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NooshieW
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1851 Census Lookup Please - Plymouth
« on: Wednesday 16 April 08 19:13 BST (UK) »
We are looking for our g-g-grandmother Mary Andrews on the 1851 Census of Plymouth.  She would be aged around 50 and was possibly widowed by then.  She may have been living alone as her children would have all have left home by then.   Many thanks!
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Re: 1851 Census Lookup Please - Plymouth
« Reply #1 on: Wednesday 16 April 08 19:18 BST (UK) »
do u know where she was born raa
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Re: 1851 Census Lookup Please - Plymouth
« Reply #2 on: Wednesday 16 April 08 19:20 BST (UK) »
Hi

The Devon 1851 has 8 entries for a Mary Andrews born between 1799-1803.  None in Plymouth

You say she might be widowed

Where was she born and what was her husbands name - just in case
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« Reply #3 on: Thursday 17 April 08 13:54 BST (UK) »
She may have been born as early as 1795 - 6.  She was born "In Devon" as per the 1841 Census.  Possibly widowed by the 1851  Census.  Her husband was Richard Andrews - 10 years older than her.  They had several children most of whom remained in Plymouth (some we have been unable to trace however, Elizabeth, Eliza, Joseph and Sarah).  The whole family has been very difficult to research probably due to the name "Andrews" being rather common.    Richard & Mary married in 1821 in East Stonehouse, Plymouth.   Richard was an Army man who had served in the Peninsular War.   Mary had remarried by 1860 to someone called "Stumbles".   We only know this from a change to the Parish Register in 1861 relating to one of her sons.  However we have never been able to find a Mary Stumbles subsequently.   All very frustrating.  Thanks a lot!!!
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Re: 1851 Census Lookup Please - Plymouth
« Reply #4 on: Saturday 19 April 08 13:14 BST (UK) »
Found the deaths of 3 Richard Andrews between 1837 and 1841. One in the 1st quarter 1844, one in the 1st quarter 1847 and one in the 2nd quarter 1847 all in Plymouth.

I don't understand the Stumbles connection in 1860 unless after Richard died she married a Stumble as you say or a child was illegitimate and took on the real father's name after Richard died. Have you got the name of all of the children? It may help to identify Mary on the 1851 although I have found one age 57 a widow, working as a servant. Place of birth Plymouth.

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Re: 1851 Census Lookup Please - Plymouth
« Reply #5 on: Saturday 19 April 08 22:35 BST (UK) »
Hi,
We have had a breakthrough!! We went to the records office yesterday and looked up the original entry in the baptisms, which gave us the name 'Stumbles' as the surname of our great great great grandmother by her second marriage. We have spent years looking for a 'Stumbles' marriage and had drawn a blank. Out of frustration ,I thought we would go and look up the original entry to see if the transcribers had read the name wrong in the register. Low and behold the name is not 'Stumbles',but 'Hunter'!!We had a Mary Hunter in our census records for years,but thought it was a mother -in -law, not our direct ancester.
So the mystery of the Stumbles thing is solved!!
Thanks anyway, but we have now found out she re-married a Robert Hunter in 1850 and he died in 1856. Richard Andrews therefore died before 1850 in Plymouth.
Thanks again
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Nooshie
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Re: 1851 Census Lookup Please - Plymouth
« Reply #6 on: Saturday 19 April 08 22:56 BST (UK) »
Nooshie

That's brilliant news  Grin Shocked I know you have been searching for the Stumbles marriage for a long time .... I think I tried a while back  Roll Eyes

How great for you ... the brick wall has come tumbling down ,,,how on earth did Stumbles = Hunter??  Cool

deb

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Re: 1851 Census Lookup Please - Plymouth
« Reply #7 on: Saturday 19 April 08 23:47 BST (UK) »
So it looks like one of the 3 Richards I found could be the right one.

Good luck with the search.

Margaret
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