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Title: Jane Shell
Post by: Brendath on Sunday 10 July 11 17:10 BST (UK)
Looking for any info. on Jane Shell Born around 1823 on Holy Island Northumberland. She married a William Trotter in the 1840's
Title: Re: Jane Shell
Post by: sillgen on Sunday 10 July 11 17:22 BST (UK)
Hello and welcome to rootschat
Can you tell us a bit more about Jane?    Have you found her on a census?   What children did they have?   I cannot see her marriage on freebmd.  Could it have been in Scotland?
Regards
Andrea
Title: Re: Jane Shell
Post by: 2zpool on Sunday 10 July 11 17:31 BST (UK)
Have a few Shell baptisms in Holy Island but no Jane Shell

Janis
Title: Re: Jane Shell
Post by: sillgen on Sunday 10 July 11 17:39 BST (UK)
HO107 2421 57 34 is the 1851 census reference.  Their children then are William age 3 and Ann age 1 month.
By 1861 they also have Thomas age 7 and Richard age 5.
Andrea
Title: Re: Jane Shell
Post by: 2zpool on Sunday 10 July 11 18:13 BST (UK)
The 1861 census (RG9/3883 folio 28 page 17) has William as born Spittal.

There is a baptism in Spittal Presbyterian for a William Trotter, born 19 May 1823, baptised 30 May 1823 son of William and Sarah Trotter of Spittal
Title: Re: Jane Shell
Post by: Brendath on Sunday 10 July 11 18:27 BST (UK)
You seem to have found the same info as me. I would like to find out who her parents were as there were 3 Shell brothers on the island and I have been unable to find her marriage to William Trotter, as their first child William was born in 1848 it would have been mid 1840's to 1848
Title: Re: Jane Shell
Post by: sillgen on Sunday 10 July 11 19:25 BST (UK)
How do you know her name is Shell?    Is this from a child's birth certificate?   Is it possible she was widowed and then married William so under a different surname?   She was quite old to be marrying and having a first child in 1848.
Andrea
Title: Re: Jane Shell
Post by: 2zpool on Sunday 10 July 11 22:41 BST (UK)
Andrea--if Jane was born 1823--that only makes her 25 for her first child in 1848--I was 30!!!

Janis
Title: Re: Jane Shell
Post by: sillgen on Monday 11 July 11 07:25 BST (UK)
I am just clutching at straws but they did often marry earlier then! 
Andrea
Title: Re: Jane Shell
Post by: Brendath on Monday 11 July 11 19:02 BST (UK)
I have the birth certificate of Jane's son William b 1848 which gives her name as Shell. On the 1841 cesus she is given as living and working at the at the Cross Gate for John Moffat.
Title: Re: Jane Shell
Post by: Matilda1 on Tuesday 16 August 11 06:36 BST (UK)
Paxton Toll 11 August 1844 William Trotter of Spittle to Jane Shell of Holy Island. Wit. Thomas Shell, Mary Ann Mosman.
Source: Vol I Irregular Border Marriages, NDFHS available from www.ndfhs.org.uk/Sales/

See www.gla.ac.uk/departments/scottishwayofbirthanddeath/marriage/ for more info about irregular marriages.



Title: Re: Jane Shell
Post by: Brendath on Tuesday 16 August 11 14:28 BST (UK)
Thank you so much for finding this marriage. I had not heard of  irregular marriages but I did know that people from the Northumberland borders often married in Scotland. Is any sort of Marriage certificate avalible?
Title: Re: Jane Shell
Post by: Matilda1 on Wednesday 17 August 11 07:57 BST (UK)
I am afraid not.