Another Blinston
 

Richard Copas Blinston born 1876 Manchester married Harriett Rowlinson Hill at St Mark's Gorton Manchester in 1897, I don't know Harriett's DOB. I can't find them in 1901. Can anyone else please?

Dont have the cert to tell you how old she was I guess?

Harriet's birth was registered Apr-Jun 1879 Salford registration district.

I'm not having much luck with this at the moment!

I think this is their daughter:

Births Sep 1900
Blinston Frances Threlfall Salford 8d 155

In 1911 the above child and Harriet Blinston aged 32 b Salford are boarding with James Threlfall (head) aged 39. I've not worked out if there's anyone else in the house, but I don't think Richard is there. I'm thinking James is a relative, or maybe even....... James is the father of the child and Richard vanished not long after the wedding :eek:

Or this is completely the wrong family! lol

Oooh-err!

Marriages Dec 1917
Blinston Harriet Threlfall Chorlton 8c 1308

and there's is an untranscribed (ie not on FreeBMD) record for James Thelfall, same page and volume numbers.

It's possible Richard had died in WW1, as there is this record on the CWGC site

Name: BLINSTON, RICHARD
Initials: R
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Private
Regiment/Service: King's Own (Royal Lancaster Regiment)
Unit Text: 1st Bn.
Date of Death: 01/07/1916
Service No: 3033
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: Pier and Face 5 D and 12 B.
Memorial: THIEPVAL MEMORIAL

No middle name though so it might not be the right Richard.

I think that death could be the right one as your Richard was b in Openshaw and would have been about 38 in 1915 (army join-up date) which matches with the army record for the man who died 1st July 1916. (that's the first day of the Battle of the Somme)

I can't find Frances in 1901 (or either of her parents)

Oh, that's funny - I spotted some army records on ancestry for Richard born Openshaw but I discounted them as soon as I looked at the first page because he said he wasn't married! Maybe it was him after all! I don't think I can get onto ancestry at the moment to look at them, though.

Does that mean you know who her father was, lol?!

Erm......No. lol!!

Maybe I should have said "or any of her parents"