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I'm curious to see if you have had any luck in sorting out the Woodnorth family any further.  I am also interested in learning more about this family, which appears to have ties to both Whitehaven and the area around Wybunbury (you mention Weston) in Cheshire.  I'm working on the John Hall with whom Peter Woodnorth was connected at Whitehaven.  Hall's father (also John Hall) and Woodnorth, I think, were associated somehow in Wybunbury in the late 1700s, and I have a hunch they married into the same (Bourne) family.  The (younger) John Hall who worked with Woodnorth in Whitehaven was an important pottery manufacturer in Burslem (1790s-1830s) and I'm trying to figure out how these particular families (Woodnorth, Hall, Bourne) and their related businesses tied these three places (Whitehaven, Wybunbury, and Burslem) together from the 1780s-1830s.

I've seen that, too.  The odd thing here is that this woman had been married for a while, and her husband died around this time.  I would have expected to see her baptized under his last name, even if a widow.  But then, I'm not so sure what the rules are.  Or, better, I'm not sure what the practice tended to be.  I'm wondering the fact that she baptizes under her maiden name suggests that she is widowed by this time (she never remarries, and in fact dies two years later herself).  I have never seen anything quite like this, so am groping in the dark.

Would a married woman be baptized under her maiden name in the Church of England?  Or would this happen only if she is widowed?  Year is 1837, parish is St. Pancras, Middlesex.