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Dorset / Re: Does anyone know Arabella ? from West Milton, Dorset.?
« on: Saturday 02 March 24 20:23 GMT (UK) »
@mckha489, that's a spelling I didn't try. Thank you for finding this.
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Dorset / Re: Does anyone know Arabella ? from West Milton, Dorset.?
« on: Saturday 02 March 24 19:14 GMT (UK) »
@mckha489, thank you for looking. I shall go and look for the birth certificate online and go from there. Thank you again.
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Dorset / Re: Does anyone know Arabella ? from West Milton, Dorset.?
« on: Saturday 02 March 24 18:59 GMT (UK) »
@mckha489 I don't have Latimer's birth certificate, I figured he was Arabella's son, as he appears on a later census return with Arabella and James Roffey, and is registered as James' step-son.
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Dorset / Re: Does anyone know Arabella ? from West Milton, Dorset.?
« on: Saturday 02 March 24 18:57 GMT (UK) »
@bearkat, yes, that's David's daughter, Isabella.
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Dorset / Does anyone know Arabella ? from West Milton, Dorset.?
« on: Saturday 02 March 24 18:19 GMT (UK) »
Arabella is rumoured to have been born between 1837 and 1842 in West Milton (Powerstock/Poorstock), married a George Dunn and given birth to son Latimer Dunn in 1861.
After which she appears to have ditched both and married James Roffey (b.1847) from Godstone, Surrey and had a daughter Annie Mary in 1869 in Wimbledon, Surrey. They then moved back to Dorset, to Piddletrenthide, then a quick stint in Milton, Hampshire and finally back to Buckland Newton and Branksome, where Arabella Roffey died in 1902 and James in 1924 in Lytchett Matravers.
Latimer is registered as the nephew of David Dunn, with whom he is staying in 1871 (which made me wonder if his father had died). David was born in 1800 and has only 1 brother Henry. So I wondered if maybe the nephew was a mistake and maybe he was his grandson, but while David has sons Henry and George, George was married to Ann Crann in 1855 and she died nine years after him, in 1909. So I'm assuming he's not Latimer's father on the basis that Latimer's baptism record shows his parents as married. Although I can find no marriage for a George Dunn to an Arabella.
I also cannot find a marriage for a James Roffey to an Arabella, Dunn or otherwise.
I have seen that some Arabella names are being mis-translated as Isabella, but that isn't helping as I can find no marriage for a George Dunn nor a James Roffey to an Isabella either. I have also tried Annabella.
Would anyone happen to have other ideas about tracking down the elusive Arabella.?
Thanking you in advance.
After which she appears to have ditched both and married James Roffey (b.1847) from Godstone, Surrey and had a daughter Annie Mary in 1869 in Wimbledon, Surrey. They then moved back to Dorset, to Piddletrenthide, then a quick stint in Milton, Hampshire and finally back to Buckland Newton and Branksome, where Arabella Roffey died in 1902 and James in 1924 in Lytchett Matravers.
Latimer is registered as the nephew of David Dunn, with whom he is staying in 1871 (which made me wonder if his father had died). David was born in 1800 and has only 1 brother Henry. So I wondered if maybe the nephew was a mistake and maybe he was his grandson, but while David has sons Henry and George, George was married to Ann Crann in 1855 and she died nine years after him, in 1909. So I'm assuming he's not Latimer's father on the basis that Latimer's baptism record shows his parents as married. Although I can find no marriage for a George Dunn to an Arabella.
I also cannot find a marriage for a James Roffey to an Arabella, Dunn or otherwise.
I have seen that some Arabella names are being mis-translated as Isabella, but that isn't helping as I can find no marriage for a George Dunn nor a James Roffey to an Isabella either. I have also tried Annabella.
Would anyone happen to have other ideas about tracking down the elusive Arabella.?
Thanking you in advance.
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Dorset / Re: William Stickland, Steeple - No Show After 1841
« on: Thursday 15 February 24 17:49 GMT (UK) »
@LizzieL, William Hopkins is Harriet's father... 
I just found the baptism entry in St. Helier... she is registered as Harriet Hopkins. Which begs the question why were the Hopkins family named Stickland in the 1871 census.? I'm sure the William Stickland is actually William Hopkins.. and that there was no William Stickland.
Which means I'm back to square one.
I just found the baptism entry in St. Helier... she is registered as Harriet Hopkins. Which begs the question why were the Hopkins family named Stickland in the 1871 census.? I'm sure the William Stickland is actually William Hopkins.. and that there was no William Stickland.Which means I'm back to square one.
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Dorset / Re: William Stickland, Steeple - No Show After 1841
« on: Thursday 15 February 24 12:25 GMT (UK) »
And the strange thing, for me anyway, is that Hannah, Jesse and William are back with William Hopkins in the 1881, 1891 and 1901 census for England.
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Dorset / Re: William Stickland, Steeple - No Show After 1841
« on: Thursday 15 February 24 10:37 GMT (UK) »
@LizzieL
Honestly, absolutely nothing. The note I wrote back in 2014 just has Henry Stickland 1792, above William Stickland b.1825 Steeple, Dorset. Then the names Hannah b.1826, Hope b.1851, Harriet b.1861 St. Helier, Jersey, CI. I also noted William was an Ag Lab and Gardener.
This far forward I can't remember where I found that information, but am going forward with it because of the supposed connection to William through Henry.
I've also checked the information given here, and it does seem to line up..
Honestly, absolutely nothing. The note I wrote back in 2014 just has Henry Stickland 1792, above William Stickland b.1825 Steeple, Dorset. Then the names Hannah b.1826, Hope b.1851, Harriet b.1861 St. Helier, Jersey, CI. I also noted William was an Ag Lab and Gardener.
This far forward I can't remember where I found that information, but am going forward with it because of the supposed connection to William through Henry.
I've also checked the information given here, and it does seem to line up..
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Dorset / Re: William Stickland, Steeple - No Show After 1841
« on: Wednesday 14 February 24 14:44 GMT (UK) »
No. It's not the right marriage... William's father's name is Henry.. whereas the marriage record states the groom's father as George Stickland.