Completed - Campton parish registers - RUSSELL/GREGORY

[chellemcg]

Hi,

If someone has access to these parish registers, I'd appreciate information on the following:

1. The marriage of William RUSSELL and Ann Mary GREGORY on 24th Sep 1775

      I'm looking for any reference to William's occupation, and any reference to where William and
      Ann are from.

2. The christening of their child, Martha RUSSELL, on 27 August 1776

      Again, hoping for any information on William's occupation

3. Possible burial of Martha on 16 October 1776



I'm trying to find evidence that William and Ann Mary moved to Potton, as I've got a William and a Hannah Maria Russell listed as strangers to the parish (Potton) for the christening of their child Sarah in 1777. The William in Potton was a fellmonger, and he and Hannah had a daughter called Martha in 1785.


Thanks in advance,
Michelle Bryant

[bedfordshire boy]

A2A shows a Removal Order as follows: William Russel, from Potton to Shefford  P70/13/3/6  3 April 1816.

Shefford was a township in Campton. The original is held at BLARS in Bedford

It looks on the face of it as though Shefford/Campton was his parish of legal settlement, they moved to Potton where he didn't establish settlement, and was removed back to Shefford, perhaps when he became a liability to Potton.

A Hannah Russel aged 58 was buried at Potton on 22 Nov 1808, and a William Russell aged 86 on 7 June 1820 in Campton

David

[johnP-bedford]

A2A shows a Removal Order as follows: William Russel, from Potton to Shefford  P70/13/3/6  3 April 1816.

The Bedfordshire Poor Law Papers index as published by the Beds FHS has this entry

William Russell of Shefford removed to Potton in 1816

John

[chellemcg]

Thanks very much for both of these replies.

This removal order would seem to confirm that the William Russell in Potton was originally from Shefford.

It seems strange that an 82 year old was sent back to Shefford, especially when he'd been in Potton for 39 years, and at least four of his children were living in Potton.

This may imply he did not have a good relationship with his children, as normally one of them would have taken him in, I think.


Thanks,
Michelle

[bedfordshire boy]

So which one is right? Was he removed from Potton to Shefford, or from Shefford to Potton? The fact that he was buried in Campton seems to imply that he was removed from Potton, but I'd need to see the Removal Order to be sure

David

[chellemcg]

I think he must have been removed from Potton to Shefford.


So, William married in Campton in 1775, and his first child was born around Campton in 1776.

When his next daughter Rebecca was born in 1777, he was living in Potton - his youngest child Mary was born in Potton in 1794, and his wife Hannah (Ann) died in 1808 in Potton.

This suggests that he had been living in Potton for some time, and was then removed back to Shefford.



Michelle

[Helen Bedford]

Thanks very much for both of these replies.

This removal order would seem to confirm that the William Russell in Potton was originally from Shefford.

It seems strange that an 82 year old was sent back to Shefford, especially when he'd been in Potton for 39 years, and at least four of his children were living in Potton.

This may imply he did not have a good relationship with his children, as normally one of them would have taken him in, I think.


Thanks,
Michelle

I suspect that William might have been living on his own in Potton as I found that his youngest daughter Mary was married in 1816 in Cardington to Joseph Sharman
Helen
Added: but son Jacob certainly was as he married twice in Potton, in 1811 and 1830...
So, pass!