MaryLMarlow 2 Posted September 11, 2014 Report Share Posted September 11, 2014 Hi! Brand newbee here , Im not sure of the appropriate forum for my inquiry so feel free to send me on my way but I am looking for a way to trace a name on a head stone in the St Leonards church in Wollaton? Im new to this part of Nottingham and was walking the sights and found a stone with my own name on it from 1755. [Mary Marlow] Ive asked in the church and looked for records online but Im new at this and would really like to find out about her , thanks for any help you can offer , Mary. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Michael Booth 7,364 Posted September 11, 2014 Report Share Posted September 11, 2014 Welcome to Nottstalgia, MaryLMarlow. I look forward to reading your posts and sharing your memories. As for your query, I'm sure that our Members will be able to help you. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
MaryLMarlow 2 Posted September 11, 2014 Author Report Share Posted September 11, 2014 Thankyou Its likely you will find me wandering lost more often than not hehe. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
FLY2 10,108 Posted September 11, 2014 Report Share Posted September 11, 2014 Welcome Mary, what does it feel like to be resurrected ? Very interesting. Hope you have some success in your search. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
MelissaJKelly 2,121 Posted September 11, 2014 Report Share Posted September 11, 2014 Welcome Mary! Hope you're well and good luck with your search, did the stone have a birth/death year? 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Chulla 4,946 Posted September 11, 2014 Report Share Posted September 11, 2014 Mary. It is highly unlikely that you will find out much about your namesake. The parish records for that church - held at the Nottingham Archives on microfilm and the actual registers - should tell you who her parents were, when she was born and when she died. This line of enquiry is OK if she was born with the name Marlow and never married. There will be no death certificate. If she married, the Marriage Register will tell you who to, and the Birth Register will give names and dates of children's births. But that is about it. Of course, Marlow would have been her married name, in which case you start with the Marriage Register. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
carni 10,094 Posted September 11, 2014 Report Share Posted September 11, 2014 Hello and Welcome Mary, I just had a look on Ancestry.com, but I can only go back to 1837 in the Deaths, so I'm afraid I can't help you in your research. But don't despair. Very soon you will have plenty of help from the Knowledgeable Nottstalgians. Good Luck. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mgread1200 141 Posted September 11, 2014 Report Share Posted September 11, 2014 https://familysearch.org/ I did a quick search on the above which is pretty good for the older dates and although there are quite a few entries for May Marlow back then in Nottinghamshire there is nothing for St Leonards, most of the entries come from Cuckney near Bassetlaw plus a few other local entries so it looks like chulla is right and it would mean looking at the church records at the archive. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bubblewrap 3,815 Posted September 11, 2014 Report Share Posted September 11, 2014 Just had a look through my 1844 directory and there is only one Marlow listed. "John Marlow Warehouseman Holland Street.(Freeholder)" Holland Street was off Goose Gate 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Smiffy49 590 Posted September 11, 2014 Report Share Posted September 11, 2014 I have found a later Mary Marlow in an 1888 Wrights Trade Directory. She is listed as Mary Marlowe, curtain dresser, 6 Collin Street. Smiffy 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
DAVIDW 1,683 Posted September 11, 2014 Report Share Posted September 11, 2014 The earliest church records on line for Births , Deaths and Marriages for Wollaton seem to be 1813 , so not much use unfortunately . 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Cliff Ton 10,464 Posted September 12, 2014 Report Share Posted September 12, 2014 Im new to this part of Nottingham and was walking the sights and found a stone with my own name on it from 1755. [Mary Marlow] Ive asked in the church and looked for records online but Im new at this and would really like to find out about her Do you think you have any connection with this person, or is it just a coincidence of names? As others have said, finding anything about a death 250 years ago is going to be very difficult, especially as you have no links or information about those intervening 250 years. You could try contacting the staff at Nottinghamshire Archives http://www.nottinghamshire.gov.uk/learning/history/archives/ If anyone can point you in the right direction, they will. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
MaryLMarlow 2 Posted September 23, 2014 Author Report Share Posted September 23, 2014 Thanks so much to everyone for your welcome and advice Im am only recently a Marlow [one month] and the Mary Marlow on the stone was born in 1705 and died 1755 Her husband died several years later , His name was Thomas Marlow , they had a son also Thomas who died 1797 who married Dorothy , they too had a son also Thomas died 1807. A lot of the information I could have gleaned from the stones is largely illegible but they all strangely passed away in April of their respective years. Perhaps the result of bad winters and hard recovery? The only Marlows I have been able to find in church archives are James and Mary in the 19th century and they were married up Bulwell way ? I was hoping perhaps to trace where they might have lived but Im beginning to think thats unlikely It seems that three generations lived in the vicinity for that 100 years at least? My husband knows very little beyond his own grandparents and doesnt think there are any links to these long aga Marlows , but its nice to think they were kin perhaps distantly hehe Thanks again 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
MelissaJKelly 2,121 Posted September 23, 2014 Report Share Posted September 23, 2014 Glad you found what you were looking for, for the most part Mary 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
annswabey 599 Posted September 23, 2014 Report Share Posted September 23, 2014 This might be the Will for Thomas Marlow senior, at Nottingham Archives, although you haven't said when he died, so can't be sure Level File Repository GB 0157 Nottinghamshire Archives ReferenceNo PR/NW FullCatalogue View collection catalogue AccessionNo 7245 Title Will (05/02/1760), Bond of Thomas MARLOW of Wollaton, Servant to Lord Middleton Date 06/01/1769 Extent 1 bdl ContentDescription In Deanery of Nottingham AccessStatus Open 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
MaryLMarlow 2 Posted September 25, 2014 Author Report Share Posted September 25, 2014 Oh my that's wonderful! Thank you so much! [annswabey] That's more than I had hoped for I'm not familiar with the way the links work, is it possible to actually see the document or a copy of its content? Please excuse my ignorance but I am very excited to have something more to go on Thanks again! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
annswabey 599 Posted September 25, 2014 Report Share Posted September 25, 2014 You could go there and get a copy of it, or I would imagine they'll copy it for you, for a fee. You could email or ring them, to check 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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