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England (Counties as in 1851-1901) => Cornwall => England => Cornwall Lookup Requests => Topic started by: AllanR on Monday 06 October 14 17:08 BST (UK)
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Betsy Ann was baptised on April 18, 1813 at St. Mary Magdalene, Launceston. My question is: did she mary Joshua VEAL in 1839?
Have bee unable to locate her in subsequent censuses - did the newlyweds emigrate?
Any help gratefully received,
AllanR
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Marriage Apr/Jun/Jul 1839
Launceston
Has these people on the page:
Betsy Ann Creeper
Elizabeth Edwards
John Finnamore
Mary Hicks
Samuel Hodgkinson
Mary Squire
Joshua Veal
Digory Warne
So lets have a look at subsequent censuses and see who was likely to have married whom!
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Not that easy though . . . all are elusive!
The only Joshua Veal I am seeing in 1841/51 has a wife called Mary (though they are in Devon)
Lots of John Fin*mores in Cornwall.
Not seeing a Digory Warne with a wife with any of these names! Keep fineding one with wife Maria.
Not seeing any any Samuel Hodgkinsons n Cornwall in 1841 at all.
So it isnt just whoever married Betsy who has "disappeared", they are all proving difficult to trace.
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Hi Lizdb,
Many thanks, that is where I got Joshua VEAL's name from as I was able to follow the other fellows through the 1851 census, bu not Joshua.
AllanR
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A tree on Ancestry has her marrying Digory Warne 11 April 1839 & dying in 1866. Digory died 1844.
So maybe
Deaths Sep 1844
WARNE Digory
Launceston 9 105
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The burial for Digory in Launceston 22 July 1844 gives his age as 27 and abode Back Lane.
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Digory Warne, a carpenter of Launceston, was reported in the press as aged 27 at the time of his fatal accident in July 1844. The accident occurred whilst he was working on a construction project at Werrington House, a seat of the Duke of Northumberland. He left a widow and two small children.
A report appears in the Royal Cornwall Gazette, 26 July 1844
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Betsy Ann is in Back Lane (or Tower Street) in 1841
age 25 Carpenters wife bn in County also William age 1 bn in County
H0107/154 Bk 1 f54 p19
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1861 shows the following (RG9/1520/38/13):
Northgate Street, Launceston
Susanna CREEPER Head Wid 82 Formerly servant Northill Cornwall
Elizabeth WARNE Daur Wid 48 Dressmaker Launceston Cornwall
Mary WARNE Gr Daur Unm 19 Fancy sempstress Launceston Cornwall
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Many, many thanks to all who replied to my query - obviously I was very much mistaken in my assumption!
Thanks again
AllanR
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I think we were probably all fooled as Digory wasn't with Betsy Ann on census night 1841 ;D