Hi,
Can anyone add more and maybe provide a conclusion. Thank You.
I would like to give Great Thanks to Mckha489 for the time and effort in putting this together for me.
I would appreciate some more eyes on this family. There is a name change as outlined below (I am sorry there is a lot of information, but don’t want to leave anything out)
A - are the conclusions drawn here correct? and
B. WHY did the BENNISON children decide to change to BRUCE when they were registered and known as BENNISON at least until 1861 but some until after 1871?
Fanny HEBB married Robert BRUCE 11 Dec 1836 at Hull
They had a son Robert baptised 12 June 1837 at St Mary & St Nicholas, Beverley, York son of Frances BRUCE a widow.
Robert BRUCE senior (age 20) had died in February 1837 and was buried St John’s Beverley 12 Feb 1837. Of Lairgate
1841
William BENNISON - 30
Fanny BRUCE -20
John BRUCE 5 **
Robert BRUCE 4 ***
Elizabeth BRUCE 6 months (she is in GRO as BENNISON Elizabeth Bruce 1840, D Quarter, Beverley Union, Vol 23 page 8 MMN HEBB)
there is no marriage for Fanny BRUCE to William BENNISON
1851
William BENNISON 45
Fanny BENNISON 35 (wife)
John BRUCE 16 son-in-law (= stepson)
Robert BRUCE 14 son-in-law (= stepson)
Elizabeth BENNISON 10 daughter
William BENNISON 7 son
James BENNISON 5 son
Thomas BENNISON 3 son
Hannah BENNISON 6mths daughter (these 5 children are all in the GRO as BENNISON, MMN HEBB
Rosa BENNISON 68 mother, widow of John BENNISON, mariner
1861
William BENNISON 55
Fanny BENNISON 45 Wife
Elizabeth BENNISON 20 daughter
William BENNISON 17 son
James BENNISON 15 son
Thomas BENNISON 13 son
Hannah BENNISON 10 daughter
Henry BENNISON 8 son
George BENNISON 5 son these last two also in GRO as BENNISON MMN HEBB
Now, suddenly the BRUCE surname reappears
1864
Elizabeth BRUCE 24, of Keldgate Father, William BRUCE married James LYON , 19, a collier. witness Hannay MAYHAM and Robert TOWSE
1868
Sept 11, 1868, Hannah BRUCE of Friars Lane was buried
And yet in 1871 we have
1871
William, Fanny, Tom, Harry and George BENNISON are all at Friars Lane, Beverley St Martin
while James, BRUCE a joiner, is a boarder in the household of Benjamin LOFT a joiner
William junior b 1844 I cannot see in the 1871 census but on 21 June 1871 a William BRUCE (father William BRUCE) married Caroline WILKINSON (yorkshire marriages FindMyPast) witnesses John TUTING and Eliza TUTING
1874
Henry BRUCE married March 8th 1874, labourer of Friars Lane, (see 1871 census) father William BRUCE to Alice GRIFFIN
witnesses Charles GRIFFIN and Mary FOSTER
George BRUCE married 27 Dec 1874 gardener of Friars Lane father William to Eliza Ann STIMPSON. witnesses Mary Ann & R…STIMPSON
1875
James BRUCE, joiner (father William BRUCE) married 25 Dec 1875 to Annie Elizabeth MALTON
witnesses Margaret SAXBY and John TUTING
1876
Beverley and East Riding Recorder 05 August 1876
William BENNISON of Friars Lane - up for not paying his rates of 13s 3d
1881
Mar 5 1881 William BENNISON of Dog and Duck Lane buried age 79
Census 1881 at Dog and Duck Lane in “Old Oak Tree Gatehouse” are George BRUCE his wife Eliza BRUCE 3 children, his mother Frances BRUCE and his unmarried brother Thomas BRUCE
Thereafter everyone keeps their name as BRUCE. Except for John who reverted to HEBB **
Fanny is buried as Frances BRUCE of Dog & Duck Lane 14 Jan 1889
**
John BRUCE was obviously born before Fanny’s marriage to Robert BRUCE baptised as John HEBB North Frodingham 6 Sep 1835, mother Frances HEBB, no father named and noted as illegitimate. He marries in 1859 under the name of HEBB which he keeps thereafter (But says his father is William HEBB a mariner)
***
Robert BRUCE married in 1860 and of course is also BRUCE.
Once again thank you for taking your time in reading this, any help to solve the puzzle will be
greatly appreciated.