Suggestions and/or look-ups to find a burial of John Whitehouse, probably mid to late 1830s and probably in Loughborough, would be very welcome. I am unfamiliar with Leicestershire genealogy and live about 150 miles from Loughborough. I have recorded many, many years ago that I checked Loughborough All Saints for a burial, without finding one, but I am beginning to doubt the accuracy of that negative finding. It's so easy to trawl a film and miss something through inattention. Below, I tell the story as best I can so far.
John Whitehouse, a metal plater in Birmingham, born about 1787, removed to Loughborough with his wife Sarah and family in 1824-25. The book "Nottingham Lace 1760s-1950s" by Sheila A. Mason (author & publisher), Ilkeston 1994, revised ed. 2010, contains a section on Loughborough Lace Makers at pp 319-320. Included in the list of Lace Makers is "John Whitehouse 1829 (2 twist machines), 1835 ..." Leicestershire Archives reported that they checked the Loughborough section of Pigot's Directory and found John Whitehouse of Regent St. under Manufacturers of Twist Lace in the 1831 & 1835 directories, but that he is not in the 1828/29 or 1830 ones. The Directory would not necessarily be up to date as of the year of publication, so it can be reasonably supposed that John was alive in Loughborough in 1834. It is not known when or where he died, but by the 1841 census of Carrington, Nottingham, Sarah was widowed. All GRO entries from 1st July 1837 to the end of 1841, in the name John Whitehouse, with or without a second forename, show deaths in other places than Leicestershire, Nottinghamshire or even Derbyshire. Mostly they are in the West Midlands where the surname has a strong regional bias.
John was baptised in 1787 at Wednesbury parish church as John Negus Whitehouse, being the son of Richard Whitehouse and Sarah Negus and probably born in the same year, but the middle name "Negus" has appeared nowhere else. Two of his older children married in the 1830s, Elisheba at Loughborough All Saints in 1833 and Elizabeth at Nottingham St Peter in 1832. His other children married after the aforesaid 1841 census, in the Nottingham area. Of his younger children, Sarah Ann Whitehouse was baptised 25 July 1825 at Loughborough All Saints, thus underpinning John's time of arrival in Loughborough to 1824-25 (probably), Emma was born 1827-28, no baptism found for her, place of birth unknown and Edwin (otherwise Edward) born 1830-31 in Loughborough, no baptism found for him. Both Edwin & Emma, for whom no baptisms were found, are on the aforesaid 1841 census where they were supposedly born in Nottinghamshire, while daughter Sarah and the children older than her were not. I have included this much detail to give a fuller picture and prevent anyone from wasting their valuable time telling me things that I already know.
I have been so impressed by the Leicestershire look-up pages that I have put on my "humble suit" to ask for help, please.
Keith
