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I'm using a Mac, so I can't use the discs issued by Nottm FHS. But if someone could check this death for me, please, & see if an age is given, it would help me to decide whether this is the person I'm looking for.

Betsy Bradley died December quarter 1842 in Nottingham.

Thank you very much

Thank you both very much. I emailed Doncaster FHS at the end of last week. I haven't got any other connections up there & this is only a "possible", so it's not worth joining, but I thought that they might have a member with an interest in the same family & I offered to pay if they put is in touch/if they could help me at all, so maybe they'll come back with something. It looks as though I could very well have an Elizabeth Bradley born about that time, who ended up in the East Midlands. I can't find a marriage for the man who might have been her partner...he was living with someone else by the time of the 1841 census (again, no marriage), so it's all pretty difficult.

I've found this baptism on Family Search

Elizabeth Bradley baptised on 20 Feb 1800 at Whitgift....parents Thomas & Jane Bradley.

Two or three people also have family trees for her on Ancestry, but there's no more information, other than that her father was born in 1757 & her mother was Jane Moody., born in 1767...no marriage or death (no deaths for the parents either).

I've tried to find out what happened to her myself, but I can't find a death or a marriage that matches (eg an Elizabeth Bradley to a Thomas Selby at Doncaster in 1824 or to a Joeseph Davis in Heanor, Derbys in 1824, or to a Mr Maynard in Mansfield, Notts, in 18259

All help gratefully received

Thanks for your reply, Sunflower. Actually, I don't know if this Samuel Elliott, or any other Samuel Elliott born around this time, is anything to do with me & I think I may be going in too wide a circle. There's another thread where someone is asking about Merrins. We've already corresponded & established that our Merrins were the same family & I think she's now looking at another Merrin family to see if/how they are related (one of them became famous & a member of my family always said we were related to them).

My connection with the Merrins is that an Elizabeth Merrin married my g grandfather, a Samuel Elliott, in Nottingham. This Samuel, Elliott, however, was born in Somerset & arrived in Nottingham sometime between the 1881 & 1891 census. (the decline in the Somerset lace trade. He was a lace worker) I just thought it was a great coincidence that the Merrins had a Samuel Elliott, aged 15, living with them on the 1841 census (my Samuel Elliott was definitely in Somerset then), so wondered if these Nottingham Elliotts & my Somerset Elliotts were related.

They may have been or it may be pure coincidence but I think I'd better leave it for later as I don't have time to pursue it further at the moment