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Offline Malcolm Bull

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Joseph Bull of Huntingdon
« on: Wednesday 14 December 05 10:59 GMT (UK) »
Thanks to helpful research by other Rootchatters, I have learned that my gt-grandfather Joseph Bull was born in Huntingdon in 1841 and died in 1880.  In the 1881 census, his widow and family are living at Mutton Lane in Huntingdon.  Family stories related that he died ringing the church bells.  Can anyone who is familiar with Huntingdon suggest (a) which church this might have been [presumably one near to where Mutton Lane is/was] (b) where to go to find any truth behind the bell-ringing story.

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Malcolm Bull
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Huntingdon: Bull / Shelford
Rotherham: Andrews / Steel
Easingwold: Snowball / Potter

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Re: Joseph Bull of Huntingdon
« Reply #1 on: Wednesday 14 December 05 11:18 GMT (UK) »
The death cert might tell you...

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Re: Joseph Bull of Huntingdon
« Reply #2 on: Saturday 17 December 05 15:02 GMT (UK) »
NBI has his burial on 8 Oct 1880 age 39 at Huntingdon St Mary. St Mary's church is where I would start - hopefully he would have been buried at the church where he was a bellringer.

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Beds:   Cople: Luke/Spencer
            Everton: Hale
            Henlow: Cooper/Watts/Sabey/Rook
            Potton:  Merrill
            Southill: Faulkner/Litchfield/Sabey/Rook
            Woburn/Husborne Crawley: Surkitt
Hunts:   Gt Gransden: Merrill/Chandler/Medlock
            Toseland: Surkitt/Hedge/Corn         
Cambs: Bourn: Bowd
            Eltisley: Medlock
            Graveley: Ford/Revell

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Re: Joseph Bull of Huntingdon
« Reply #3 on: Saturday 17 December 05 18:27 GMT (UK) »
Thanks, David, now I know where to start.

Malcolm Bull
Surname interests:

Huntingdon: Bull / Shelford
Rotherham: Andrews / Steel
Easingwold: Snowball / Potter