Following the resolution of the Sharow Burial Mystery I further researched the children of George Hardy and Jane Pickersgill as follows: Elizabeth Hardy baptised 28 Apr 1828 at St Johns, Sharow. Married Christopher Hammond Q2 1853, Ripon. Died 14 Jan 1898 Stockton on Tees and buried at Oxbridge Lane Cemetery, Stockton.Mary Anne Hardy baptised 21 […]
Burials
The Sharow Burial Mystery
My interest in my family history started when I was about 10 years old when my mother & father took me for a day out to the Ripon area. I was taken aback to see a headstone at St John’s, Sharow with my name on it! My father informed me that it was my great-great […]
So who won the Enos challenge?
Some 10 years or so ago I set a challenge to readers of this site to find the ancestry of Enos Smithson born 1778 in Langthorpe. At the time I’d had a number of discussions with Bill Smithson of Killinghall who had been most helpful with his own research but we couldn’t find where Enos […]
The Enos Challenge
I am aware that a number of people may have drawn a blank in finding the parents of Enos Smithson of Langthorpe (born 1779). So, here’s the challenge – has anyone successfully connected Enos to his parents? Here’s what we know of Enos: Census data shows him to be born about 1779 in Langthorpe. 1841 […]