Talk:Reginald Aspinwall
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Date of birth
[edit]Lancaster Online Parish Clerks is a transcript of Births, Marriages and Deaths for Lancashire. It shows a record as follows:
Baptism: 15 Apr 1855 St Mary the Virgin, Blackburn, Lancashire, England Reginald Aspinwall - [Child] of John Aspinwall & Jane Born: 3 Jan 1855 Abode: Preston Occupation: Newspaper Reporter [1]
Note the date of birth is 1855 not 1858 as in the Wikipedia page. There is no similar entry for 1858. The 1861 census entry for Preston lists the following:
4 Grafton Street, Preston John Aspinwall, head, married, 46, reporter for a newspaper, born Lancashire Salford Jane Aspinwall, wife, married, 31, no occupation, born Lancashire Preston Reginald Aspinwall, son, aged 6, scholar, born Lancashire Preston[2]
The entry for the census of 1871 confirms that Reginald was attending Art School - further evidence that this is the correct Reginald:
Reginald Aspinwall, son, unmarried, 16, School of Art (apprentice), born Lancashire Preston [3]
I am therefore confident that 1855 is the correct date of birth, not 1858. Fgtbell (talk) 16:14, 14 April 2018 (UTC)
References
- ^ Lancashire Online Parish Clerks http://www.lan-opc.org.uk/Search/indexp.html
- ^ Source Citation Class: RG 9; Piece: 3129; Folio: 115; Page: 61; GSU roll: 543083 Source Information Ancestry.com. 1861 England Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2005.
- ^ Source Citation Class: RG10; Piece: 4205; Folio: 20; Page: 34; GSU roll: 846952 Source Information Ancestry.com. 1871 England Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2004.
His occupation
[edit]I suggest Reginald should be known as a landscape painter unless counter-examples exist. I have looked and cannot find any - though of course it is not possible to know what may be in private collections. So I would propose to describe Reginald as a "landscape painter" unless anyone knows otherwise ? Fgtbell (talk) 17:51, 15 April 2018 (UTC)
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