Hi - thanks so much for having a look at this for me - its driving me round the bend
It gets confuseing because several people had the same first names, but I will try and clarify it
Mary Jane Carrington (d/o Walter & Mary Ann) married George Fowler in 1839, they lived in Uttoxetter to start off with, where their eldest son George Folwer II was born. At about the time this letter was written they had just taken on the lease of a farm in Donisthorpe and I suspect that George Fowler was there most of the time getting it ready for his wife and son to join him. They are there with him by the time the census was taken in June.
The letter which is from Mary Jane (now Fowler) to her husband starts
My dear
I have just recieved you note it gave me much pleasure to see your hand writing you set off in such a hurry that I quite forgot to ask you to write to me. ......
I don't think she is at Creighton at this point the top of the letter just says Uttoxeter and further on in it she mentions that 'Thomas took the sheep to Creighton on Thursday' I think if she was at Crieghton she would have said that Thomas bought the sheep here.
Also mentioned 'Uncle John was at Creighton last evening he had been to Croxden the day before, he said that poor Martha was not so well that day she had a good deal more pain in her leg.
Uncle John - would be John Carrington who farmed at Croxden, he was married to Martha (nee Smith) who died later that year.
The George Carrington that you found at Crieghton is another of the brothers in total there were
Walter born 1784
Samuel born 1787 died 1822
William born 1789 died 1833
Thomas born 1791 died 1868
George born 1794 died 1876
John born 1798 ish died 1875
Mary born 1799 who married Francis Parramore
Jane born 1802 who married Rev Walter Eddows
Elizabeth born 1809 married Thomas Smith
they were all children on William Carrington and Elizabeth (nee Shaw)
You will see that the youngest daughter Elizabeth is only one year older than her neice also Elizabeth Carrington the other daughter of Walter and Mary Ann, it gets more complicated because several of them married cousins or second cousins.
I had thought that the Mary Ann who died in 1845 was the wife of George - he is a widower by 1851, but you may be right and it would be worth taking another look at it.
I just can't believe that Walter could just dissapear - these people were reasonably well off and educated farmers and landowners.
I don't know who died in 1841 - could be a member of the Godrich family (her mothers maiden name)
Debbie
