On 2 October
Jonathan Benson my 4 x g.g.uncle married Betty Ottley at St Mary’s Parish Church, Ulverston, Lancashire in 1780
Elisabeth Middleton (nee Benson) my 4 x g.grandmother was born in Wigton, Cumberland in 1781. She married aged 19 and had 12 children, 3 of whom died whilst still less than 5 years of age. Despite having the same name, Benson, as Jonathan above, I’ve yet to find a direct link between the two families. My Legacy relationship calculator tells me that Elisabeth is Jonathan’s great nephew’s wife’s grandmother!
Charles Dawson my husband’s 2 x g.grandfather was born in Pilkington, Lancashire in 1815
Frederick Pemberton Hobson my g.uncle was baptised at The Albert Memorial Church, Collyhurst in 1881. He was my maternal grandmother’s brother and it was by finding his, and another siblings baptism that helped me to find my gran’s baptism. I searched the parish records of the Albert Memorial Church for baptisms around the time she was born, and found despite the fact that she was female and called Mary Hannah, the parish clerk had written her name down as Seth! No wonder I hadn’t been able to find her previously. Seth was, of course, their father’s name.
Elizabeth (Betsy) Pemberton (nee Woodward) died at Blake Lees, Kingsley, Frodsham, Cheshire in 1869. The cause of her death was cancer of the throat 9 months duration. She was 56 years old. She was a widow and left 11 children, the youngest was 15. Amazingly for the time, all the 11 children lived to be adults, all but one marrying and having families of their own. The one who didn’t marry died aged 23, from Rheumatic Fever and Inflammation of Kidneys for 2 days, 11 months before his mother’s death.