Paull

[paullrobathan]

Looking for information on Frances Elizabeth Muirhead Paull and her godmother Elizabeth Muirhead - Bristol and Jamaica??

[KGarrad]

Why post this under Monmouthshire? What is the link?

Do you have any dates?

EDIT:
Birth Registration, September qtr 1848
Chard Registration District     vol 10, page 392

Paull, Frances Elizabeth Miurhead

[KGarrad]

1851 census in Ilminster; parents John and Mary Arabella:
https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:SGPS-PF8


Parents marriage:
June qtr 1841
Clifton Registration District     vol 11, page 350

Paull, John
+ and, on the same page +
Berkeley, Mary Arabella


1861 census:
https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M7VP-7NS

[KGarrad]

By 1867, Frances is in Victoria, Australia having children with Joseph Wilkie.


Marriage:
March qtr 1866
Bedminster Registration District     vol 5c, page 1099

Paull, Frances E M
Wilkie, Joseph

[paullrobathan]

Frances Elizabeth Muirhead Paull married second to George Beckett Robathan in Islington in 1877, they lived in Risca in Monmouthshire, my Grandfather Francis Paull Robathan was their son. I am keen to understand why Frances took her godmother's name as her  middle names also how her god mother was buried in the same grave in Arnos Vale Bristol as Frances's father, mother and his 2 subsequent wives....I believe Elizabeth Muirhead originated from Jamaica.

[CaroleW]

Francis was born in Sussex

Births December qtr 1881   
ROBATHAM    Francis Paull        Brighton    2b   258

Surname is also Robatham on the 1877 marriage on freebmd but Robathan on the actual entry.  Marriage cert shows him as a surgeon

[KGarrad]

Elizabeth Muirhead was born c1785 in Kingston, Jamaica.

1851 census:
https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:SGBQ-1FW

She died in 1859:
June qtr 1859
Clifton Registration District     vol 6a, page 48
Muirhead, Elizabeth    (GRO Index has her at age 76)

Francis didn't simply "take" her name - she was baptised and registered with those names
And given them by her parents.

[rosie99]

Keen to understand the Jamaica connection for Frances Elizabeth Muirhead Robathan's god mother. If she was born in Jamaica was she the offspring of plantation owner or slave?

If she is the Elizabeth Muirhead/Muyrhead that KG has listed above then she was a Widow according to the 1851 census. (Age 66 bn Kingston, Jamaica)

Probate index has her with Effects under £300

[KGarrad]

May be a complete red-herring, but . . .

April 1 1825, Mr. Robert B. Muirhead, Receiver-General of Jamaica resigns, with a financial deficiency of £80,452.
http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/e/epapers01.htm

Full name: Robert Boyes Muirhead
It would appear that he was a trustee of the Presbyterian Institution of Kingston, Jamaica.