COLCHESTER MARRIAGE - PAGE 1784

[Irene Lilian Hunt]

Hi Clincher,  I have been travelling in Australia visiting my kids and their kids.  All in all husband and I have travelled 4500 kilometres in past two weeks.  Managed to look at a few emails during that period but have no idea if I contacted you via their computers.

After I unpack I will have a good look at where I am.

Regards, Irene

[suffolk*sue]

I don't know if this will put the spanner in the works.

1841 census

HO 107/325/11  -  Chelmsford
Workhouse of the Chelmsford Union.
Sch. 46, Page 8

Simon PAGE, aged 80yrs  -  ag lab  -  NOT BORN IN COUNTY

He is the only Simon Page of that age on the Essex index, so would think it must be him.


His burial entry in the parish registers may indicate where he died.


from
Sue

[Clincher]

Hallo Suepip, Speaking entirely for myself, I like all wot you 'ave writ but I like the capital letters best

[suffolk*sue]

OO eck Clincher
Do u fink I've dun it now.

Sue

[Clincher]

No I mean that is all good news to me.  The age tallies with everything we've been looking for, he was buried at Writtle and I can't find his baptism -so far- anywhere in Colchester. I was beginning to think that I had missed it
But it's for Irene to decide

Do you think she's still unpacking the Chardonnay?

[suffolk*sue]

If she is Clincher, she can send some down the wires.  Seriously though our Simon could have been born anywhere.


 

[Irene Lilian Hunt]

Hi Suepip & Clincher,

Well what a great piece of info Suepip!!    I agree with you Clincher that this must be him - age is right and seeing as there appears to be no other Simon Page's - other than his son - its got to be him.

This explains why you can't find his baptism Clincher!!

Would have been great if the old fellow had lived to 90 and then in 1851 it would have given us the info we need.  But then I suppose to live to 80 back then was no mean feat.

Have unpacked - and its Semillion Sauvignon Blanc that I'm into now - gone off Chardonnay!! 

Any suggestions as to where I might go from here?

Clincher I think that we floated the idea that Simon Page's wife Mary Page may have not been a Page but simply signed the marriage certificate with her married name but I have just looked at the certificate again and it definitely says (written by the minister) that she was Mary page.

What are your thoughts?

Cheers, Irene

[Irene Lilian Hunt]

Hi Clincher,  Had another look at the IGI for 1761 +- 2 years and only came up with two likely Simon's.

One of them 1759 (London) died in 1761 so that's not him.

The other one was baptised May 1762 so that's a possible, in Teversham, Cambridge which by my reckoning (on Microsoft Mappoint) is only 76 kilometres from Colchester - quite acceptable for the marriage in 1784.  Also the father's name was John Page which is the name of the first child found to date for Simon and Mary Page.  I was rather hoping that the mother's name was Diana (given that S & M named a daughter Diana) but unfortunately the mother's name was Catharin.  Turned out to be Catharin Harper when I located the marriage.  Had it been Diana I would have cracked open a bottle this early in the day!!

What do you think?

Cheers, Irene

[Clincher]

Hallo Irene, My first thought was to say let's go to the workhouse. I googled 'Chelmsford workhouse' and top of the pile is a splendid site* giving info and pics. But my heart sank when I read that the building built in 1838 had been almost completely destroyed by fire in 1880s which probably explains why (according to that site) the records consist of:
 
Essex Record Office, Chelmsford. Holdings include: Guardians' minutes (1835-1930); Ledgers (1835-1929); Admissions and discharges (1883-88, 1891-4, 1897-8, 1926-9); Indoor relief books (1886-1931); etc.

 But I'll have a look

*http://users.ox.ac.uk