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Topic: Baptism of SARAH BURFIELD, Horsted Keynes, abt. 1790 (Read 149 times)
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Alberta_Dianne
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Hi I am new to this list and am hoping that someone can help me. My great x 4 grandmother was Sarah Burfield. I found her in 1841 married and living in Stepney. Her age on that census makes her birth around 1792. On her marriage one of the witnesses was Nathaneal Burfield (so I am making a leap and assuming that he was probably either a brother or a cousin). The only other info I have on Sarah is that she was not born in Middlesex and that she named one of her children Samuel Burfield Knight.
I have managed to locate Nathaneal on the IGI - he was baptised in Horsted Keynes on Jul 1st 1798 - the son of Benjamin and Susannah Burfield. I also came across a Samuel Burfield baptised again in Horsted Keynes on May 20 1787 - son of Samuel and Susannah Burfield.
From that info I am wondering if Sarah might well have also come from the same parish and am hoping that someone might be able to do a look-up for me. Thanks so much for any help.
Dianne in Alberta, Canada
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Alberta_Dianne
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Hi there - sorry for the long delay in getting back to you but I have been out of town for a few days. You are looking at the right census record with Robert Knight as a ropemaker. I haven't come across a son with that name in any records and had wondered if it was their son William who was born about 1826/1827.
Unfortunately I haven'able to pin down the right Sarah Knight death certificate yet and so cannot say for sure when she died or any information on the death certificate. I also have not been able to find her in the 1851 census though she is probably there somewhere.
I will keep tracking and try to find her. Thanks for all your help
Dianne
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Alberta_Dianne
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Hi again Andrea - thank you so much for your persistence in trying to help me with Sarah Burfield. I have the death certificate for her husband - he died in Ratcliff in 1845. Sarah died in 1869 in Shadwell at the age of 77. There are no clues to her identity in the death certificates. I have managed to pin down some of her children but she was not with them in 1851. She had I think 5 daughters so she might have been wrongly recorded under one of their married names on the census - or missed altogether.
In the 1861 census I found a likely looking record:
Sarah Knight aged 68 born Maidstone Kent (which surprised me). Living in Newington Surrey with two sons: John age 34 and George age 24. These two fit exactly with the ages of her sons John and George. It also reports that they were both born in Stepney which is correct for her sons. What I don't understand though is why she was in Surrey and why she went to Shadwell sometime before her death. Soooo, not many more answers and the plot thickens. Now I have to try and track down Burfields in Maidstone.
Anyway thanks for all your help, your patience and your advice.
Dianne
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