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Title: william Jennings and Fanny Jennings
Post by: feesca1 on Sunday 29 December 13 12:15 GMT (UK)
Hi there I wonder if someone can help me I have a 1851 census of Fanny Jennings and children in the workhouse at Bury St Edmunds and can't find any info of William Jennings in the workhouse with his wife and children. William was born in 1813 at Ipswich Barracks I can trace all the family from 1851 to their deaths and no the addresses where they were living in that time. Would it be unusual for a wife to go in the workhouse on her own with the children without her husband. I can find Fanny and William in the 1861 census living in Middlesbrough by then.
Any help would be appreciated.
Thank you x
Title: Re: william Jennings and Fanny Jennings
Post by: down-under on Sunday 29 December 13 12:43 GMT (UK)
Could this be him?

1851 Brandsby Yorkshire
William Maw age 61
Jane wife  age 53
William Jennings age 38 lodger  married  ag lab  born Bury St Edmunds  Suffolk


Pam
Title: Re: william Jennings and Fanny Jennings
Post by: feesca1 on Sunday 29 December 13 14:31 GMT (UK)
I will see if I can investigate it further I can't understand though if it is. why leave his wife and children in the workhouse if he did go to Yorkshire as his wife fanny was born at Husthwaite in Yorkshire. So that would be the mystery and they by the 1861 census were all living in Middlesbrough.  Thank you.
Title: Re: william Jennings and Fanny Jennings
Post by: jan57 on Sunday 29 December 13 15:33 GMT (UK)
Maybe they were ill,   so  were in the hospital  part  of the workhouse, ?  some workhouse records may still exist  , so  maybe able to show  when the family had entered   
Title: Re: william Jennings and Fanny Jennings
Post by: Malcolm Bennett on Friday 25 April 14 22:41 BST (UK)
Fanny Jennings is my three greats grandmother.I too found her in the Bury St Edmunds workhouse while William was a lodger in Yorkshire.William was baptized in Culford.I believe his father was a soldier in the West Kent militia.I have some details of the regiment if interested.
Title: Re: william Jennings and Fanny Jennings
Post by: Dariqdaniel on Wednesday 06 April 16 00:24 BST (UK)
I have a legal document from 1831. It is from Kingsutton in the county of Northampton. It records Fanny Jennings living in a cottage with someone named Ann Ward. They seem to be renting off a man named William Paine and his nephew John Paine. It says the yearly rent was 5 shillings and 6 pence. Very interesting document.
Title: Re: william Jennings and Fanny Jennings
Post by: feesca1 on Wednesday 06 April 16 21:20 BST (UK)
Hi there Daniel that sounds a very interesting document. How did you come by it please if you don't mind me asking.
Kind regards
Fiona x
Title: Re: william Jennings and Fanny Jennings
Post by: feesca1 on Wednesday 06 April 16 21:24 BST (UK)
Daniel I don't know if it is the right fanny Jennings mine was born in husthwaite in 1824. Unless its to do with her husband William.
Kind regards
Fiona x