Any help at all please with this brick wall. Benjamins wife was Catherine? and he had 4 children Charles b 1840, Adelaide 1845, Eustace 1847 and Heber 1852. He was a schoolmaster, all this from the census'
For anyone else looking Catherine was also born in Kimbolton, as were the children. So on the face they should have married in Kimbolton. But I can't see a marriage on the BVRI which covers post 1837, nor on Hunts Marriage Index which goes up to 1837. I'm still looking
If you get a copy of the birth certificate of one of the children (assuming their births were registered) you will get the mother's maiden name.
David
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Census information is Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk Beds: Cople: Luke/Spencer Everton: Hale Henlow: Cooper/Watts/Sabey Potton: Merrill Southill: Faulkner/Litchfield/Sabey Woburn/Husborne Crawley: Surkitt Hunts: Gt Gransden: Merrill/Chandler/Medlock Toseland: Surkitt/Hedge/Corn Cambs: Bourn: Bowd Eltisley: Medlock Graveley: Ford/Revell
Still nothing! Your best bet is to get the birth cert of one of the children - Eustace's birth was registered in the Dec quarter 1845 per FreeBMD. Is his middle name of Carey a clue?
In 1841 a Thomas Armsby was living with them. There were other Armsbys living in Kimbolton. Might he have been Catherine's brother? (The IGI has an extracted birth on 3 May 1816 of Catherine Armsby daughter of Richard Armsby and Deborah Croxton taken from the records of The Dissenting Meeting House-Baptist, Kimbolton)
David
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Census information is Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk Beds: Cople: Luke/Spencer Everton: Hale Henlow: Cooper/Watts/Sabey Potton: Merrill Southill: Faulkner/Litchfield/Sabey Woburn/Husborne Crawley: Surkitt Hunts: Gt Gransden: Merrill/Chandler/Medlock Toseland: Surkitt/Hedge/Corn Cambs: Bourn: Bowd Eltisley: Medlock Graveley: Ford/Revell
Many thanks for all your hard work David, I was hoping someone would have him in their tree but I suppose that is too easy. I found the catherine Armsby baptism thankyou again.