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Tracking widow Elizabeth Parish's earlier marriage
posted Saturday, 12 November 2005
Elizabeth Parish was a widow when she married my 3x great-grandfather Joseph Seaby in Caldecote on 2 November 1829. This piece of information came via a kind contribution from an accidental reader of MyRoots, and allowed me to find out a little more about Elizabeth and her early life, as well as tying up a few links in the Seaby line.
Boyd's marriage index at BritishOrigins, and the IGI, show the marriage of an Elizabeth Westnut and William Parish in Caldecote, Cambridgeshire, on 2 January 1826.
The 1841 census transcript from the Cambs FHS site indicates a birth year of 1811 for Elizabeth, by then married to Joseph Seaby. The information provided by David from the Dry Drayton parish register 1564-1851 on fiche seems to suggest that Elizabeth Seaby was buried on 22 February 1842, aged 33 (ie born around 1809). Elizabeth doesn't appear with Joseph and their children in the 1851 census transcript (Cambs FHS), so the burial in 1842 may well be of Elizabeth. A quick search of 1837Online reveals a likely entry in the indexes of deaths for the Jan-Mar quarter in 1842, in the Chesterton registration district (14, 35), which I'll now order.
The Cambs FHS baptism register transcripts online show Elizabeth, daughter of Robert and Jane Westnut, christened in 1809 in the parish of Hauxton, home of a church with medieval frescoes. Robert, son of Robert and Jane, was also christened in 1809, although it's not clear from the online record whether the children were twins or even christened on the same date. A daughter, Jane, was christened in the same parish in 1811. This information may or may not relate to 'our' Elizabeth Westnut, but I can find no other via the online Cambs FHS site, but further investigation is obviously needed to confirm.
Elizabeth would therefore have been somewhere between 15-17 years of age when she married William Parish, and around 17-19 when she was widowed.
The National Burial Index shows the burial of Wililam Parish, aged 24, at St Michael, Caldecote, in 1828 (born c.1804). The IGI has a christening entry for William Parish in April 1804, son of John and Mary Parish. The entry is for the parish of Histon and was submitted by a member of the LDS rather than being an extract from the parish registers.
Boyd's marriage index at BritishOrigins, and the IGI, show the marriage of an Elizabeth Westnut and William Parish in Caldecote, Cambridgeshire, on 2 January 1826.
The 1841 census transcript from the Cambs FHS site indicates a birth year of 1811 for Elizabeth, by then married to Joseph Seaby. The information provided by David from the Dry Drayton parish register 1564-1851 on fiche seems to suggest that Elizabeth Seaby was buried on 22 February 1842, aged 33 (ie born around 1809). Elizabeth doesn't appear with Joseph and their children in the 1851 census transcript (Cambs FHS), so the burial in 1842 may well be of Elizabeth. A quick search of 1837Online reveals a likely entry in the indexes of deaths for the Jan-Mar quarter in 1842, in the Chesterton registration district (14, 35), which I'll now order.
The Cambs FHS baptism register transcripts online show Elizabeth, daughter of Robert and Jane Westnut, christened in 1809 in the parish of Hauxton, home of a church with medieval frescoes. Robert, son of Robert and Jane, was also christened in 1809, although it's not clear from the online record whether the children were twins or even christened on the same date. A daughter, Jane, was christened in the same parish in 1811. This information may or may not relate to 'our' Elizabeth Westnut, but I can find no other via the online Cambs FHS site, but further investigation is obviously needed to confirm.
Elizabeth would therefore have been somewhere between 15-17 years of age when she married William Parish, and around 17-19 when she was widowed.
The National Burial Index shows the burial of Wililam Parish, aged 24, at St Michael, Caldecote, in 1828 (born c.1804). The IGI has a christening entry for William Parish in April 1804, son of John and Mary Parish. The entry is for the parish of Histon and was submitted by a member of the LDS rather than being an extract from the parish registers.
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