sisters Elizabeth & Elizabeth HAMPSON

[plimmerian]

baptisms found:

Baptism: 4 Oct 1829 St Paul Independent Chapel, Hindley, Lancashire, England
Elizabeth Hampson - [Child] of John Hampson & Betty (formerly Plimmer)
    Born: 4 Sep 1829
    Abode: Wigan Parish Hindley
    Occupation: Weaver
    Baptised by: W. Turner
    Source: LDS Film 560882

Baptism: 10 Apr 1836 St Paul Independent Chapel, Hindley, Lancashire, England
Elizabeth Hampson - [Child] of John Hampson & Elizabeth (formerly Plimmer)
    Born: 23 Jan 1836
    Abode: Wigan Parish Hindley
    Occupation: Weaver
    Parents Signed: Both parents X
    Baptised by: Wm. Howe
    Source: LDS Film 560882

BUT:
1829 Elizabeth is living with her parents, siblings and Uncle Plimmer in the 1841 census

AND:
1836 Elizabeth is living with (?sisters/cousins?) Mary 15 years and Anne 10 years in the 1841 census!

I believe:
1829 Elizabeth married John GERRARD in 1848 and then John HUNTER in 1857.
She was buried in Hindley cemetery in 1890 aged 60 years in the "non-conformist" section.

BUT:
1836 Elizabeth disappears after 1841.

Puzzled as to why two daughters have the same first name but are not living in the same household in 1841 - was the 1836 Elizabeth actually a relation's child and not the daughter of said parents?

 

[Maiden Stone]

Occasionally 2 surviving children in a family had same name. One theory is that the elder child was sickly and not expected to live when the baby was born. My GGM, Elizabeth had a younger sister Elizabeth. My GGF, John, had a younger half-brother John.

[plimmerian]

thanks for that - first time I have discovered such an event - best wishes!

[lancsann]

I wonder if Elizabeth 1836 should actually have been John and the vicar wrote the wrong name. I can't find a baptism for the John c1836/37 should in 1841.

[plimmerian]

Thank you for your post - I suppose it could be possible! 

[Aulus]

I have several instances where a child dies and a later child is given the same name, and the parents then seem to confuse which one has survived, as the younger child sometimes has the older one's age/birth-year.  Sometimes this continues even after the parents have died, with the child presumably having got used to being told the wrong birth-year.

[Radcliff]

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