Well I thought I would just update my blog with what I did on my day off this week. After receiving Annie Gibson's wedding certificate I was surprised that it had said Thomas Allan Gibson, her father, was an Innkeeper. I decided to send off for Thomas Allan's death certificate, as I knew this was a couple of years before Annie had married.
Anyway the certificate arrived and he died on 24 Dec 1909 and it states he was an Innkeeper and Farmer and lived at Cross Keys Inn, Goosnargh. Annie's marriage certificate had said it was in Whitechapel, which is very close to Goosnargh. So I think I can safely say I had found my great, great grandfather's death.
So yesterday we, myself and my uncle Alan, decided to go and look for the Cross Keys Inn. I got out my trusty sat nav, I don't know how I ever got anywhere without it, we set off to Whitechapel and decided while we were there we would look for the local church to see if there were any graves of interest to us.
Above you can see the picture I took of what is left of the Cross Keys Inn, it is not open anymore which is a shame, and there is no farm there now either.
The church turned out to be directly across the road, which was handy. We easily found Thomas Allan's grave and he was buried with his wife Alice and two of their children, who I hadn't been aware of as they had only lived a short while. Both called Amy, one died at 1 year and the other only 7 months, poor little girls.
We also found Annie's grave with her husband William Procter, so that was an added bonus.
So a good afternoon's work all in, more dates and pictures for my family tree and two little girls death certificates to find now.
4 comments:
Sounds like a good day out! It's great when family history works out...
just a note to let you know, my father in law, john holden has bought the cross keys pub. he is doing it up and building some houses on the land surounding it. he is getting it back to a fully running family pub and serving food.
you will have to come and visit it when it is up and running.
my email is
emmaholden5@hotmail.co.uk
let me know if you want any info
emma x
I live near The Cross Keys and would always take people for a drink there as it was a very unique experience, it was affectionately called THE DORCHESTER to people in the surrounding area for ironic reasons. Shame its gone.
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