Early Saints Remembered

 The next child of Robert Hindley to be investigated is James. However, there are many men by this name in the greater Manchester area, and it is challenging to determine which is our James.  Lois is also complicated to follow (see notes from the first post about Robert Hindley ... since Lois' mother died when she was a baby, she seems to have been raised by another family as evidenced in the two censuses she is found in). As for William, a nice headstone image on Findagrave identifies him with his parents and wife Mary Emma. William and Mary Emma are identifiable after their 1898 marriage on the 1901 and 1911 censuses in FamilySearch sources.  The 1911 census confirms that William (Jr.) is their ONLY child.  His marriage to Bessie Shaw is documented in the Lancashire Online Parish Clerk Project: Bessie has now been added to FamilySearch's Tree.  No further research has been done to know whether they had posterity. *William & Bessie add 2 more people to Rob...

From the original post about his father Robert, we established that Joseph had been listed on the membership records of the Leigh Branch as a child, but eventually had the words "cut off" written on his line.  He was born in 1841 in Leigh, married Rachael Taylor 5 Jan 1868 in Manchester, and had two known children, Robert (1868) and Sarah Ann (1871).  A search was made in the GRO birth and death indexes, and one additional possible  child (unproven) is Ann, born and died 1st quarter of 1868 in the Manchester district with a mother whose maiden name was Taylor.  FamilySearch has burial records for Failsworth but they are not available online, so they would need to be searched in the library in order to assess whether there is proof of this Ann being Joseph and Rachael's child. Robert FamilySearch Tree included detail about Robert's wife Emma Elizabeth Crossley and their children, Elsie (1895), Robert (1898), Wilfred (1900), and Gladys (1902), all of whom are available...

As I can tell that Robert Hindley probably had a much bigger posterity than I've had the chance to research so far, and because I'm very curious about the potential ordinance quantity for the descendants of this one early saint, I will continue the research!  But it's time for some organization.  Here is a checklist to track my research of his descendants through each of his children.   JOSEPH is up next...

Working on George Rostron & Eunice Hindley's other children (beyond Elizabeth, who was researched in the previous post)... Samuel Their oldest child, Samuel, was born in Manchester about 1863 (according to the 1871 and 1881 censuses where he is listed with his parents).  While no 1901 census is evident for him yet, a solid possibility appears on the 1891 , 1911 , and 1921 censuses for Samuel.  His wife, in this case, was Elizabeth Ann, they were the same age, and she was born in Hollinwood (next-door to Failsworth, where Samuel grew up).  The 1911 census makes it clear that they were married in 1884 and had no children.  A marriage was registered in the correct district in 1884 for a Samuel Rostron to Elizabeth Ann Schofield.  While this couple has not been conclusively proven to match, they represent a highly likely possibility. Eliza Ann The next child proved to be easier to follow.  Eliza Ann was living in the same 1871 and 1881 censuses with her...

There were more Hindleys to research ... On closer investigation of Robert's descendants, many more can be added to the Tree: His daughter Eunice married George Rostron and had six known children.  Researching through these children led to the discovery of Elizabeth 's husband Robert Holt and their five children, Samuel, Alice, Ada, Ernest, and Robert Cyril. Robert Cyril With the youngest of these children having a unique name, it was easy to find him online, and unfortunately, he was killed at war: https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/2494468/robert-cyril-holt/ He left a young widow, Sarah Louise Caine Holt, and daughter, Jean Elizabeth Holt (who eventually married Douglas Cunningham, and from the sound of their obituaries, has many living descendants). Ernest, Ada, Alice & Samuel There are many people by these names in the Manchester area during this time period ... a few too many to pin down where they went (yet).  Ada was still single (age 4...

On April 3, 1857, while visiting in the Leigh Branch of the Manchester Conference, Elder Mark Forscutt recorded in his journal: "visited Bro Hindley & wife with whom I had some conversation and engaged in prayer ..."  I have not uncovered any other reference to the Hindleys from Leigh Branch in missionary journals.  With such limited detail, it is very fortunate that the Leigh Branch membership records survive.  They include only one Hindley family, that of Robert Hindley , which makes the couple in this journal entry identifiable.  He appears in the records multiple times.  His parents are reportedly Joseph Hindley and Catherine Newgent.  According to the records, Robert was born February 7, 1814 in Bedford or Leigh, was baptized in the Leigh Branch by Charles E. Walsh on March 13, 1855, was confirmed by Joseph Moss, held the office of elder, and died on February 12, 1883. Three of his children are noted as members of the Leigh Branch, as well.  ...

Last fall I graduated from the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, Scotland.  Their MSc program in Genealogical Studies permitted me to focus my dissertation research on three of my favorite topics: ENGLAND GENEALOGY, MISSIONARY WORK, and the MORMON MIGRATION.  My paper highlighted the journals/diaries of early Latter-day Saint missionaries as an underutilized resource for genealogists.  It also looked closely at the characteristics of early English converts to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in an attempt to learn more about those who did not  migrate to "Zion." As a result of the research conducted, I found myself uncovering the names of many people who had once been members of the Church, but who did not (for a wide variety of reasons), move with the massive migrations of Saints to the western U.S.  Migrant Saints are often well-studied.  Non-migrant Saints are less-studied, and in many cases, they have been lost to Church History....