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Re: Searching for Molly Richings - Gloucestershire
« Reply #15 on: Tuesday 25 August 09 11:34 UTC (UK) »
Quote from: cello on Saturday 15 August 09 21:36 UTC (UK)
Thanks Osprey

No, unfortunately I don't know anything about Bertha at all.

I have found a Bertha King, aged 19, b 1882, born at Houghton, Essex on the 1901 census RG13 2815/52/14

Maybe this is her.

I had a quick look on Fibis but couldn't find anything relevant, but will keep looking at some of the links from there.

If we assume that Frank and Bertha stayed at Aston-on-Carrant until their deaths, the district I think we probably need is Cheltenham.  I have had no joy at all with any of my Richings family on FreeBMD and have no idea when either Frank or Bertha died.

Cello

Good to see Molly is emerging thanks to Osprey. I ran the information about the Aston under Carrant connection around my Richings relatives in Gloucestershire and not surprisingly drew a complete blank.

Houhgton the village is in Cambridgeshire near Huntingdon but there is a Houghton Manor near Brentwood in Essex. I imagine it was a pretty rural area at the time so perhaps Bertha was a country lass or a domestic servant.

At first sight the mis- transcription of Houghton to Loughboro' seems a bit unlikely but if one is a bit careless with the H they both appear to start Lough and to squashed together easily looks like a b
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