Hi. I know that this thread was active a few years ago but I am grasping at straws. I have been struggling to work out my Walker family who lived at Woodham Burn and there is only one name that sticks out that helps me and that is Bridget. She was born in 1822 in Cockfield and her family (parents Henry and Margaret) moved to Woodham Burn a few years later. I stumbled across this thread and thought I have found my answers but it has thrown up more questions than answers. My Bridget is missing from the 1841 census and if I have the right one married Thomas Stephenson in 1852. This all fits and I am happy to believe that she had an illegitimate child 10 years earlier in 1842 but it doesn't explain the existence of John Chapman and even if my Bridget married him and was widowed before 1852 why she wasn't called Bridget Chapman. I can't find any other Bridget Walkers to make sense of this so if anyone can see where I am going wrong I would be very grateful.
Thanks
Alison
Alison, I feel your pain.

We have struggled to make any headway with the Bridget in our family for a while now. She's very elusive. I'll double check where i found the marriage record for John and Bridget but she did go on to have another son after the marriage.
Your best bet would be to start a new thread and then post a link to this one as I can't reopen it. :-(