william Jennings and Fanny Jennings

[feesca1]

Hi there I wonder if someone can help me I have a 1851 census of Fanny Jennings and children in the workhouse at Bury St Edmunds and can't find any info of William Jennings in the workhouse with his wife and children. William was born in 1813 at Ipswich Barracks I can trace all the family from 1851 to their deaths and no the addresses where they were living in that time. Would it be unusual for a wife to go in the workhouse on her own with the children without her husband. I can find Fanny and William in the 1861 census living in Middlesbrough by then.
Any help would be appreciated.
Thank you x

[down-under]

Could this be him?

1851 Brandsby Yorkshire
William Maw age 61
Jane wife  age 53
William Jennings age 38 lodger  married  ag lab  born Bury St Edmunds  Suffolk


Pam

[feesca1]

I will see if I can investigate it further I can't understand though if it is. why leave his wife and children in the workhouse if he did go to Yorkshire as his wife fanny was born at Husthwaite in Yorkshire. So that would be the mystery and they by the 1861 census were all living in Middlesbrough.  Thank you.

[jan57]

Maybe they were ill,   so  were in the hospital  part  of the workhouse, ?  some workhouse records may still exist  , so  maybe able to show  when the family had entered   

[Malcolm Bennett]

Fanny Jennings is my three greats grandmother.I too found her in the Bury St Edmunds workhouse while William was a lodger in Yorkshire.William was baptized in Culford.I believe his father was a soldier in the West Kent militia.I have some details of the regiment if interested.

[Dariqdaniel]

I have a legal document from 1831. It is from Kingsutton in the county of Northampton. It records Fanny Jennings living in a cottage with someone named Ann Ward. They seem to be renting off a man named William Paine and his nephew John Paine. It says the yearly rent was 5 shillings and 6 pence. Very interesting document.

[feesca1]

Hi there Daniel that sounds a very interesting document. How did you come by it please if you don't mind me asking.
Kind regards
Fiona x

[feesca1]

Daniel I don't know if it is the right fanny Jennings mine was born in husthwaite in 1824. Unless its to do with her husband William.
Kind regards
Fiona x