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England (Counties as in 1851-1901) => England => Huntingdonshire => Topic started by: Georgfriedrich on Wednesday 12 August 15 11:12 BST (UK)
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Dear Rootschatters,
My ancestress, Sarah Roberts, says that she was born at Buckden in about 1786. She married, in 1809 at St Neots, Robert Cook, and died in 1878 at Caxton.
I am trying to find out Sarah's parents. Is anyone able to help?
Bye for now,
Kirk
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Hello Kirk
May help if there are any Roberts witnesses at her marriage.
Jackie
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Buckden baptisms aren't online, but Hunts FHS has a CDrom, or you could use Huntingdon Archives research service to look for her baptism in Buckden.
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Hello Jackie,
Unfortunately there were no Roberts witnesses at her wedding
Thank you Bedfordshire boy I will look into that. Maybe I should ask if someone will go and look for me at the archives.
Bye for now,
Kirk
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Not sure that we have anyone on this board who goes to Huntingdon. It might be simpler to use the Archives research service, cost £20 for 30 mins research, which should be ample to look up one baptism. Even cheaper at £11-50 would be to purchase the CD from Hunts FHS.
A John Roberts married Sarah Dixon in Buckden in 1783, but you still need to find her baptism
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Hello Kirk, please wait, as Iam in the process of applying for the C/Dof Buckden,will post it as soon as I can, give me a week before it arrives.Margaret.
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Hello this is all I could find in Buckden,??????????
bapts26.6.1792, susannah dau john/sarah roberts.
marriage 5.6.1785, john roberts=sarah dixson, witts were william piggot sen,/mary allinson.
do you need the burials.???????????Margaret.
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Thank you Margaret, that's very interesting. Although it isn't conclusive proof that John Roberts and Sarah Dixon are the parents of my Sarah, the names John, Sarah and Susannah are to be found amongst her children and so there might be a link/.
The marriage of John Roberts and Sarah Dixon in 1785 are consistent with them being possible parents of my Sarah who was born in c. 1785/6.
If you have any Roberts burials in Buckden - they might prove informative.
Are there any births for Robert as a surname?
Thank you once again Margaret.
Kind regards
Kirk
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Hi Kirk, this is from Buckden register
burials 1776 susannah Roberts, no ages given.
1785 anne,
1785 anne a pauper,
1786 john.
1789 susannah
1795 william son of william, infant.
1813 anne 57,
1819 william 68. Margaret.
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Dear Margaret,
Thank you ever so much for looking these up for me.
It looks right but there are so many gaps. I will have to keep looking but I am keeping all these details near at hand.
Just as a matter of interest. Are there any records for the name Cook? Sarah married a chap called Robert Cook at St Neots in 1809.
Thank you once again for your help,
With kind regards,
Kirk
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Both were otp according to Hunts Marriage Index
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Hello Kirk, checked Buckden for refs to Cook, nothing.
marriage at st neots, 26.6.1809, robert cook, x. bac,otp.=sarah roberts, sp, o.t.p
witts were maria parsons/ john franklin.
bapt at st neots24.4.1782, william son of johnathan/ann cook. carpenter??????????????????
not confirmed by no means.
Margaret.
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Thanks Margaret and Beds. Boy,
This is my research on Sarah.
According to her, she was born in Buckden. She married Robert Cook in St Neots in 1809. They had various children: John, Ann, Thomas, Susannah (all born at St Neots) and Sarah born 1820 at Caxton. Robert was dead by 1841 and Sarah lived for a while in Royston with her married daughter Susannah before returning to Caxton with her youngest daughter, Sarah who I think eventually married. At first she lived with some of her children and their families in a place called 'The Warren' in Caxton. But as the years passed she ended up on her own.
Poor and with little in the way of skills Sarah lived at a cottage in High Street, Caxton for many years on parochial relief before dying in 1878 at the Union Workhouse in Caxton, aged about ninety - although her death certificate states ninety-four.
I have her death certificate but not her burial record ??? as I didn't have time to look at Caxton records for Cook. I'm fairly certain she was buried in the Parish Churchyard and I am thinking that perhaps her husband died in Caxton as well. This is something for me to investigate.
Bye for now,
Kirk