Lancashire Electoral Rolls/Australian immigration

**Bazza** · 24-01-2012 12:23 AM

Hi all,

I'm trying to track down one Greenwood Huddleston(e). I have his marriage certificate from 4 Sep 1881 at St. Philip's in Manchester (Salford) and the birth certificate for his first child on 3 Mar 1887 in Brunswick, Victoria, Australia. His death certificate implies that he arrived in Oz around the time of his daughter's birth, i.e. 1887, though I cannot find him or his wife, Hannah, arriving in any port.

I am hoping someone has access to electoral rolls or directories for Manchester or Lancashire in the 1880s, to try and pinpoint when he headed Down Under. His occupation was carter.

Also, if anybody can track their immigration down, I would be eternally grateful!

Cheers,

Bazza

**The Lady Marion** · 24-01-2012 02:23 AM

Hi Bazza, In trying to help you with your search I found a death recorded in Victoria for Jno (John) Greenwood Huddleson..Perhaps this could be a connection?

Jno Greenwood Huddleson

Rutherglen, Victoria

74

Joseph Huddleson

Suzannah Greenwood

1938

Victoria

13152

abt 1864

**The Lady Marion** · 24-01-2012 02:32 AM

I have him in the Sands Directory and his occ as you stated was Carter..Address Cooks River rd St Peters..Year 1886
page number 580...

**Bazza** · 24-01-2012 02:58 AM

That death is the man himself! For some reason he took the first name John in the late 1880s - try and blend into the crowd more easily perhaps....

So he's in Oz by '86..... As St. Peters is in Sydney (Cooks River Ave is the one that leads to the International Airport), maybe he went there first.....

More clues!

Thanks again

Baz

**The Lady Marion** · 24-01-2012 04:21 AM

Just to clear things up Baz the Sands Directory has the address as Cooks River Rd..I did find a few later arrivals for Greenwood to Australia but not in the time frame you are searching for under those names. Another thought is that he came to Australia perhaps under the name of John? What other steps have you taken in order to find his arrival date and that of his wife?

**Bazza** · 24-01-2012 06:10 AM

Thanks. I've checked the Victorian immigration records at the PROV site, but I am now thinking that he may have sailed into Sydney. NSW only have good records for their assisted immigrants, so if he paid his own way, then I might have to trawl through some fiche to find him....
Have been looking under both John & Greenwood, and checking alternate Huddleston spellings and also Swinnerton, his wife's maiden name that he later adopted.

**The Lady Marion** · 24-01-2012 07:56 AM

Yes I think you might need to trawl through the fiche in order to find your man..I am also of the opinion that he sailed into Sydney first and lived there for a short time before making the move to Victoria.

**noggin28** · 24-01-2012 10:28 AM

In 1871 Greenwood HUDDLESTONE was living in Chappell Street, Droylsden
Reg. District: Ashton Under Lyne Sub District: Audenshaw County: Lancashire
Joseph 1824 Lancashire
Susannah 1819 Lancashire
George 1847 Lancashire
Thomas 1854 Lancashire
William 1857 Lancashire
Greenwood 1864 Lancashire

On the 1861census there was also these children:
George Huddlestone 13
Martha Ann Huddlestone 11
Thomas Huddlestone 7
William Heny Huddlestone 4
Joseph Huddlestone 7 MO

On the 1851 census there was also these children:
Mary Elen Huddlestone 7
George Huddlestone 4
Molly Huddlestone 1

Census 1881
William H. Hiddlestone 24
Greenwood Hiddlestone 18
Street Address: 2 Edwards Buildings (Ashton New Road)
Civil parish: Droylsden County/Island: Lancashire

1891 census Civil parish: Droylsden
Ecclesiastical parish: Clayton St Cross
Susannah Huddleston 75
Thomas Huddleston 38 son/widower
Mary E Huddleston 12 g/dauhter

England, Lancashire, Cheshire, Yorkshire, Parish Registers, 1603-1910 for Greenwood Huddleston
Name: Greenwood Huddleston
Event: Marriage
Event Date: 04 Sep 1881
Event Place: Manchester (St Philip), Lancashire, England
Gender: Male
Father: Jos Huddleston

I have looked on all the passenger ships I can find going to NSW, Victoria snd Tasmania with no luck.
have you tried other variations on the surname? 1881 Greenwood Hiddlestone

**The Lady Marion** · 24-01-2012 07:46 PM

Hi Baz, I would also be searching for other variations of Hannah..My Great Grandmother was named Hannah but went by the name of Anna or Annie..Only official documents such as bdm certs and her Baptism record her under the name of Hannah..

**Bazza** · 25-01-2012 07:27 AM

Thanks to both of you. Noggin, I did have those census records already, but I appreciate it nonetheless.
Lady Marion, I found him in the Sand's for 1885 as well, though he's not there in '84....
Narrowing it down further.
Baz

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