Hannah MORGAN born Olney Buckinghamshire

[Newfloridian]

I'm looking for the family of Hannah MORGAN born about 1826 in Olney.

I have seen a possible family in the 1841 census in Dag Lane:

Robert (50) Shoemaker
Mary (50) Lacemeker
Samuel (25) Shoemaker
Martha (15) Lacemaker
Harry (4)

The reason for spotting this family is that Samuel Morgan married Frances Claypole in Northampton in September 1847
The subject of this enquiry, Hannah Morgan married  John Claypole (Frances' brother) in Northampton in  1846

Too much to be a coincidence by I would like to be certain.

Many thanks

Alan

[Milliepede]

I guess you don't have the fathers names from the marriages of Samuel and Hannah?

[Newfloridian]

Short of getting the actual marriage certificate I can't find a PR or other record for this marriage

Regards Alan

[louisa maud]

I don't think it is to much of a coincidence, I had the same in our family, brother and sister married brother and sister

If they married in Olney in Bucks I am sure the church records will be free to search at a record office unless the incumbent has kept the church ledgers

Following Samuel on the census his wife name seems to change from Nancy to Sarah, AND if I am correct they had a child born 1850, Marshall, who sadly died in 1854

Louisa Maud

[Newfloridian]

Hi Louisa

That's only half the story I'm afraid. The case in point seems to have wiped out a whole family (except the father):
All buried at All Saints Church, Northampton

There was a tragedy in a household in Northampton in October / November 1854. Three young children and their mother died within a period of three weeks. Causes of death given on the death certificates were as follows:

October 22nd Mary Ann (aged 2 years):  Scarlet fever 8 days
October 28th Marshall (aged 4 years): Scarlet fever 3 weeks
October 31st John (aged 1 year): Scarlet fever 1 week

November 13th Frances (mother aged 26 years): ****

The certified cause of death was typhus - but I really don't credit that. As "common things occur commonly" and as adults are also susceptible to scarlet fever I really don't believe that she was infested with lice and died of a totally different condition.

The husband, Samuel, married again the following year

[louisa maud]

What a very sad story,  I really don't know what to say.


Louisa Maud