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Title: Drucilla / Drucella Hunt
Post by: Del 80 on Saturday 09 January 16 16:49 GMT (UK)
Looking for the marriage of Drucilla / Drucella Hunt, she was born Hough on the Hill abt.1843.......I believe that she married at Grantham in 1863, but can't find a spouse for her.......any help appreciated.......Del.
Title: Re: Drucilla / Drucella Hunt
Post by: Del 80 on Saturday 09 January 16 16:58 GMT (UK)
Correction......I THINK that her name is spelt Drusilla........
Title: Re: Drucilla / Drucella Hunt
Post by: jennifer c on Saturday 09 January 16 16:59 GMT (UK)
Family search gives groom as Thomas Bissell.

Jennifer
Title: Re: Drucilla / Drucella Hunt
Post by: Del 80 on Saturday 09 January 16 17:10 GMT (UK)
Thanks for that.......is that marriage at Grantham ?........Del.
Title: Re: Drucilla / Drucella Hunt
Post by: jennifer c on Saturday 09 January 16 17:11 GMT (UK)
Another possible John Allcock?

Jennifer
Title: Re: Drucilla / Drucella Hunt
Post by: jennifer c on Saturday 09 January 16 17:15 GMT (UK)
Bissell marriage Grantham.

Mar qtr 1863 Market Harborough Drusella Hunt and John Allcock.


Jennifer
Title: Re: Drucilla / Drucella Hunt
Post by: Del 80 on Saturday 09 January 16 17:19 GMT (UK)
Thank You.......my problem is I cannot find Drusilla on the 1871 census, thus I can't clarify who her husband is.......Del.
Title: Re: Drucilla / Drucella Hunt
Post by: jennifer c on Saturday 09 January 16 17:29 GMT (UK)
I can't find her either, what do you know about her?

Jennifer
Title: Re: Drucilla / Drucella Hunt
Post by: Del 80 on Saturday 09 January 16 17:37 GMT (UK)
All I know about her is that she was born 1843 at Hough on the Hill, Lincolnshire, to mother Eleanor Hunt......she appears on the 1851 and 1861 census....... I cannot find her after that..... there is a marriage at Grantham in 1863 for a Drusilla Hunt.......to either John Allcock or William Cheney.....but neither of those names lead anywhere...Del.
Title: Re: Drucilla / Drucella Hunt
Post by: Geoff-E on Saturday 09 January 16 19:13 GMT (UK)
The 1863 marriage leads only to Thomas BISSELL (no-one else on the page)

Marriages Mar 1863 
BISSEL    Thomas        Grantham    7a   539   
Bissell    Thomas        Grantham    7a   539    
HUNT    Drusella        Grantham    7a   539   
Hunt    Drusilla        Grantham    7a   539
Title: Re: Drucilla / Drucella Hunt
Post by: Del 80 on Saturday 09 January 16 20:45 GMT (UK)
Thanks for that Geoff........I still can't find her in 1871 though......Del.
Title: Re: Drucilla / Drucella Hunt
Post by: jennifer c on Saturday 09 January 16 23:20 GMT (UK)
William Cheney married the Martha.

Jennifer
Title: Re: Drucilla / Drucella Hunt
Post by: Del 80 on Sunday 10 January 16 10:48 GMT (UK)
Jennifer,  Thanks for that, I can't seem to find Drusilla in any census after 1861, so cannot confirm who her husband was, if any........she may not have married at all......I also cannot find a death for her.........Del...
Title: Re: Drucilla / Drucella Hunt
Post by: jennifer c on Sunday 10 January 16 14:04 GMT (UK)
I have spent hours looking at this and trying to make sense of it, I think -

Edward Hunt bapt. 25/9/1799 Aslackby son of Benjamin & Eleanor Hunt married Eleanor Parker 1/1/1824 - Edward died 10/1/1835.
Children
William 1826 - 1878
Mary 1828
Ann 1829
Elizabeth 1830 - 1846
Edward 1833 - 1860
Benjamin 1835 - 1898

1841 census
Eleanor 40
Ann 11
Elizabeth 10
Edward 8
Benjamin 6

Benjamin is born a month after the death of his father on 15/2/1835

Not sure Eleanor is Drusilla's mother as she was born after the death of Edward Hunt and she is getting on a bit.

Mary Hunt  born 1828 has at least 3 known illegitimate children and is on the 1861 census at Ellis Row Linc.

Mary Hunt single 33 chairwoman born Pointon Lincs
William 11 ( prob one shown as son with Eleanor in 1851) born Hough
Francis 8 Hough
Mary Jane 3 Grantham

Francis is on the 1891 census in Yorkshire with single sister Mary Jane Hunt as Francis Marshall widow.

Jennifer
Title: Re: Drucilla / Drucella Hunt
Post by: jennifer c on Sunday 10 January 16 14:08 GMT (UK)
Eleanor on the 1861 census is directly under the entry for son William Hunt and his family.

Jennifer
Title: Re: Drucilla / Drucella Hunt
Post by: jennifer c on Sunday 10 January 16 15:22 GMT (UK)
Perhaps the way forward would be to start with the birth certificate of Drusilla born 1843 Grantham.

Jennifer
Title: Re: Drucilla / Drucella Hunt
Post by: Treetotal on Sunday 10 January 16 15:51 GMT (UK)
Just a thought...I have a Lucilla Hunt from Oldern on Trent Parents from Garthorpe & Wintringham and she is sometimes listed as "Cilla" on census returns.
Carol
Title: Re: Drucilla / Drucella Hunt
Post by: Geoff-E on Sunday 10 January 16 15:52 GMT (UK)
Not sure Eleanor is Drusilla's mother as she was born after the death of Edward Hunt and she is getting on a bit.

Baptism register is a good place to look. :)

It says Drusilla is daughter of Eleanor HUNT , Widow (May 1st 1843)

http://www.lincstothepast.com/Records/RecordDisplayTranscript.aspx?oid=593981&iid=403413
Title: Re: Drucilla / Drucella Hunt
Post by: Geoff-E on Sunday 10 January 16 16:13 GMT (UK)
I see Thomas BISHELL at Caythorpe just a mile from Hough in 1861.

I see him at Caythorpe in 1881, apparently a widower.

See the Caythorpe burial register (top left) 17 Sept 1867, Drusilla BISHELL aged 24 - one of about a dozen villagers dying of "Fever" around that time. :(
http://www.lincstothepast.com/Records/RecordDisplayTranscript.aspx?oid=780172&iid=124304

I see an Elizabeth BISHELL (6) with her grandmother in 1871.  If she was Dru's daughter, I can't see a baptism.

Title: Re: Drucilla / Drucella Hunt
Post by: jennifer c on Sunday 10 January 16 16:43 GMT (UK)
Well done Geoff, now I can stop looking.

Jennifer :)
Title: Re: Drucilla / Drucella Hunt
Post by: jennifer c on Sunday 10 January 16 16:49 GMT (UK)
Hi Geoff trying looking for a baptism of an Eleanor Elizabeth not just Elizabeth, birth Reg 1864 and a birth and death of an Edward 1866.

Jennifer
Title: Re: Drucilla / Drucella Hunt
Post by: jennifer c on Sunday 10 January 16 17:19 GMT (UK)
Daughter may be Ellen Elizabeth who married a Harry King?

Jenn
Title: Re: Drucilla / Drucella Hunt
Post by: jennifer c on Sunday 10 January 16 17:20 GMT (UK)
Hi Geoff just noticed our number of posts made each  ;D

Jennifer