert was their first child born in 1845 and with the similarity of occupations I feel they are good candidates for the great great grandparents.
They are indeed the great great grandparents, in fact I have since found out that Roberts middle name is Lonsdale. Charles, his father, middle name is Shanahan, I wonder if it is his mothers name.
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