I have hit something of a brick wall with a direct ancestor Arabella Fletcher who married Thomas Stanley (sometimes spelling of Standley) on 25 September 1804 in Pentrich. Arabella was the third wife of Thomas.
I have looked up baptisms in Pentrich and found the following:
1765 June 29 Arabella base D of Hannah Fletcher (presumably base means illegitimate)
1767 28 Sept Arabella Base D of Hannah Fletcher
However, in between these dates is a Pentrich burial for an Arabella Fletcher on 26 August 1765.
I am assuming that the child baptised in 1765 died and was buried in 1765 and Hannah Fletcher had another daughter with the same name baptised in 1767. Of course in family history sometimes these assumptions can be quite wrong!
However, I cannot pinpoint Hannah Fletcher. I believe there were a number of women with the name Hannah Fletcher in Pentrich at that time.
Has anyone got more information on Hannah Fletcher and daughter Arabella?
Thank you to anyone who can supply more information on the Fletcher family of Pentrich.
marp
Yes, 'base' would mean illegitimate.
It does look as if the first child Arabella died in Aug 1765, and then Hannah had another daughter a couple of years later, and gave her the same name.
I have many instances where a child died, and that name was then used for a later child.
It would seem that name was very important to her to use it again.
Perhaps it was the name of her mother, or a favourite sister.
Interesting too that she had stayed in the same place by the birth of the second child.
Have you looked at the families of the Hannah Fletchers you say were around in Pentrich at that time to see if there any other mentions of an Arabella?
Have you looked for any wills for 'Fletcher' around Pentrich around about the right time?