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Brief details of other researchers who are interested in the Tetlow name and variations thereof.

If you would like me to add you to the following list then please let me know and you can help out by providing some suitable content about yourself!

Steffie Barcomb

 

Stephanie Barcomb 437 Ekonk Hill Road Voluntown                 CT 06384              U.S.A.

Steffie and I are fourth cousins, once removed. Steffie is descended from the marriage of John Tetlow and Alice Knowles. Alice, by now a widow, emigrated to the States with a number of her children on the SS Saxonia from Liverpool, 24 August 1909 arriving in Boston, Massachusetts, 1 September 1909.

Their last permanent residence was Stalybridge and the destination was Westerly, Rhode Island. The name of the nearest relative was Alice's sister, Mrs Waterhouse in Stalybridge. Under the section where it asks if they are joining a friend or relative it says: Son, James Tetlow, 53 Prospect St., Westerly, R.I.

They eventually settled in a small town outside Westerly, called Bradford. In Bradford was the Bradford Dying Association. The BDA is where several Tetlows worked in the textile industry.

Steffie has been a great help with researching my line in the States and much of what I have today is down to her efforts.

Jane Coop

I descend from Mary Ann TETLOW 1845-1923.  She was born Oldham and lived most of her life in the Hollinwood area.  She is buried in Hollinwood cemetery with husband, Charles Robinson.

 

Mary Ann Tetlow (1845-1923) was dau of John Tetlow (1821-1884) and Hannah Holt Hickson

John Tetlow (1821-1884) was son of James Tetlow (1784-1854) and Alice Needham

James Tetlow (1784-1854) was son of Thomas Tetlow (1757-1834) and Ann Hyde

Thomas Tetlow (1757-1834) was son of James Tetlow and Nancy Rowbottom (married 1749 at St. Mary Prestwich)

 

I would be pleased to hear from anyone with links to the above families and interests in the Hollinwood area of Oldham.

Jane Coop (March 2007)

Bill Dowdell

 

William L Dowdell    39 Napier Avenue Blackpool    Lancashire          United Kingdom     FY4 1PA

Bill Dowdell has been researching the Tetlow name for some 15 years and has provided invaluable help to many family history researchers interested in the Tetlow line. Bill collects all references to the Tetlow name irrespective of geography and continues to add to the records which comprise his one-name study. These records were in excess of 16,000 Tetlow references the last time I asked him. As one would expect for such an activity, Bill is interested in all variants of the name.

Bill started his interest in genealogy about 17 years ago. His father got him interested by relating some of the events which he experienced as a young man about his family. Being an Irishman, the truth of the stories might perhaps have been exaggerated to a degree but basically there was some truth in them. Most of them Bill was able to corroborate with existing documents in the National Archives of the U.S.A.

When this was exhausted it eventually led Bill to the Republic of Ireland. After many frustrating trips to Ireland without any success he turned his attention to his wife, Shirley Tetlow’s, line. So, on a trip to London, about 15 years ago, Bill & Shirley decided to spend a day at the Public Register Office to see what they could come up with. With the information that they already had they decided to check the 1881 Census in the Bradford, Yorkshire area for her Tetlow/Nichol/Topham/Atkinson line. As Shirley was more familiar with the Bradford area than Bill was, she concentrated on the Tetlows from the Manningham area of Bradford. Before long she found her great grandfather James Tetlow and his brood. It was his place of birth which surprised Shirley though – he was from ‘Back oth Moss’, Heywood, Lancashire. As Bill could research closer to home in Preston at the Record Office, he began to spend a lot of time at the library. Several certificates later, he was able to establish that they originally came from a farm called Jarrot Hey in Thornham near Middleton.

What started as a simple project of tracing a family evolved into a full ‘one-name-study’ of the Tetlows. What brought this about was the search for Shirley’s great-great-grandfather, Samson Tetlow. His baptism could not be found anywhere so Bill started looking for brothers and sisters of Samson and he collected every reference to Tetlows along the way. Bill did eventually find Samson in an unlikely document. Up until 1815 all the siblings had been baptised at a Church of England church. Samson was found squeezed between two entries in the Union Street, Wesleyan Methodist church of Rochdale. It wasn’t a baptism but an actual birth entry and it’s not on the I.G.I.

Thornham, being a small hamlet at the time, it was a relatively easy task to trace the Tetlow name further back to the early part of the 18th century. Beyond that it became more difficult as records went missing as well as a number of ambiguous entries …..Over the years Bill has helped countless people interested in their Tetlow ancestry. He has recently joined the internet community and is in the process of transferring his extensive records to Family Tree Maker. This will undoubtedly put him in a position where he can help even more people whilst adding to his records. So far Bill and I have been unable to establish any connection between my own line and Shirley’s. We continue to try!

Beth Gaudin

 

Felix & Beth Gaudin 1623 Pine Street     New Orleans            LA 70118              U.S.A.

Beth and I are sixth cousins and is descended from Jubal Tetlow and Margaret France who married on 7 May 1836 at St Michael’s Church, Ashton under Lyne. As far as I can tell Jubal and Margaret emigrated to the States circa 1863 and settled in Ohio.

Beth and her husband, Felix, have been researching their Tetlow line for many years and have visited the U.K. to carry out some of their research. Now that they are retired they are keen to continue their research – focusing on going back earlier than James Tetlow and Martha Horsefield. I wish them luck!

Beth and Felix have recently invested in a computer and are still very much getting to grips with it; their records are therefore primarily manual.

The Gaudins kindly supplied me with some of the historical articles which I have reproduced elsewhere on the web-site.

Sue Highley

I am descended from Thomas Tetlow (b 20/01/1805)/Mary Kay (m. 3/5/1829) - they had a son John Tetlow (b. 4/7/1830) who married Elizabeth Tetlow (b. 15/8/1840) on 26/2/1862. They were second cousins - hence the same surname, and she was the daughter of Moses Tetlow and Eliza Bennett.

Emily Hinton

Emily is also my sixth cousin and is descended from the marriage of Frederick Tetlow and Sarah Tomlinson who were married on 29 September 1861 at St Mary‘s Church, Stockport. They emigrated to the States sometime between 1863 and 1866, settling in Taunton, Bristol County, Massachusetts.

Emily has helped me expand the tree of Frederick and Sarah’s descendants, shared some photographs of her Tetlow line and is busy building a Myfamily.com website about the Hinton name which also includes some references to her Tetlow ancestors.

Harry Murgatroyd

 

Harry Murgatroyd     23 Course View   Holts Village            Oldham                Lancashire           United Kingdom    OL4 5QA

Harry descibes himself as a 66 year old retired layabout (!) and is my fifth cousin, once removed. Harry is descended from  Maud Tetlow and Thomas Murgatroyd. Maud was the last daughter of Jane Tetlow, born 1845, daughter of Joseph Tetlow and Alice Taylor.

Harry is relatively new genealogy and is slowly adding to my knowledge of Maud's descendants.

Graham Taylor

Like one of your correspondents Jane Coop on the researchers page of your website, I too am descended from Mary Ann Tetlow. Her daughter Elizabeth Ann Robinson, was my grandmother.

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