I’ve had a bit of a read through The Gentleman’s Magazine that I found earlier, and it’s interesting stuff.
Take a look at this snippet:
That’s for May/June 1860 in the Districts of London. A huge number of deaths for people under the age of 20.
Love this passage from an obituary for a gentleman named C. Scarisbrick. A bounder and a cad, no doubt.
I’m a huge fan of Google Maps, and for doing stuff like this map of route 66, it’s just fantastic. Love it.
A Mr Andrew Lighten appears to be the Contracts Manager for a mob in England called Acrabuild Limited. Looks like some kind of civil engineering company.
Their website doesn’t help much.
I did some more digging for other appearances of my name on the web. Google books found an interesting entry (albeit spelled slightly differently).
According to the 1860 edition of The Gentleman’s Magazine, a Mr Andrew Lighton, esq. married Eliza Amelia at Brighton.
Earlier than month, Robert Leighton, esq. married Eliza Harriet — she’s the youngest daughter of the late Rev. John Wilkinson, formerly the Vicar of Budwith and of Gate Helmsley in Yorkshire.
Haven’t checked whether either of these esq. appear in the family tree.
Update: There’s actually a few mentions in Google Books.
Update: Checked the family tree details Mum gave me a week or two back. I figure for these guys to get married in the 1860′s they’d have to be born in the 1830-1840 timeframe, and there’s no sign of either a Robert or Andrew back then — certainly not in the details I’ve got.
Who said what?