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LizzieW
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Whilst looking at the parish records for the marriage of my 3 x g.grandmother, I noticed that most women, if unmarried, were described as "Spinster". However, my 3 x g.grandmother was shown as "Single Woman". Was this difference due to the fact that when she married on 24 August 1816, she had already had a child (with 3 x g.grandfather) on 30 April 1816? Did spinster equate to virgin?
Lizzie
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BENSON- Dalton in Furness (Ulverston) and Hull
BETTISON - Derbys
BOULTON - Dalton-in-Furness and surrounding areas
BRAND - Lincs
COCKETT - Lincs, Yorks, Lancs
DA COSTA (or variants) - Spain or Portugal, London (Middx), ?Hull
GILCHRIST - Scotland, Lincs
HINGLEY - Derbys/Yorks
MANN - Sussex, Kent, Herts
MUMBY - Lincolnshire and Hull
PEMBERTON - Ches, Lancashire
STANTON - Lincs
ROBINSON - Lincs
WHITTAKER/WHITAKER - Ches/Lancs
WRIGHT- Bethnal Green
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stanmapstone
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My answers only refer to England and Wales
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Spinster is the proper legal designation of a woman still unmarried, Single Woman means exactly the same.
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LizzieW
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Just wondered why, rarely over many pages, single woman was written and in the same hand as all the other entries, sometimes on the same date. All I could think of was that it was because 3 x g.grandmother (and perhaps the others) had had a child before marriage, or maybe the parish clerk just felt like having a change 
Lizzie
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BENSON- Dalton in Furness (Ulverston) and Hull
BETTISON - Derbys
BOULTON - Dalton-in-Furness and surrounding areas
BRAND - Lincs
COCKETT - Lincs, Yorks, Lancs
DA COSTA (or variants) - Spain or Portugal, London (Middx), ?Hull
GILCHRIST - Scotland, Lincs
HINGLEY - Derbys/Yorks
MANN - Sussex, Kent, Herts
MUMBY - Lincolnshire and Hull
PEMBERTON - Ches, Lancashire
STANTON - Lincs
ROBINSON - Lincs
WHITTAKER/WHITAKER - Ches/Lancs
WRIGHT- Bethnal Green
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XPhile2868
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Could it not be due to her age? Was she too young to be considered a spinster?
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Smith (Lancashire), McKenna (Ireland/Liverpool/Leyland), Maynard (Hertfordshire/London/Preston), Ricketts (Gloucestershire/Wigan/Preston), Scowcroft (Preston), Harling (N. Yorkshire/Lancashire), Willis (Preston), Clegg (Manchester/Preston), Dodd (Wigan/Cheshire), Alston (Lancashire), Hulks (Hertfordshire), Nicholson (Lancashire), Russell (Lancashire), Wilson (Kendal) Census information is Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk |
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stanmapstone
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My answers only refer to England and Wales
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If she was a minor, under the age of 21, the register would have after "with consent of" the name of her parent or guardian.
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LizzieW
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Could it not be due to her age? Was she too young to be considered a spinster?
No she was 24, I found her birth as well, so a good day's work, I found she had two daughters I didn't know of, the one born before she married and then a 2nd one, who were both too old to be on the 1841 census, i.e. they had left home. (No deaths registered). I then found the births and baptisms of all the sons I knew they had, except my 2 x g.grandfather! I know I have the correct family because of various census, marriage certs etc. Of course, when I got back home and looked at my records, I saw on the 1901 census, he had actually put his town of birth, rather than just the County and unlike his siblings, he had been born in a nearby town and I hadn't looked at those records!
Lizzie
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BENSON- Dalton in Furness (Ulverston) and Hull
BETTISON - Derbys
BOULTON - Dalton-in-Furness and surrounding areas
BRAND - Lincs
COCKETT - Lincs, Yorks, Lancs
DA COSTA (or variants) - Spain or Portugal, London (Middx), ?Hull
GILCHRIST - Scotland, Lincs
HINGLEY - Derbys/Yorks
MANN - Sussex, Kent, Herts
MUMBY - Lincolnshire and Hull
PEMBERTON - Ches, Lancashire
STANTON - Lincs
ROBINSON - Lincs
WHITTAKER/WHITAKER - Ches/Lancs
WRIGHT- Bethnal Green
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LizzieW
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Possibly, but he seemed to have a similar mental block every two to three days. I just thought perhaps it was his way of stating that the woman had a child, without being seen to be prejudiced.
Lizzie
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BENSON- Dalton in Furness (Ulverston) and Hull
BETTISON - Derbys
BOULTON - Dalton-in-Furness and surrounding areas
BRAND - Lincs
COCKETT - Lincs, Yorks, Lancs
DA COSTA (or variants) - Spain or Portugal, London (Middx), ?Hull
GILCHRIST - Scotland, Lincs
HINGLEY - Derbys/Yorks
MANN - Sussex, Kent, Herts
MUMBY - Lincolnshire and Hull
PEMBERTON - Ches, Lancashire
STANTON - Lincs
ROBINSON - Lincs
WHITTAKER/WHITAKER - Ches/Lancs
WRIGHT- Bethnal Green
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