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England (Counties as in 1851-1901) => England => Huntingdonshire => Topic started by: aidansrest on Saturday 07 June 25 14:50 BST (UK)
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Hi
Looking for any information (baptism) regarding Harriet Tossil.
She married James Peacock in Abbotsley, Huntingdonshire in 1837 (no date given on parish record).
She was born c1820 in Abbotsley, and her maiden name from their children's birth registrations give it variously as Tossil or Tassel.
She died in St Neots in 1907; her age given correctly as 87 years.
No trace of a baptism, or of any others of that surname in Huntingdonshire around that time.
Sue
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Huntingdonshire marriage index also mentions Tossil/ Tossel/ Tosel marriages at Abbotsley for -
Louisa to Sam Cannon in 1831
Mary to James Cartwright 1835
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Thanks so much...will take a look. A very unusual surname!
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She married James Peacock in Abbotsley, Huntingdonshire in 1837 (no date given on parish record).
Marriage is on Free BMD index so you could send for the certificate to find more details.
Dec 1837 St Neots
Vol 14 Page 347
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Think that is what I may have to do - alot of other researchers on 'ancestry' have her as Harriet Hicks, but this cannot be right, as her children's birth registrations attest.
Sue
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On the index it's Tossil
Hopefully a fathers name/occupation will be given.
I wonder where the Hicks idea comes from?
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There is a Harriet Hicks James Peacock marriage in 1833 Kingswood Glos, perhaps the two ladies have been mixed together.
Possibly Harriet Hicks baptised 1815 Bitton Glos parents Isaac and Charlotte
ancestry does jump to the Hicks marriage as a suggestion so can see why the two are mixed up.
That James & Harriet are in Glos in 1841 with a daughter Emma so definitely not your Harriet
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A lot of trees have her as the daughter of William and Elizabeth Pashler, but no baptism date.
They list ten siblings.
1841 Census - Abbotsley, St Neots, Huntingdonshire & Cambridgeshire
William Tossill Male 50 1791 Ag. Lab.
Elizabeth Tossill Female 50 1791 Huntingdonshire
Christiana Tossill Female 15 1826 Huntingdonshire
Rachel Tossill Female 15 1826 Huntingdonshire
Joseph Tossill Male 10 1831 Huntingdonshire
Robert Enderby Male 50 1791 Huntingdonshire
William, b 1786, may be in Tetworth in 1851, born in Croyton (Croydon?) Cambs, next door to his son William, born 1822 in Abbotsley.
P.S. William may be duplicated in 1851:
William Tossel Head Married Male 66 1785 Lab Croydon, Cambridgeshire
Betsey Tossel Wife Married Female 67 1784 Wife Abbotsley, Huntingdonshire
Joseph Tossel Son Unmarried Male 22 1829 Lab Abbotsley, Huntingdonshire
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Thank you - worth a look!!
Sue
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There is a Harriet Tossil baptism in Abbotsley in 1820, according to CHFHS
http://www.rootschat.com/links/01tt2/
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One of the others in the database, Louisa Tossil, baptised in 1813, married Samuel Cannon in Abbotsley in 1831.
1851 census - Abbotsley, St Neots, Huntingdonshire & Cambridgeshire
Samuel Cannon Head Married Male 40 1811 Lab ag Abbotsley, Huntingdonshire
Louisa Cannon Wife Married Female 38 1813 Lab wife Abbotsley, Huntingdonshire
Five children in 1861.
Louisa on the censuses until 1891 and buried in Abbotsley on 22nd January 1900.
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Thanks so much for everyone's help and interest - much appreciated
Sue