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Family: Fish/Shorrock (F293)
m. 15 Feb 1836

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  • Parents

    Father | Male
    Michael Fish
     Birth  Abt 1818  Over Darwen, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom Find all individuals with events at this location
     Died  20 Sep 1886  Over Darwen, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom Find all individuals with events at this location
     Buried  23 Sep 1886  Darwen, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom Find all individuals with events at this location
     Married  15 Feb 1836[1, 2, 3, 4, 5]  Blackburn, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom[1, 2, 3, 4, 5] Find all individuals with events at this location
     Father  Richard Fish | F339 Group Sheet 
     Mother  Mary Waddicor | F339 Group Sheet 

    Mother | Female
    Hannah Shorrock
     Birth  Abt 1815  Over Darwen, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom Find all individuals with events at this location
     Died  27 Apr 1877  Darwen, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom Find all individuals with events at this location
     Buried     
     Father  John Shorrock | F1351 Group Sheet 
     Mother  Mary Kay | F1351 Group Sheet 
     
    Children

    Child 1 | Male
    William Fish
     Birth  22 Jun 1836  Darwen, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom Find all individuals with events at this location
     Christened  31 Jul 1836  Blackburn-Over-Darwen, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom Find all individuals with events at this location
     Died  Yes, date unknown   
     Buried     

    Child 2 | Male
    John Fish
     Birth  29 Dec 1838  Darwen, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom Find all individuals with events at this location
     Died  9 Jun 1910  Darwen, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom Find all individuals with events at this location
     Buried  14 Jun 1910  Darwen, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom Find all individuals with events at this location
     Spouse  Jane Wilkinson | F1352 
     Married  25 Apr 1861   

    Child 3 | Male
    James Fish
     Birth  Apr 1841  Darwen, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom Find all individuals with events at this location
     Died     
     Buried     

    Child 4 | Male
    Thomas Fish
     Birth  Abt 1844  Darwen, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom Find all individuals with events at this location
     Died  Yes, date unknown   
     Buried     

    Child 5 | Male
    Richard Fish
     Birth  1848  Darwen, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom Find all individuals with events at this location
     Died  6 Mar 1922  Darwen, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom Find all individuals with events at this location
     Buried     

    Child 6 | Female
    Jane Fish
     Birth  1851  Over Darwen, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom Find all individuals with events at this location
     Died  Yes, date unknown   
     Buried     

    Child 7 | Male
    Michael Fish
     Birth  Abt 1855  Over Darwen, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom Find all individuals with events at this location
     Died  Yes, date unknown   
     Buried     
     
  • Notes 

    • The following is noted in correspondence written to Jay Strong from John Marsden in England on 17 August 1997:

      "The Lower Chapel register shows the birth of their (Michael and Hannah's) first child, William, later that year (they were married on 15 Feb 1836). 'William Fish born to Michael and Hannah (nee Shorrock). June 22nd, 1836.' These two pieces of evidence: that he was very young when he married and that he was described as a bachelor in the marriage register, are sufficient to convince me that there was no earlier wife name Emily. You know the rest of Michael's story from my first letter. There is an English saying, 'Marry in haste, repent at leisure,' and that seems to sum it up as far as Michael was concerned. It would raise eyebrows even today, an eighteen year old youth getting a woman of almost thirty pregnant. There was no such thing as divorce in those days, so once you married, you remained married. Yes, he did eventually leave his wife (in May 1862 according to John Marsden in correspondence with Jay Strong on 3 December 1997) but he was not free to marry again until she had died. He was about 59 years old when Hannah passed on and he outlived her by a further nine years--but they are buried together in the same grave." [6]

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    • Please see web tags.

      In a note from John Marsh (of England) and Jay Strong (a Strong descended from Jacob Strong and Alice Fish Walsh): "The Exact wording of the Fish/Shorrock marriage entry reads as follows:

      'Michael Fish of this parish, bachelor and weaver and Ann Shorrock of this parish, spinster, were married in this church by banns, with consent, this fifteenth day of February in the year 1836, by me Gilmour Robinson, (both parties signed with a cross; i.e. they could not write their names) in the presence of Joseph Fairbrother and James Neville.'"

      A marriage between Michael Fish and an Emily almost certainly never took place. It is highly probably that in the 1851 Census, Emilie was mistakenly inserted as the name for his wife, Ann. Please see Census for 1851. All of the children, including a new baby, are listed as being with Michael and "Emilie". He appears in the 1851 Census of Over Darwen with a wife Emilie and in the 1861 Census of Over Darwen with a wife Hannah. He had a child by Hannah (Ann) in 1851. Documentation of his marriage to Hannah (Ann) in 1836 has been found.
     
  • Sources 
    1. [S975] Jay Strong Letter from John Stuart Marsden, Personal correspondence; 17 August 1997.

      "Michael Fish of this parish, bachelor and weaver and Ann Shorrock of this parish, spinster, were married in this church by banns, with consent, this fifteenth day of February in the year 1836, by me Gilmour Robinson, (both parties signed with a cross; i.e. they could not write their names) in the presence of Joseph Fairbrother and James Neville."

    2. [S976] John Marsden Research.
      Date of letter to Jay Strong: 3 Dec 1997.

    3. [S1096] Lancashire, England, Marriages and Banns, 1754-1936.
      In Lancashire, England, Marriages and Banns, 1754-1936, Image 517/1355.
      In Lancashire Anglican Parish Registers, p. 169, #506

    4. [S1101] England Marriages, 1538-1973.
      "England Marriages, 1538–1973 ," index, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:N6TY-42T : accessed 22 April 2015), Michael Fish and Ann Shorrock, 15 Feb 1836; citing Blackburn, Lancaster, England, reference it2, p169, no506; FHL microfilm 1,278,808.
      Please see web tag.

    5. [S1188] Marriages 1835-1837.
      Page 169, Entry 506
      Michael Fish, Weaver and Ann Shorrock, Spinster, both of the Blackburn Parish.
      Witness: Joseph Fairbrother; James Neville

    6. [S33] Professional Research done by John Anderegg.

  

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