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[northeastsurfing]

THANKS AGAIN< This has to be our family it makes sense, my uncle said there were three girls in John and Arthurs family under James Lees that he found. He was not sure on any other brothers. Below is the info you gave me. That wife marys name, John and Arthurs, ages matching their birth dates, it all seams to match. What do you think. Ron

Annie Lees 18 sister
Arthur Lees 16
Edward Lees 20
Ellen Lees 10 sister
Florence Lees 8 sister
Harold Lees 5
James Lees 40 (in my family tree)
James Lees 11
John Lees 14 my grandfarthers farther.
Mary Alice Lees 13 sister
Mary Ann Lees 39 (grimes?)
Thomas A Lees 4

 

[duckweed]

It seems right to me. I found two Mary Ann Grimes born in Liverpool that year but when I tried to find her in the 1861 census I couldn't find a Mary that fitted. The ones I looked at were either too old or too young or her mother had died. She could have gone over to Ireland I suppose or the surname has been so badly mispelled its just not showing up.
Here's some sites for you to search Free BMD (Births Marriages and Deaths) http//://freebmd.rootsweb.com
parish records at http://freepages.com/~hughwallis/IGIBatchNumbers/County/England
These records aren't complete but can be useful
I assume you already know familysearch
www.familysearch.org/Eng
personally added records are not always accurate on familysearch as some people try and link families together who may have the same name but originate 200 miles apart so make sure you have another reference from elsewhere on these records.
I think there is actually a place called Lees near Ashton. This is probably where your family came from. They certainly seem to go back several generations in the area.

 

[northeastsurfing]

Again thank you very much. About Marry grimes, you did find her married to James Lees correct? And a possible mother living with them. Besides that you could not find any back ground? Thanks, Again, the rest of your information I got. Ronnie Lees.

 

[northeastsurfing]

What was the Aspley House? I want to visit england and find the town where my family came from. What kind of town is ashton? Do you know. And the areas you spoke about are most of them in the same area? Ronnie Lees.

 

[duckweed]

Yes Mary Ann Grimes married James Lees in 1869 in Ashton under Lyne.
Yes Mossley Stalybridge Hurst are all in the same area as Ashton. This is now outer Manchester. If you click on the site addresses I gave you you will see the area. I think I found Mary's mother and father in Liverpool but can't be sure as Mary wasn't there. If so Mary's father was called Andrew and was also from Ireland. I think from County Sligo but the original manuscript is difficult to read.

 

[duckweed]

Here from GENUKI
Lees or Hey a chapelry in Ashton under Lyne and Rochdale parishes, Lancashire; contiguous to Yorkshire, and containing the village of Hey, 1/4 of a mile N of Lees Village, Near Lees railway station, and 1 1/2 mile east of Oldham. It was constituted in 1860 and its post town is Lees, under Manchester, Pop 3,132 Houses 669 , population of the Ashton portion 653. houses 145. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Manchester (1870-72)

Manchester airport is about 15 miles away.

The fact that your family is called Lees and Lees is part of Ashton under Lyne would indicate that your family has been there since surnames were invented (just after the Norman occupation) at least if not earlier.

 

[familyman]

not sure if i can help you there