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Re: Parents of Robert Herd
« Reply #9 on: Wednesday 18 July 18 20:34 BST (UK) »
Possible brother
George William Heard
January 1859
Grantham
mmn Towers
and his death
George William Herd
April 1859
Grantham
aged 0
buried 13th May 1859 in Grantham Cemetery

Potential death of mother?

HOURD, ELIZABETH        
age 37
Q3 1860 GRANTHAM  Volume 07A  Page 223

Burial date    05 Sep 1860
Burial place     New Somerby Cemetery Grantham
Abode    Little Gonerby  [place of birth of Robert on 1861]
Notes    Widow

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Re: Parents of Robert Herd
« Reply #10 on: Wednesday 18 July 18 20:35 BST (UK) »
Death of father?

George HOURD
Burial date    23 Feb 1859
Place    New Somerby Cemetery Grantham
Age    31
Burial person abode    Little Gonerby
Notes    Labourer

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Re: Parents of Robert Herd
« Reply #11 on: Wednesday 18 July 18 20:42 BST (UK) »
Thank you.....I had seen the two census returns for Robert.....on the 1871 census he is at Brant Broughton......not very far from Hough-on-the-Hill.....which is where his wife, if it is him, came from....I had seen the 1859 death for George Heard....but not the birth of a possible brother for Robert......most interesting......
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Re: Parents of Robert Herd
« Reply #12 on: Wednesday 18 July 18 20:47 BST (UK) »
Sister for Robert
Mary Ann Elizabeth Hord
March 1857
Grantham
mmn Towers
baptism as Hurd
22nd February 1857
Grantham St Wulfram
George & Elizabeth
George a labourer of Little Gonerby

1861 workhouse census gives Robert's birth place as Lt Gonerby


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Re: Parents of Robert Herd
« Reply #13 on: Wednesday 18 July 18 20:47 BST (UK) »
So, if Robert's parents died in 1859 and 1860 respectively, that could explain him being in the workhouse in 1861.....
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Re: Parents of Robert Herd
« Reply #14 on: Wednesday 18 July 18 20:49 BST (UK) »
And a possible sister for Robert......this just get's better...….
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Re: Parents of Robert Herd
« Reply #15 on: Thursday 19 July 18 17:13 BST (UK) »
Mmmhhh……..been working on this nearly all day, and still can't find any hard evidence that Robert Herd / Heard was born at Grantham, or that his mother was Elizabeth Towers......everything sort of fits, but no real proof...….
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Re: Parents of Robert Herd
« Reply #16 on: Thursday 19 July 18 22:24 BST (UK) »
Have you ruled out the one born in Portsea (reply 4)
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Re: Parents of Robert Herd
« Reply #17 on: Friday 20 July 18 04:01 BST (UK) »
No, not ruled anything out yet.....I was working on the assumption that Robert was born locally first, but can't find a birth for him, either in Grantham, or Little Gonerby, which back then was a separate parish.....although the census return for 1861 has a Robert Hourd being born there, in 1854, it might not be the right person......How do you know the one born at Portsea, had Towers as the mother ?
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