Monday, May 25, 2015

Jane and Rachel Morley in the Lancashire Quarterly Sessions Reports on Ancestry.com

Ancestry.com added the Lancashire Quarterly Session Records and Petitions, 1648-1908 to their searchable website last week.  However, I don't have an Ancestry.com World subscription, so I cannot access these records from home.

This database piqued my interest, because I found an index record several years ago stating that my wife's third great-grandmother, Jane (Haslam) Morley (1780-1834), and her illegitimate daughters, Rachel and Leah, had been removed to Blackburn from Little Bolton in Lancashire in the 1830 time period.

I went to the San Diego FamilySearch Library on Saturday for the SDGS RootsMagic user group, but I had the presence of mind to go early and take my flash drive in case I found something like the Lancashire records on Ancestry.com.

I entered Jane Morley's name, and then Rachel Morley's name, and found three records in the right place and time frame.  Ancestry.com allowed me to Save this record to my Email, so I did so with all three records, and also the record summaries.  I put in my email address, clicked on Save, and waited.  And waited.  I checked my Gmail several times during the RootsMagic class, and they weren't there.  Drat.  Why?  So after the RootsMagic class, I went back to the computer, found the records, and saved them to my flash drive.  That worked well.

This morning, I was checking my Spam email folder, and there the notice from Ancestry.com was, dated 23 May!  Here is the email:


I clicked on the link to "View your discoveries" and saw the list of three items:


I can Download each of these by clicking on the orange "Download image" button.

Here is the first record on the list, downloaded and saved and snipped:


The Record Summary can be seen with the "Printer friendly" link:


The above record summary provides me with the source citation information that I need for this record.

All in all, this was a productive visit considering it took about 10 minutes to find and email these records that I've waited five years to obtain.

I still need more records for these persons - there may be poorhouse or workhouse records, bastardy records, and perhaps more in the Bolton-le-Moor church records or civil records.  A visit to Bolton and the Lancashire record offices are on my to-do list and has been for several years.

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