Part 162c – Smith Robertson Genealogy – 1752 Baptism – GGGGG-Grandfather Thomas Crossley

Early morning,

And I really was going to go to bed. It is now 1:01 am and I just got back in from walking the dogs and taking some shirts out of the dryer. Man, its bloody cold! And it feels like there could be frost on the ground tomorrow at sunrise.

So I made the mistake and sat down at my PC and I pulled up a folder of Crossley images I had made from FHL [94026], Parish register transcripts, 1666-1812 of the Church of England, Parish Church of Todmorden (Yorkshire). I then opened up my GenoPro Crossley Descendant Chart of my Crossley line. And sure enough I found an image of an Index of Baptisms of 1752 listing an entry for, who I believe is ggggg-grandfather Thomas Crossley. (You can see his representation on the Crossley Descendant Chart in the left-hand green column.)

Transcribing –

Baptisms
[1752 (c)]
1.p.60
Thomas s. of Edmond & Elisebeth Crosley of Walsden 12 November

All-things-being-equal this possible transcribed Index could be referring to my ggggg-grandfather Thomas, son of Edmond (aka Edmund) and Elisebeth (aka Betty Butterworth). And as always, anything could change dependent upon the source and the reliability of the data and information.

Enjoy,

Jim

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Part 132c - Smith Robertson Genealogy - Crossley Descendant Chart

Early Morning,

Couldn’t sleep tonight so I thought I would work on the first draft of the Crossley Descendant Chart. This is one of my ancestral lines in my genealogy that I have been able to uncover a great many generations. My earliest Crossley ancestor is my 8-times great-grandfather Anthony Crossley.

For some of us in our part of the family tree we could be his 10-times great-grandchild. From the records and history that I have been able to gather he was born in around the north-western part of England, in about Lancashire. I’ll provide some more documentation and possible evidence in future posts. He is alleged to have been born around 1655… and that’s about 354 years ago. Wow!

St Chad’s, Rochdale Photograph copyright: Alexander P Capp
Source: Geograph website and reproduced here in accordance with the terms of the site licence which can be viewed at this link.

His wife was 8-times great-grandmother Martha (née Fielding) and they were purported to have been married at St. Chads, the Rochdale Parish Church, in the County of Lancaster about February 1679.

And here is the new Crossley Descendant Chart. This Chart is larger than normal, and may take more than one page to print.

Enjoy,

Jim

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