*COMPLETED* Biggleswade MIs lookup Please – 1868 Elizabeth Elstob

[Dryden]

Elizabeth Elstob died at Biggleswade in 1868.

If some kind person has access to the MI transcript’s for Biggleswade I'd be grateful for a look up please.

Many thanks in advance

[johnP-bedford]

Is this Elizabeth ELSTON, b 1796 Southill, wife of William who were living in Blunham on the 1861 census which is in Biggleswade Registration District.

OK the death index has her named ELSTOB !  aged 65 in Biggleswage RD

So I would suspect she's not buried in Biggleswade itself so their MI's aren't much use, she could be buried in Blunham though. I don't have the NBI to hand so cannot check at the moment. 

Regards
John

[bedfordshire boy]

Blunham only goes up to 1851 and Biggleswade 1855, although as John says, it probably wasn't at Biggleswade. There are nearly 30 parishes in Biggleswade Registration district, including Blunham.

[Dryden]

Thank you for your help; unfortunately it is the wrong one.

I am trying to track down Elizabeth Elstob nee Quenby who married Dryden Elstob in 1821 at Stepney.
She is listed in the 1851 census Dover Kent as a lodger with two of her son’s John A Elstob and Charles M Elstob. She is also  listed in the Deaths registered in Jul-Aug-Sep 1868. Elstob, Elizabeth, 65, Biggleswade, 3b 259.

[bedfordshire boy]

An Elizabeth Elstob death in Biggleswade registration district was registered in 1868. Whether it's your Elizabeth, another Elizabeth Elstob, or a transcription error for Elston, is yet to be determined. Probably easiest to order the death certificate.

Interesting that in 1851 there's an Elizabeth Elstob visitor 20 born London staying at the Crown Inn, High St, Biggleswade, with the Marsom family. See a BLARS catalogue item at http://blars.adlibsoft.com/wwwopac.exe?DATABASE=catalo%3Egroups&LANGUAGE=0&DEBUG=0&BRIEFADAPL=../web/adapls/wwwreq&DETAILADAPL=../web/adapls/wwwreq&%250=800001497&LIMIT=50 where presumably it's this Elizabeth Elstob who's mentioned, but for the life of me I can't work out her connection to the Marsom family, and indeed if she's connected to your Elizabeth Elstob. But it's an almighty coincidence that out of half a dozen Elizabeth Elstobs in England two of them should pitch up in Biggleswade, which is not exactly the centre of the universe, notwithstanding that johnP and I both went to skool there!

David

Might have worked out the Biggleswade Marsom/Elstob connection! John Elstob married Elizabeth Marsom on 12 Nov 1828 at St Bartholomew the Great London, where they baptised a daughter Elizabeth on 17 Oct 1830. This appears to be the 20 year old living with the Marsoms in 184151 (good spot John!) So what odds that the death in Biggleswade in 1868 was her mother, Elizabeth Elstob née Marsom, rather than Elizabeth Elstob née Quenby? An Elizabeth Marsom was baptised in Biggleswade in 1803

[johnP-bedford]

May have rushed in a bit quick yesterday ....

The William & Elizabeth couple at Blunham most likely have the name Elson or Ellson, as I have tracked them back to 1851 census (William's occupation bricklayer): & a William Ellson married Elizabeth Houghton at Blunham on 16/09/1821, and I've found their death index in 1866 & 1867

Sorry for confusion ..... 

[johnP-bedford]

OK David, you'll probably not believe this ... In my tree I have Elizabeth Marsom born 1803 daughter of William Marsom & Elizabeth Hine; linked to Partridges via the Hasledenes via Mantles.....

http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,450744.0.html

cheers John

[johnP-bedford]

David, The 20 year old Elizabeth living with the Marsoms was in 1851

Think I've tracked down the mother Elizabeth Elstob (transcribed as Elstab) on 1851 visiting  a family named Ludlow in Dulwich, Camberwell. She is aged 47 (but Anc* has her 67) born Biggleswade & has daughter Ann aged 16 born St Bartholomews Middlesex.

[bedfordshire boy]

OK David, you'll probably not believe this ...

I'll believe anything John! It's a very small world. I'd forgotten all about that lengthy thread a year ago (although I only came into it near the end, after all the hard work had been done!)

named Ludlow .......

That's even more unbelievable -  I used to have a girlfriend from Ludlow, back in 1965

David, The 20 year old Elizabeth living with the Marsoms was in 1851

Thanks John. I got it right when I first mentioned it but short term memory being what it is I got it wrong when I mentioned the date again. Duly amended.

I think that all things being considered, even without the 1868 death cert of Elizabeth Elstob, she's not the one Dryden is looking for.

Been an interesting thread though

David