Sarah Pickance & Samuel Soorn

[Phoenix]

I have found this in the National Archives:


"Reference:
C 14/1272/P48
Description:

Cause number: 1851 P48.

Short title: Pickance v Soorn.

Documents: Bill, certificate, two answers, replication.

Plaintiffs: Sarah Pickance spinster.

Defendants: Samuel Soorn, Mary Lowe, Edward Pickance, Bernard Pickance, Richard Lock Pickance, Ralph Pickance and William Pickance.

Amended by order 1855. Plaintiff: Sarah Pickance. Defendants: William Hodgkinson and Mary Hodgkinson his wife, David Evans and Ann Evans his wife and William Allen.

Provincial solicitor employed in Lancashire, Durham"

The amending order seems to reduce the defendants from Sarah's siblings (possibly including Mary Lowe?) and Samuel Soorn to Samuel's descendants (not sure where William Allen fits in)

Samuel Soorn married Elzabeth Hardley in 1810. He was a draper and apparently a pillar of society in Chester. He died at the end of 1854, hence presumably the reason to chase his children.

The Chancery case dredged up Mary Walley, widow, who died in Chester in June 1817. FMP shows that the executor of her will was Edward Powell.

Walley, Pickance, Soorn - can anyone see any connection between these families?

[kiterunner]

Sarah Pickance's parents were Daniel and Elizabeth. She was baptised 24 Jun 1796 at Manchester Cathedral. Just to give us somewhere to start from.

[kiterunner]

Daniel Pickance married Elizabeth Brown 15 Jul 1790 at Warrington, Lancashire (FamilySearch). Bother, I thought Elizabeth's surname might be Soorn! There is a Cheshire marriage bond / allegation for them - I will have a look at it later after making the tea, if nobody has looked it up by then.

[kiterunner]

On the marriage bond / allegation Daniel is 33, bachelor, gentleman, of Manchester, and Elizabeth is 22, spinster, of Warrington.

[kiterunner]

Daniel's baptism is on FamilySearch - 13 Dec 1756, St John the Baptist, Chester, parents Daniel and Alice. Good, a Chester connection with the Pickance family; I was worried it would be in Elizabeth Brown's line and that could be very difficult to trace!

Daniel's burial 16 May 1840 Liverpool, date of death 13 May 1840.

[kiterunner]

There is a marriage on FamilySearch 29 May 1751 Daniel Pickance and Alice Nowell, but it is St Benet Pauls Wharf, London. Looking at the image on ancestry, he is of the parish of St Martin in the Fields Middx and she is of the same parish, both widowed.

And it looks as though Daniel sr (Alice's husband) was buried in Chester as there is a burial 7 Dec 1794 at St John the Baptist, Chester. FamilySearch also shows a probate record for Daniel Pickance 1795, Diocese of Cheshire.

[kiterunner]

Oh, there are lots of matches for Pickance on the Lancashire Will Search:

Type

Surname

First

Details

Supra Pickance Daniel of Chester, innholder Admon 1736
Supra Pickance Daniel of the City of Chester, wine merchant 1795
Supra Pickance Hannah of Puddington Nunc Will 1684
Supra Pickance Jane and Elizabeth, minors Tuition 1777
Supra Pickance Jane of Liverpool, a minor Tuition 1778
Supra Pickance Jane of Liverpool, widow Admon. 1777
Supra Pickance Jane of Liverpool, widow Admon. 1778
Supra Pickance John of Burton 1702
Supra Pickance John of Burton, gentleman Admon. 1778
Supra Pickance John of Ness 1687
Supra Pickance Samuel of Pottington 1681
Supra Pickance William of Burton Nunc Wiil 1673
Supra Pickance William of Liverpool, attorney Admon. 1777
Supra Pickance William of Liverpool, gentleman Admon. 1771
Supra Pickance William of Liverpool, gentleman Admon. 1778
Supra Pickance William of Liverpool, gentleman. L.A. 16 Apr 1814
Supra Pickance William of Ness Admon with Inv 1731

[kiterunner]

But you would think if this case was to do with a Pickance will, it would be of Daniel Pickance who died in 1840 and I can't find him on the Lancashire will search or the Cheshire one.

[kiterunner]

Ah, more National Archives catalogue (A2A) stuff:
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/a2a/records.aspx?cat=017-sl300&cid=-1#-1

There is mention of "Daniel Pickance, late of Chester, now of London, wine cooper." in 1754, and "Mary Walley of chester, widow, and Thomas Barnes of Chester, plumber, exor. of Daniel Pickance." in 1796.

[kiterunner]

And another A2A entry mentions
Petition from Mary Walley, widow, for a lease of premises in Northgate Street, formerly leased to her father, Daniel Pickance, dec., rejected.

[Phoenix]

Ooh, aren't you clever, Kite!

Samuel Soorn was living in Northgate Street, so perhaps it was to do with the property he lived in?