Isabella Wardropper, Durham, England

[DeeDutch]

Hi, I am trying to fathom out discrepancies I have encountered with regard to my 2 x great grandmother Isabella Wardropper (1855 - 1890). Following up, and verifying, various leads on different websites I believed that her parents were John Wardropper and Margaret Rattery. However, I have now seen her original marriage certificate to Jeremiah Clish on 8 June 1872, at a register Office in the Houghton-le-Spring district, which lists her father as James Wardropper an agricultural labourer from Easington Lane, who was deceased at the time of Isabella's marriage. John Wardropper was an engine man on steamboats, lived in Sunderland and was alive at the time of Isabella's marriage.
Thus there at three discrepancies: the first name, the place, the occupation and whether or not Isabella's father was alive when she married. While I have been able to find a lot of information about John, I have not found information about James - I have checked the GRO Index and cannot find a James Wardropper who died in the period just before Isabella was born and the time she married. Can anyone help me solve this conundrum? Regards, DeeDutch

[amondg]

From the census 1881 Isabella states born Newcastle upon Tyne

GRO Birth registrations
Wardropper, Isabella 1854 mother's maiden name Dean

Wardropper, Isabella 1855 mother's maiden name Dodds

[CaroleW]

There are 2  x 1855 births for an Isabella Wardropper.  One in Durham mmn Rattrey which you mention & one in Newcastle mmn Dodds

There is a John Wardropper marriage in 1837 to a Margaret Rattery which would mean Isabella was born 18yrs after the marriage

In 1861 there is a 5yr old daughter Isabella but although John is shown as married - Margaret is not present.  John is an engine driver

Was she only 17 when she married?

[CaroleW]

Isabella Wardropper christened 13.8.1855 Newcastle parents Ralph & Elizabeth

Ralph & Elizabeth nee Dodds married 1854 Newcastle

[CaroleW]

Isabella Clish was 27 in 1881 & died 1890 aged 37

[AlanBoyd]

Isabella Wardropper christened 13.8.1855 Newcastle parents Ralph & Elizabeth

Ralph & Elizabeth nee Dodds married 1854 Newcastle

Ralph Wardropper is recorded as a boiler smith and ‘of Hanover Street’ at the baptism (DRO).

[AlanBoyd]

No idea if this is relevant, probably not,  but:

21 February 1857: Newcastle Journal

DEATHS
...
At North Shields, in Milburn Place, on the 13th inst. aged 70, Mr. James Wardropper, engineer; and on the 18th Inst.aged 82, Mary, wife of the above.
...

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Using the GRO Index

Other children of Wardropper /Dean  registered Newcastle Upon Tyne

Thomas Dean Wardropper 1840  died 1840
Barbara  1841  died 1842
?
Barbara  1847
Thomas 1849
John James 1851
Isabella 1854

Using the census 1851 the parents are Thomas Wardropper and Barbara nee Dean  married St  John's Newcastle Upon Tyne 1836.

[amondg]

I could not find any others re Wardropper/ Dodds just Isabella 1855