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- We are guessing that Charles was born around 1794. There is no Sandal M agna Church record of his birth or marriage on the LDS IGI file. Charle s was a stone mason as evidenced on the baptism record of Henry, his so n, which we got a copy of the original while in England in April 1995. ( 2) We have now discovered that Charles had died in approximately 1839, p robably in his early forties. In checking the 1841 census, Mary is lis ted as a widow 45 years of age and she has a two year old child named C harles, therefore, we expect that Charles senior must have died between 1 838 & 1839. It can also be noted, in the same census records, that Mary w as listed as having been born in the county of York, therefore, there i s a good chance Charles was also born in York, perhaps making it easier t o determine his parents. It was in this census that we also discovered H enry was not the oldest child in the family as previously thought. He h ad an older brother John and an older brother Thomas. John was 14 in t he 1841 census and Thomas was 15 in the 1841 census. The baptism recor ds for Henry and the two sisters were listed in the LDS IGI file, but t here were no records for John, Thomas or Charles listed in the LDS IGI f ile as of July, 1995. It could be that the records do exist and have n ever been listed in the IGI by anyone. We will now order the microfilm f or the Sandal Magna parish and try to determine exact birth dates / pro of. We will also search for a possible marriage record for Charles and M ary in the same parish files. In young Charles' case, it maybe that th ey never did get him baptized due to the fact he would have been born n ot long after his father's death. In the case of John and Thomas, it c ould also be that the family either did not go to the Sandal Magna Chur ch at that time, or they had not lived in that same area at the time of t heir births.
As a child, my father had been told by his grandfather, James, that his g reat great grandfather had died in a ship wreck off of the African coas t. We don' t know for sure if this is true but, with Charles' early de ath, there could be some truth in the story.
October 25, 1995
I have found in the Sandal Magna Parish records that the 1841 Parish po pulation was Sandal area 1281, Walton 488, Crigglestone 1479, Bretton 5 64. The Sandal Magna Parish population in 1851 was, Sandal 1536, Walto n 473, Crigglestone 1822, Bretton 492. I have also discovered that Cha rles was born to Thomas and Margaret Stafford on October 16, 1798. He w as at least one of seven children with a younger brother named Henry, w hich is the name he gave to his own third son. I still need to check t he death register for Charles' early death in approximate date of 1838 o r 1839. Also I will have to search the marriage records further to che ck for a marriage record for Charles and Mary in the 1820-1825 timefram e.
I should have also noted in this timeframe, that I had forwarded a GEDC OM family history file to the LDS for inclusion to their records.
A note here about the Sandal gravesite many of the Staffords were burie d in. The cemetery records lists --- (A) Henry Strafford --- at the to p of the record for that gravesite and then there is a note in parenthe sis (removed).
Charles is also listed as a stone mason on Margaret's marriage records. ..see his daughter Margaret's notes.
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1798 - 1840 (41 years)
