Elizabeth Snowden

[Finley 1]

Hello

I am tidying up loose ends and attempting to fill in areas that are blank ---

I have Elizabeth Snowden
my 4th gg on my Mothers - Paternal side.

she was born circa 1780  as on 1841 she is 61 and dies in 1847 @ 67 I have the cert for that.

OK  I have her marriage to Thomas Norris 1798 - St Martin Leicester.

What I cannot find is her birth anywhere........  

Thomas was actually Baptised in the same little Church that I was Baptised in St Peters Braunstone.. which is a lovely find for me.

But all I have for Elizabeth -- is that she was possibly born on a barge    as Thomas was a Higgler.... so he probably found her by the wayside   who knows..  and they did live close to the Canal at one point.


any help would be great.. I am not as good a researcher as in the old days.. but still have a go now and then.

take care

xin / Finley

[Annie65115]

I see her marriage cert online; someone wasn't 100% clear on her surname at the time, it looks as though it was written "Snowding" but has either two corrections or two inkblots on it.

Her name was written by the vicar as "Eliz"and she signed "Elisa Snodin".

Witnesses Mary Snodin and James Collins.

This might give a couple more clues.

There was  George and Lucy of this surname who baptised daughters Mary (1778) and Elizabeth (1786) in Stapleford, Leicestershire; obviously if Elizabeth was a baby at the time she wouldn't have married just 12 years later but there's no way of knowing the ages of these children at baptism. Other children of this couple were John, William, Eleanor, George and Robert. I don't suppose that Elizabeth and Thomas gave their children any names that might suggest a family link?

George S (the father) was a grazier and left a will which mentions all his surviving children including Elizabeth. It's dated 1807 but it doesn't say whether any of his daughters were married then.

[Annie65115]

Oh,shame -- looks like we have to scrap that idea - Elizabeth Snodin married in Stapleford in 1816.

[Finley 1]

For a minute there    Thanks for info Annie  xx all very interesting...

I had hoped for a Will  and still looking

where theres a will   

xin

[Finley 1]

Just gone over this lady yet again ---

and no fresh info ... that I can find  

So I have put her as being born on a Barge somewhere    easiest option

shame but too many years spent searching... 

xin