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thindle
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Can anyone help please
« on: Sunday 18 May 08 00:19 BST (UK) »
How can I find out if an ancestor was a widow or not?
Thanks T
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« Reply #1 on: Sunday 18 May 08 00:50 BST (UK) »
Hi thindle

Depends where and when - but if she was living between 1841 and 1901, then Census to see what marital status was given - and looking for the death of a husband etc.

We would need more details to be able to give better advice!

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« Reply #2 on: Sunday 18 May 08 13:28 BST (UK) »
Hi, thanks for replying, No, it's well before 1841. In fact it's a century earlier, between 1735 and 1745.
Thanks again
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« Reply #3 on: Sunday 25 May 08 00:23 BST (UK) »
Quote from: thindle on Sunday 18 May 08 00:19 BST (UK)
How can I find out if an ancestor was a widow or not?
Thanks T

Bit of an odd question without any background, so apologies if any of this is stating the blindingly obvious and I'm missing your point.

1) Was she ever married?  If not, then she couldn't have been widowed.

2) If she was married, did she remarry?  If so, the register entry for her second (or subsequent) marriage is likely to say if she is a spinster or a widow.

3) Can you find her husband's burial?

4) Did her husband leave a will?

5) What does the record of her burial say?  In quite a few registers I've seen, female burials give their full names if spinsters or wives, but sometimes call them just Widow Thindle (or whatever their husband's surname was).
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« Reply #4 on: Sunday 25 May 08 14:24 BST (UK) »
Hi Thanks for getting in touch. One of the ladies in question Was  married at St James Altham  on 10/7/1733  to Robert Sharples.
I have no birth for his wife Ann Townley it just said  Of Clayton le Moors. Not that she was born there. He was born about 1692 of Gt Harwood. If that was his age he would have been 42 when his first child was born in 1743 and the last child 1749 His wife Ann could not have been around the same age as Robert she would then have been too old to have had the children.
The Parish Register says those children's parents were Robert and Ann Sharples. I cannot find another Robert Sharples born around 1700 to 1712 or so. Oh dear, I am really getting confused now.
I have gone through Altham, Church Kirk and Gt Harwood
Tess
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