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Title: completed with thanks Hit a brick wall - Elizabeth BREAKINGBURY
Post by: whdsn on Thursday 16 April 09 20:02 BST (UK)

hi
   I'm doing a family tree on my wife's side and hit a brick wall. on the 1881 census i found this record. ELIZABETH BREAKINGBURY ( windower) 1855 downton wiltshire. she had 3 sons called
  JOHN T 1875 Devon. FRED 1877 hertfordshire and JAMES 1879 andover. i can't find a marriage or death record for BREAKINGBURY. thank you

Title: Re: HIT A BRICK WALL
Post by: groom on Thursday 16 April 09 20:24 BST (UK)

There is a marriage for an Elizabeth Breakingbury 4th quarter 1881 Andover Hampshire Wiltshire 
2C 447.
Possible husbands John Hopgood or James Richardson. Could she have remarried after the death of her first husband?

Jan

Title: Re: HIT A BRICK WALL
Post by: whdsn on Thursday 16 April 09 20:37 BST (UK)

hi jan
          yes she married james richardson. wayne

Title: Re: HIT A BRICK WALL
Post by: groom on Thursday 16 April 09 20:43 BST (UK)

Does that mean you are looking for the death of her first husband? Only 3 on Ancestry and none of them fit!
Jan

Title: Re: HIT A BRICK WALL
Post by: whdsn on Thursday 16 April 09 20:46 BST (UK)

hi jan
         yes marriage or death of her first husband. wayne

Title: Re: HIT A BRICK WALL
Post by: groom on Thursday 16 April 09 21:06 BST (UK)

I've looked on FindMyPast from 1878 to 1881, and cant see any Breakingburys. The only one near it is Henry Breakenbury aged 71 Aylsham second quarter 1881 4B 56, which doesn't look likely.

Perhaps she told a little white lie and wasn't married! Have you sent for her marriage certificate to James as this will probably give her maiden name as well as Breakingbury and her father's name and you may be able to find her first marriage that way.

Good luck

Jan

Title: Re: HIT A BRICK WALL
Post by: whdsn on Thursday 16 April 09 21:12 BST (UK)

thanks jan
                   looks like i have to send away for the marriage certificate wayne

Title: Re: HIT A BRICK WALL
Post by: groom on Thursday 16 April 09 21:34 BST (UK)

I cant see any Breakingbury marriages beween 1870 and 1876 on FindMyPast either. It's a very uncommon name!

I'll be interested to hear if you come up with anything.

Jan

Title: Re: HIT A BRICK WALL
Post by: Little Nell on Thursday 16 April 09 21:41 BST (UK)

May I suggest that you also consider Brackenbury/Brackenberry/Brakenbury etc.

Have you looked under those names at all?

Nell

Title: Re: HIT A BRICK WALL
Post by: Gaie on Thursday 16 April 09 21:48 BST (UK)

Hi

Did you see James Richardson lodging with Elizabeth and sons in the 1881 census?

It might be worth getting one of Elizabeth's sons' birth certificates to see who was named as their father.

John Thomas BREAKINGBURY March Qtr 1875 Wimborne Vol 5a Page 281 (census says Devonshire!)

James BREAKINGBURY March Qtr 1879 Andover Vol 2c Page 231

I can't see one for Fred  :-\

Kind regards
Gaie

Title: Re: Hit a brick wall - Elizabeth BREAKINGBURY
Post by: kanskar on Thursday 16 April 09 21:55 BST (UK)

Fred's is: -  Fred Brakenbury Edmonton 3a-283 Mar 1877 Qtr

Title: Re: Hit a brick wall - Elizabeth BREAKINGBURY
Post by: MEGGYMOO on Tuesday 30 June 09 21:30 BST (UK)

Hi
Are you looking for Elizabeth Breakingbury nee Coole?
If this is the one she married Thomas Breakingbury 6/4/1874 in north Walsham.

She went on to marry James Richardson.

Title: Re: Hit a brick wall - Elizabeth BREAKINGBURY
Post by: kanskar on Tuesday 30 June 09 22:34 BST (UK)

Found the marriage mentioned above on Freebmd - but not North Walsham.

Thomas Brakenberry - Elizabeth Cook/Coote
HASTINGS 2b-36
Jun 1874 Qtr

Title: Re: Hit a brick wall - Elizabeth BREAKINGBURY
Post by: kanskar on Tuesday 30 June 09 22:39 BST (UK)

Thomas's death does tie with North Walsham.

From Freebmd:

Thomas Brackenbury- aged 28
ERPINGHAM (which included N.Walsham at that time) 4b-34
Jun 1880 Qtr

Title: Re: Hit a brick wall - Elizabeth BREAKINGBURY
Post by: kanskar on Tuesday 30 June 09 22:43 BST (UK)

Finally Elizabeth's Birth Reg:

From Freebmd:
Elizabeth Coole - ALDERBURY - 5a 187 - Jun 1855 Qtr

Title: Re: Hit a brick wall - Elizabeth BREAKINGBURY
Post by: MEGGYMOO on Tuesday 30 June 09 23:08 BST (UK)

Sorry forgot to say Thomas Breakingbury was spelt Brackenbury.
His mother couldn't read or write.

This Thomas Brackenbury was my great great grandfather.

Title: Re: completed with thanks Hit a brick wall - Elizabeth BREAKINGBURY
Post by: Pabbyab on Tuesday 01 December 09 21:13 GMT (UK)

He was my Great Great Grandfather too!!!!!!