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Tracing Cades of Gamlingay
posted Saturday, 9 April 2005
Sometimes it's nice to receive certificates that appear to support detective work through the censuses and other indexes. My maternal grandmother was Elizabeth Fage. From her birth certificate (in Sandy, Bedfordshire) I know that her mother was Alice, formerly Cade (born 1872 in Gamlingay). From Alice's birth and marriage certificates I also know that her father (my great-great grandfather Cade) was named Jonathan and her mother Ann (formerly Head).
The 1871 census has a Jonathan and Ann Cade living in Gamlingay with their children Arthur, Susan and one-year old Harry. Ann's birthplace is Potton, Bedfordshire, the rest of the family having been born in Gamlingay. In the 1881 census, Jonathan is a widower aged 40, living with his sons Arthur, Harry and Walter (aged 6) and daughter Susan. Alice is found in Fen Stanton, Huntingdon, aged 8, with her uncle Samuel Head and his wife. The IGI has a christening record for Jonathan Cade, son of Reuben and Susan, in Gamlingay in 1841.
Those various pieces led to the arrival of a certificate yesterday for the marriage of Jonathan Cade and Ann Head in June 1862, in Gamlingay. Jonathan's sister Hephzibah is shown as a witness. Their parents' marriage certificate (Gamlingay, 1839) also arrived at the same time, showing Reuben's bride as Susanna Baines, his father as James and hers as William Baines, both labourers. So there are two more steps forward (in research terms) and backwards in time through the parish register indexes to find Reuben's and Susanna's christenings, their fathers' marriages that will hopefully reveal their wives former surnames and perhaps even their christenings.
The 1871 census has a Jonathan and Ann Cade living in Gamlingay with their children Arthur, Susan and one-year old Harry. Ann's birthplace is Potton, Bedfordshire, the rest of the family having been born in Gamlingay. In the 1881 census, Jonathan is a widower aged 40, living with his sons Arthur, Harry and Walter (aged 6) and daughter Susan. Alice is found in Fen Stanton, Huntingdon, aged 8, with her uncle Samuel Head and his wife. The IGI has a christening record for Jonathan Cade, son of Reuben and Susan, in Gamlingay in 1841.
Those various pieces led to the arrival of a certificate yesterday for the marriage of Jonathan Cade and Ann Head in June 1862, in Gamlingay. Jonathan's sister Hephzibah is shown as a witness. Their parents' marriage certificate (Gamlingay, 1839) also arrived at the same time, showing Reuben's bride as Susanna Baines, his father as James and hers as William Baines, both labourers. So there are two more steps forward (in research terms) and backwards in time through the parish register indexes to find Reuben's and Susanna's christenings, their fathers' marriages that will hopefully reveal their wives former surnames and perhaps even their christenings.
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