KIRKMAN, John - Extra Data
(member of George SMITH's Party)
Manchester Central Library
Baptisms in the Collegiate Church of St.Mary, St.Denys and St.George (later Manchester Cathedral)
National Archives, Kew, London
Register of Births and Baptisms at the Independent Chapel on Mosley Street in Manchester, Lancashire RG4 / Piece 2694 / Folio 22
Margaret, daughter of John and Mary KIRKMAN, weaver, baptised 29 June 1817 (born 11 April 1817)
Register of Births and Baptisms at the Independent Chapel on Mosley Street in Manchester, Lancashire RG4 / Piece 2694 / Folio 24
Martha, daughter of John and Mary KIRKMAN, weaver, baptised December 9 1819 (born June 14 1819)
Sources in South Africa list the wife of John KIRKMAN as Mary Alice ASHWORTH, with a marriage in Cheshire. This appears to have originated from a submitted IGI entry, but there is no gravestone or death notice to prove Mary's maiden name. However, there is a marriage in the Collegiate Church of St.Mary, St.Denys and St.George (later Manchester Cathedral), where their first child was baptised, which seems a likely match.
The date and place of this marriage fits, as does John's occupation, and the signature bears a strong resemblance to his signature on the 1823 Settler Statement (qv)
The top signature below is from the Settler Statement, and the bottom one from the marriage of John KIRKMAN to Mary HEALES.
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