Good news! I did a search on Ancestry.com in the birth, marriage, and death records for Robert Hall, born in 1775, and Elizabeth Miller in Liverpool, Lancashire, England and I was able to find a marriage record that may be theirs. It says they were married on 1 Sept. 1800 in the Trinity Church in Liverpool. [1]
One interesting piece of information this record gives us is that Robert was a cordwainer. They listed the occupation directly after the parish name. At first I thought it said "Cordwainn" and I thought perhaps that it was part of the name of the parish. Then I noticed it said "spinster" for Elizabeth and I realized "Cordwainn" was actually "cordwainer". According to Wikipedia, a cordwainer is a shoemaker.[2] This is a lead that may help me verify Robert's father if he learned the trade from his father. I plan on researching more on the occupation of cordwainers. Perhaps there was a guild in Liverpool to which Robert or Robert's father was a member.
1. Trinity Church. Ancestry.com, Liverpool, England, Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1659-1812, accessed 25 January 2013.
2. Wikipedia.com, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cordwainer, accessed 25 January 2013.
Kimberly,
ReplyDeleteGreat sluthing on the cordwainer!
Do you know about the Lancashire OPC (Online Parish Clerk)? It helped me out so much when researching my family in Lancashire.
ReplyDeleteCordwainer...a shoemaker?! who would have known! very interesting!
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