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Hello meant to reply to your other post yesterday. Old montague is a tricky guy who i have been looking at for a while. I think he is my ancestor via his son Alfred. Its interesting you have an Israel in your family as my 2xgg is also Israel he is the son of Alfred. Israel is a very popular name in the family still.
I still have not yet pinned where Montague comes from, he has used different names. He is Joseph Loveridge for the registration of his son Stephen, he is Hooky Loveridge for the marriage of his daughter Lavinia to Napolean Waterfield and Henry Gray. Also he used the name Smith for the christening in 1856 of his first 3 kids, Alfred, Despairs and Lavina (savina).This was in Cambridgeshire where the family do seem to spend a lot of time in those early years. I have wandered if the Loveridge name was Elizabeth's his first "wife". It is possible i guess he took the Gray name from Margaret but then why is he using it in the 1871 census.
\I would like to know what happened to Elizabeth, he had 3 more girls with her after the 1871, Elizabeth who was bn in 1875 and died in 1878 and Priscilla who was bn in 1873 then councie lettie who was bn in 1878 she seems to have married Woodlock Smith and died in 1955.
By the 1881 Montague is with Margaret and they have Monty jnr. Priscilla and Councie are with there big brother Despairs and his partner Chrysane Smith in Cambridgeshire. So what happened in those 3 years, i can not work out where Elizabeth went. Did she die so he took up with Marg and the youngest 3, Stephen, Priscilla and Councie end up with Despairs.
By the way i have found some newspaper articles of Montague in Northants, he was mentioned in one with a Dozer Gray do you know who he might be.

she was disabled, she only had 1 leg and was elderly by then. she decided the night before to sleep in the lea of a hedge instead of walking on to the camp. Somehow she ended up in the ditch and was found the next day by a local man.

Hello. Would anyone who lives nr Stotfold be willing, able to visit for me and photograph a couple of plots. My 3 x great gran Margaret Parker is buried there. She is in the old section (c) plot 414. Also of her granddaughter Nellie Loveridge who is buried in the same section but plot 494a.
I would be very grateful if anyone can help.
Thanks so much Tracey

Hello. I wander if anyone might have some ideas which I could try next in my search for information on my 3xgg James loveridge. I have discovered via his death cert he died on 23rd April 1881 in the ampthill union workhouse of emphysema. I had contacted the beds records office and had some research done  but sadly the workhouse records have gone. So no help there. I wander where he might have been buried. Any suggestions as to where he could be.also I wander how they missed the census, if it was taken on the 3rd and he was so ill they can't have been far from the workhouse. Yet I have found no trace. They must be hiding very well up some very quite lane .James was bn in bucks in 1813, his partner was Peggy Parker and by then they had, Jane, elisha, fanny, Eliza, Lena, lemuel, Maria and Margaret.
Did the workhouse have a cemetery, was there one near by.any thoughts please. Tracey