George Crossley

	Date	Location	Notes	Sources
Birth
Marriage	31 Jan 1836	Manchester at St. Mary's Church, Lancaster Co., England	To Jane Vickerstaffe
Death

Ancestry chart segment

 Generation 4             Generation 5          Generation 6
  
                                            +-- John Forster
                                            |   (????-????)
                      +-- George Crossley --+ 
                      |   (????-????)       |
 Elizabeth Crossley --+                     +-- Sarah Crossley   
 (~1839-1871)         |                         (????-????)
                      +-- Jane Vickerstaffe
                          (????-????)       
 
Sources: 

Children

(children with Jane Vickerstaffe)

Name	Gender	Date of Birth	Birthplace	Spouse	Notes	Sources
Elizabeth Crossley	F	1839	Ireland

Places of Residence

Location	Dates	Notes	Sources

Sources

Ref. Num.	Description	Image of original
1	Personal Records of Lois L. Robertson.	N/A
2	Personal communication from Peter N. Robertson.	N/A
3	Marriage Record from Manchester at St. Mary's, Lancaster Co., England, includes an entry for George Crossley, bachelor, and Jane Vickerstaff, spinster, married in the church on 31 Jan 1836. Note the use of the "long s" in old English when using an S in the middle of a word which gives it the look of a cursive lower-case f, or "Crofsley" (see [1]).

Research

• There is an 1861 England Census record available on ancestry.com for Devon, Revelstoke, District 4, showing John Forster, 48?, and his wife Sarah Forster, 53, with a son George, 10. This is clearly too young to be our George, whose daughter is said to have been born in 1839. I only list this here because I don't have any information about where the Robertson research came up with the John and Sarah names for George's parents, and it's possible that they came from this source erroneously. There are already some questions about George's parents, in that he seems to have taken his mother's maiden name rather than his father's name (again, according to the Robertson research).

• Along the same lines, there is an 1851 England Census, for Yorkshire, Leeds, Wortley, district 2b, pg. 15, showing John Cropley(Crosley?), 48, and Sarah Cropley(Crosley?), 44, with a son George Cropley, 12. Again, far too young to be our George.