Hi Dunelm, thanks for the post.
Yes since this last post, I found that the John [Grace] Woodbridge, 6yo in the 1841 Census with Jemima was not her son but the illegitimate son of her daughter Sarah, who was working elsewhere at Census time. It also threw that in John Grace Woodbridge's wedding to Emma Barlow, he lists his father as John Woodbridge, which would be his grandfather; his illegitimacy being the motivating factor here I suspect.
Q: I have not found the death of Jemima's husband, John Woodbridge; he's not in 1841 Census and listed as deceased in daughter Eliza's 1844 shipping records - any leads? Their son James's (b1825) burial is also missing so there maybe a gap in the parish registers or they may have been in another area.
Q: I have an 1841 marriage for Sarah Woodbridge to Joseph Abbott. Tracking them through the Censuses points at a death for her in 1864 and husband Joseph in 1867. Does that check out with your research?
Eliza: As you mentioned Eliza also had an illegitimate daughter Martha and was in the workhouse in 1841. In Feb 1844 Eliza married John Cantwell in OXF. In Aug 1844 the Cantwells emigrated to Sydney, Australia. In 1854 Martha married Thomas Lawrence, and in 1857 Step father John Cantwell died. Many family trees trace back the Cantwell bloodline not realising that Martha was not his daughter. The Lawrences propagated well in the Upper Hunter region and so is a very common name there. The Lawrences had a reunion many years ago and the family tree book was 4cm thick!
In 1858 Eliza remarried to Edmund Edwards. In 1878 Edmund died, and in 1879 Eliza died at 59yo. Martha was her only living child. Martha & Thomas Lawrence had 11 children, daughter Eliza the eldest was my ancestor.
Scott
