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Phoebe Morson - please help?
« on: Thursday 15 December 16 22:57 GMT (UK) »
The mysterious case of Phoebe Morson. I can't find her anywhere.

According to her 1742 marriage to John Wright (in Lyddington, Rutland) she's from Cottingham. I presume she was born around 1720 since her last child was born in 1758.

I tried the Family History Society and they couldn't find her in their records. Living in Oz I can't get to the Northamptonshire Archives so I'm unsure if there's anything available there.

I'm hoping someone has the ability to please help me find her :)

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Re: Phoebe Morson - please help?
« Reply #1 on: Friday 16 December 16 09:31 GMT (UK) »
Hi kelzies.

Welcome to Rootschat.  :)

There is no mention of a baptism in the Northants Indexes for Phoebe.

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Re: Phoebe Morson - please help?
« Reply #2 on: Friday 16 December 16 21:49 GMT (UK) »
Hi Sandy :) Thank you!

And thank you for having a look - could she have married a Morson who died pre-1742? I was thinking about that earlier. I haven't seen the original record of the marriage (only a list on a disk) so for all I know she could be a widow. That could explain her absence. They may not have put that in :-\

Kellie.

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Re: Phoebe Morson - please help?
« Reply #3 on: Friday 16 December 16 21:53 GMT (UK) »
She was from Cottingham at the time of her marriage.  That doesn't mean she was born there, just that she had lived there at least 3 weeks whilst the banns were being called (assuming marriage was by banns and not licence). She could have been born anywhere!
Edmonds/Edmunds - mainly Sussex
DeBoo - London
Green - Suffolk
Parker - Sussex
Kemp - Essex
Farrington - Essex
Boniface - West Sussex

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Re: Phoebe Morson - please help?
« Reply #4 on: Friday 16 December 16 21:55 GMT (UK) »
This might be worth looking into ...

Thomas Mawson of Wilbarston mason = Phebe Hayes otp 1706 Dec 26 Rothwell
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Re: Phoebe Morson - please help?
« Reply #5 on: Friday 16 December 16 22:01 GMT (UK) »
Per opening post - last child was born 1758 so unlikely to be that Phebe.  However - could be her parents marriage
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Re: Phoebe Morson - please help?
« Reply #6 on: Friday 16 December 16 22:07 GMT (UK) »
True Lizdb, she could've! I've tried looking at the whole of the UK - no Phoebe Morson anywhere. Argh! At least Northamptonshire is a starting point. I heard there was a town near Cottingham that a lot of Morsons came from...

sugarbakers - thank you for that marriage! Maybe that's her parents.

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Re: Phoebe Morson - please help?
« Reply #7 on: Friday 16 December 16 22:13 GMT (UK) »
I've tried looking at the whole of the UK -

Presumably just what is online! Rather than trawling through every parish record for every parish  :o :)
Edmonds/Edmunds - mainly Sussex
DeBoo - London
Green - Suffolk
Parker - Sussex
Kemp - Essex
Farrington - Essex
Boniface - West Sussex

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Re: Phoebe Morson - please help?
« Reply #8 on: Friday 16 December 16 22:21 GMT (UK) »
I've tried looking at the whole of the UK -

Presumably just what is online! Rather than trawling through every parish record for every parish  :o :)

OK, maybe I should say every website I could think of ;) Ancestry, FindMyPast, TheGenealogist, FreeReg, FamilySearch... and I bought Alan Clarke's Northamptonshire birth and baptism index for 1700-1750 as well!