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Title: Betsy Ann CREEPER
Post by: AllanR on Monday 06 October 14 17:08 BST (UK)
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
Title: Re: Betsy Ann CREEPER
Post by: lizdb on Monday 06 October 14 17:27 BST (UK)
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!

Title: Re: Betsy Ann CREEPER
Post by: lizdb on Monday 06 October 14 17:36 BST (UK)
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.
Title: Re: Betsy Ann CREEPER
Post by: AllanR on Monday 06 October 14 17:37 BST (UK)
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
Title: Re: Betsy Ann CREEPER
Post by: rosie99 on Monday 06 October 14 17:46 BST (UK)
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
Title: Re: Betsy Ann CREEPER
Post by: rosie99 on Monday 06 October 14 17:53 BST (UK)
The burial for Digory in Launceston 22 July 1844 gives his age as 27 and abode Back Lane.
Title: Re: Betsy Ann CREEPER
Post by: avm228 on Monday 06 October 14 17:54 BST (UK)
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
Title: Re: Betsy Ann CREEPER
Post by: rosie99 on Monday 06 October 14 18:02 BST (UK)
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
Title: Re: Betsy Ann CREEPER
Post by: avm228 on Monday 06 October 14 18:11 BST (UK)
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
Title: Re: Betsy Ann CREEPER
Post by: AllanR on Tuesday 07 October 14 12:44 BST (UK)
Many, many thanks to all who replied to my query - obviously I was very much mistaken in my assumption!

Thanks again


AllanR
Title: Re: Betsy Ann CREEPER
Post by: rosie99 on Tuesday 07 October 14 12:46 BST (UK)
I think we were probably all fooled as Digory wasn't with Betsy Ann on census night 1841  ;D