In reply to a PM,
Although perhaps not as closely related as previously thought, the four LOVERIDGE siblings preceding Montague and Elizabeth in 1871BDF would seem to be first cousins of Elizabeth being children of Lemuel’s brother, Hammoleketh, who is abbreivated to Hookey on Lavinia’s marriage certificate.
These are all LOVERIDGEs buried at St Neots in Hunts. Almost all have either a LOVERIDGE or a PARKER as their mother. Noah LOVERIDGE has also been buried there since 2000.
HUN St Neots Cemetery d24/2/1960 (86) John
HUN St Neots Cemetery d8/12/1965 (90) Maria (same Gr as John)
HUN St Neots Cemetery d16/7/1969 (14) Sylvia (b25/2/1955) [mo: LOVERIDGE]
HUN St Neots Cemetery d4/8/1971 (75) Nancy (b Dec 1896) (same Gr as Charles)
HUN St Neots Cemetery d14/7/1979 (84) Charles (b7/3/1895)
HUN St Neots Cemetery d23/1/1983 (65) Phoebe (b4/6/1917)
HUN St Neots Cemetery d21/5/1985 (66) Bob (bDecQtr1919) [mo: PARKER]
HUN St Neots Cemetery d3/10/1988 (66) Ada (b1922) (same Gr as Bob)
HUN St Neots Cemetery d24/5/1988 (73) Nelson (b9/4/1915) [mo: PARKER]
HUN St Neots Cemetery d3/7/1989 (89) John (b1900)
HUN St Neots Cemetery d10/1/2000 (85) Jim (b3/5/1914) [mo: LOVERIDGE]
At 1841GLO-0350/14//15/7 is the family of Henry and Esther LOVERIDGE living at Taynton.
The following baptisms refer to the same parents although Henry was a SMITH and Esther (snr) a LOVERIDGE:
GLO Taynton bp2/8/1840 Hester Ann d/o Henry/Hester LOVERIDGE, hkr of T
WKS Ilmington St Nicholas bp4/6/1843 George s/o Henry/Esther, hkr of Taynton (GLO) [LOVEREDGE sic]
In 1881BKM-1476/16/25 is Sampson SMITH (34) born Wavendon BKM
In 1861BKM-1006/116/1 [repeated at 1006/128/18] there is an Israel DRAPER (25) born Woburn BDF married to Naomi. Recorded below Israel is an unnamed male child, surname SMITH, age 10 with his 20 year old sister, the son and daughter of a SMITH male (48) who was, I suspect, Henry SMITH, father of all the children in the same schedule. One of his children (baptised 15 February 1846 at Wavendon BKM) is the same as the Sampson in the 1881BKM census entry referred to above. Another, the 20 year old female, is probably Hester Ann (baptism shown above) and the 10 year old male is of the right age to be Alfred.
Another son, George, was then at 1871GLO-2572/28/14 with his wife, Sabina Ruth STEVENS. This branch is well known because their daughter, Anselina, with her husband Singi BUCKLAND, appears in a photograph opposite page 40 in JGLS(3)39 and is identified on page 36 of the same issue.
The mother of the family in 1861BKM, Esther SMITH, misleadingly looks as if she is the wife of William LEACH because of the way the information is set out but she is called a ‘travelling brazier’s wife’ which is the occupation of the 48 year old man (Henry) listed on the same page.
Alfred LOVER, his wife Comfort and their two eldest children, are linked to the above family because of their neighbourly relationship with Nelson and Naomi PARKER at:
1871BKM-1409/61/32 Nelson (35) trav’g tinker, Naomi (32) +5 (same at: 1871BKM-1410/53/23)
If Naomi’s age is correctly given, she should appear in 1841GLO but she does not (unless she has changed her name) but Esther (jnr) is in the correct spot. Naomi (1871BKM) is the same woman within the Esther SMITH family of 1861BKM. The difference is that Israel DRAPER is now called Nelson PARKER [see below]. Naomi’s daughter, Isabella, is 12 in 1871 (1 in 1861)
BKM Grendon Underwood bp11/9/1859 Isabella d/o Israel/Naomi DRAPER, ch.btr of G
BKM Bow Brickhill bp28/10/1834 Israel s/o Nelson/Esther DRAPER, gipsies
BKM Hambledon bp21/1/1827 (b9/1) Nelson s/o Spencer/Elizabeth DRAPER, gypsey
Although the above Nelson DRAPER, first cousin of Israel, has a good claim to have replaced him by 1871 I do not think he did. Israel changed his name to Nelson PARKER. His baptism is closer to the age given in the 1861 and 1871 censuses. His age advances by ten years from 1861 to 1871 and his daughter confirms that he was her father at her wedding (see below).
In the following it can be assumed that Lemontina and Comfort were two sisters, daughters of Naomi, where the alternative surnames, DRAPER and PARKER, could have derived just as much from Israel’s decision to change his name as it could from the husband she married three weeks later. Comfort is 4 in the 1871BKM extract while Lemontina is 1 in the following:
1881BKM-1471/22/37 Nelson (35) trav’g tinker or Gipsy, Naomi (35) +6
BKM Beachampton bp30/11/1898 Violet May d/o John/Comfort WELCH, trav’g tinker, no home
BKM Beachampton bp30/11/1898 James s/o Lemontina DRAPER (or PARKER) [sic], unmarried, trav’g
BKM Beachampton m19/12/1898 Leonard PARKER (full) tinker (fa: blank) = Lemontina DRAPER (full) (fa: Israel – grinder)
None of the above conclusively proves that Alfred LOVERIDGE was the son of Henry & Esther but he was closely connected to Naomi who was recorded as a daughter of Esther in 1861.
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