Please can someone have a look at the enclosed facts and tell me what I’m missing.
I have William de Redder 1814-1881 marrying Elizabeth Herron 1820-1891.
They have sixteen children including two sets of twins, most died very young.
Like a lot of people, at that time, when a child died, they named another child with the same name. (They had four sons named William)
So far so good!
I found one daughter Elizabeth Maria 1846 -1849, and another Elizabeth Maria 1849-1855.
I sent off for both death certificates.
The first Elizabeth Maria died 24 Jan 1849. Aged 3 years. She died of croupe (certified) (I think that was diphtheria) and the death was registered by Christiana Hills (Present at the death) This could have been a nurse as she died of a contagious disease in South Shields Union.
She is described as the daughter of William de Redder Master Mariner
The second Elizabeth Maria died 2 Jan 1855 aged 5 Years, in Castleacre, Norfolk. She died of Diseased spleen of long standing and bleeding from the stomach. (Certified) She was described as the daughter of William de Redder, Captain of a collier
The death was registered by Mary Drew, present at the death. (Mary Drew was the children’s grandmother).
I thought this was sorted until I was contacted on Ancestry by someone who says he is descended from the second Elizabeth Maria.
I’ve tried to find another birth of an Elizabeth Maria de Redder with as many variations of her surname I can think of, without success.
The ‘second’ Elizabeth Maria married Henry Johnson in 1873 in South Shields. It was a double wedding, as her brother William Anthony married Henry’s sister, Margaret.
I don't understand how she can be married in 1873 when she died in 1855.
Please can someone look at this with fresh eyes and tell me what I’m missing.
Many thanks
