Hannah Carr - can anyone help?

[wugga2010]

Thanks everyone for such a warm welcome and many thanks for giving up your time on a Sunday morning to help me!

I think the Robert baptised in Blackburn in 1868 must be the correct one given his fathers occupation is listed as stone mason.

I'd also wondered about Robert (senior) already being married given the age difference or if he and Hannah were not married at all. It seems as though they were living in lots of different locations due to his work so I guess it would be easy to get away with either of these scenarios!

I'd also noticed the marriage with Hannah Hope but unfortunately I don't think its correct as I know Robert's father was John Copland.

I'd really hoped to find details of their marriage so I could find the name of Hannah's father and help me make some progress seeing as its proving quite difficult to pin down her birth details.

[heywood]

Just to add that the Hepworth Copeland are in 1871 as Coupland so definitely not the same family.

[heywood]

Have you tried to see if there are any Workhouse records?

http://www.workhouses.org.uk/Belper/#Records

[Mabel Bagshawe]

the workhouse inmate does look promising

I maybe jumping to conclusions but there's a Hannah Catherine Carr b c1829 Mugginton working as a servant in Belper in 1851. She marries in 1859 - but young Hannah is not with her on 1861

[Daisypetal]

Hi,

Welcome to RootsChat


I've found a possible entry for Hannah CARR in 1861,


1861  RG09/2509  f.33  p.19  Belper,  Derbyshire
Union Workhouse

H  C    Inmate    Un    Female    16    House Servant     Derbyshire Belper



The Derbyshire Record Office seem to have records about the Belper Workhouse,

http://www.rootschat.com/links/01lrz/

I think you will have to contact them about searching the records,

https://www.derbyshire.gov.uk/leisure/record_office/default.asp


Regards,
Daisy

[wugga2010]

Thanks everyone for your help.

I think that having a look at the workhouse records is definitely the way to go. Hopefully they'll have some admission records which might state Hannah's parents names.

I've also noticed a family in Belper headed by Lawrence and Harriet Carr with children being born between the mid 1820s and the 1840s. Quite a few of them including Lawrence and Harriet and an unmarried daughter in her 20s all die before 1851. If Hannah was from this family it might explain why no one was able to look after her and she was put in the workhouse. But I'm only guessing!