Mystery fate: Thwaites / Gibson

[scatchardfamily]

I have managed to research up to two ancestors: Richard Thwaites & Jane Gibson, married 4 Sep 1825 and show in 1841 census in East Murton, listed as "Rich Twaits"!

They had a daughter Mary Jane, bap. 1828, who is my GGG Grandmother.

Trouble is, I don't know what became of Richard and Jane. I've tried coming forwards but they disappear. I cannot find them in 1851 and so on, and consequently don't know where they would be in the GROs.

Does anyone know how to break this brick wall down?

[CaroleW]

East Murton was in the Easington RD and there is a Jane Thwaites death there in 1842 on freebmd

[CaroleW]

The 1847 death in Durham for Richard Thwaites is a child death

[scatchardfamily]

Great re Jane Thwaites death - I guess have to order or ring up and ask clever questions?

Regarding the Richard death – how do you know it is an infant?

[CaroleW]

From his burial record

[Millmoor]

From Durham Records Online a burial for Jane Twhaites  in 1843 gives birth year as 1802 and residence as Murton New Winning.

William

[scatchardfamily]

Thanks William as well!

So, any ideas re Richard (senior)?

[CaroleW]

Richard was 35 in 1841 but ages were rounded down to the nearest 5yrs on that census so he could have been up to 39yrs old

The 1851 has an entry in Northumberland for a Richard Thwaites b Durham but he is only 41yrs old.  Can't make out whether he is married or unmarried

[Millmoor]

Might he have remarried?
1861 census has a Richard Thwaites b Durham 1802 a miner at Trimdon Grange with wife Elizabeth and children Robert, Elizabeth, Mary and Richard. This family is transcribed as Thwats in 1871.

(There is a marriage for a Richard Thwaites in Sunderland Jul- Sept 1845).

William

Added think this family has been transcribed as Twarts in 1851 and living at Hetton le Hole

Richard 49 miner
Elizabeth 37
Isabella 5
Elizabeth 3
Robert 1 mo

Places of birth seem to match with those in 1861 census.