|
Pages: [1]
|
 |
|
Author
|
Topic: Lucy Scantlebury CRABB b. 1850, Bodmin (Read 412 times)
|
|
|
|
|
doctorbob
RootsChat Member
Posts: 138
Just trying to find my roots!
|
Hi Sylvia,
Many thanks. The Crabb - Scantlebury link is useful.
Eliza (b. 1840) was to Benjamin and Catherine Crabb (formerly Smith) - so the BC says ... so not married when living in North Tawton!
Further info I have ... Benjamin married Catherine (Smith) in 1843, Bodmin. They aslo had a son James in 1843, who died 10 months later of "a fit". An inquest was held. There is also a possble Edward born to them in 1845, which I have yet to check.
Catherine died in 1854 (age 30), and was in the Bodmin Workhouse. Also, another son James died in 1854, 3 months later. He was born 1853. I suspect this is another "Scantlebury" child.
Her Death cert says (wife of Benjamin Crabb, woolcomber). Not "widow". The informant was a Mrs Brown - not a crabb or a Scantlebury.
So, it looks like she was disowned.
I still have no idea what happened to Benjamin after 1844 (when James died).
No sign of him in a census anywhere, and so sign of a death. Curious.
Benjamin's father was James, and when he married in 1843, was down as an "Inn Keeper". James Crabb is down as the Inn Keeper for the Bull's Head in Callington in 1823 and 1830. By 1844 it was being run by Thomas Carpenter.
I am guessing this is him.
There is a will for a James Crabb, gentleman of Callington, made in 1856, he died 1857. He left money and a house to a son Benjamin!
However, even though I have a lot of detail on this line (they married into the Edgcumbes etc), I am thinking that this James may not be the same James running the Inn.
I am prepared to believe they are related in some way because of familial names ... but it sort of doesn't ring true with Benjamin being a woolcomber (pretty low down, even as an apprenticed trade), and his father owning farms and land and umpteen houses and cash! Also, if Benjamin was named in the Will in 1856, you would assume that it was known that he was alive and kicking ... and there seems to be no sign of him ... the others in the Will are around.
So, this one is still curious ...
So, any more digging would be great ...
Thanks,
Rob
|
|
|
|
|
Logged
|
Hampshire/Portsea: Fletcher/Hawkins/Sherwell/Shervill/Poland
Somerset/Dorest: King/Jarman/Davis/Room/Lewis
Devon: Marchant/Maunder/Moore/Parsons/Westaway/Wheaton/Hawkins
Cornwall: Crabb
Ireland,Co.Down: Hawkins
Notts and Northants: Slater/Slatcher/Fellowes/Longdon/Jackson
to name a few
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Pages: [1]
|
|
|
|
|
