People   (Re-unions, trace old friends and relatives.)

We've come a long way from the original search!!
I hadn't bothered much about Benjamin, just noticing that he signed his name himself at his marriage. I've now been looking at the censuses and see that he went from being a collier to a master grocer, where he probably had to read labels. There was no schooling at this time and so I find it really remarkable that he achieved this. The date of the bible is 1864 and was started by Benjamin and Elizabeth, you say. I presume it was to record their descendants. Do you know whether Benjamin wrote anything himself about his parents? I noticed in the censuses from the birth places of the children that Benjamin and Elizabeth moved about a bit from Ince to Skemersdale to Yorkshire etc. And what struck me was that their first children had very biblical names and then they swapped to names like Ernest and Minnie. Strange. I wonder whether there was a reason for this.
Can't find out much about brother William. His marriage to Hannah wasn't in a CofE church. I really wanted to know whether he was literate as well, but can't find a scan of the registration of his marriage.
Just browsing around the Ince census for 1861 at the moment to see whether I can find any trace of them.

Linda