Who has ancestors moving from NFK to Hull in 1840s

[Hunnyb22]

Hi Nick...What a coincidence? After WW2 my dad worked for a firm called Gilliott and Scott up until the late 60's, I wonder if the two are connected? I know Scott is a common name, but both connected with dock companies?

Kind regards
Hunnyb22

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[Roger The Hat]

I know I'm a bit late, but I've only just started tracing my wife's family as a retirement project. It appears that a whole family of Bubbings (her GGGrandfather Robert) moved to Hull from Ludham, in Norfolk, in the late 1850's. They were wheelwrights, coachbuilders and painters.

And to think I hated History at school....

[Hunnyb22]

Hi Roger The Hat...It's a different kind of history though isn't it? This time it relates to your family.

I found these on the LDS website, I know the name differs to your's but it was how it was heard by the enumerator.

Charles BUBBINGE   Husband (Head)   M   Male   35   Ludham, Norfolk, England   Wheelwright     
 Eliza BUBBINGE   Wife   M   Female   42   Ludham, Norfolk, England   Formerly Dressmaker     
 Sarah BUBBINGE   Daur      Female   12   Ludham, Norfolk, England       
 William BUBBINGE   Son      Male   10   Ludham, Norfolk, England       
 Robert BUBBINGE   Son      Male   4   Hull, York, England

Kind regards
Hunnyb22

[Roger The Hat]

Thanks for responding so quickly - I just assumed that, as it is an old thread, my first post might be overlooked.

I had seen the Bubbinge family, but thought that because of the different spelling.......

It probably won't be my last mistake!

I'll have to get down the Library tomorrow and check the censuses (censi?)
for alternates.

Oops. Dinner time.

[Hunnyb22]

Hi Roger The Hat ...Most of the spellings on these sites and records are as the enumerator heard them. Many people couldn't read or write in those days, so wouldn't have been able to correct any errors.

We all make mistakes but hopefully, can correct them before it's too late (like following one family tree only to discover much later that we're not connected at all ).

Good luck with your search.

Kind regards
Hunnyb22

[Roger The Hat]

Thanks for the encouragement, Hunnyb22.

Something that's puzzling me is what we call The Bubbings Conundrum:

I have Robert F. Bubbings, 27, Wife Christiana, 26 (1871 census, Holderness)
           Robert F. Bubbings, 37, Wife Clara, 34        (1881 census, Holderness)
           Robert F. Bubbings, 47, Wife Christiana, 45 (1891 census, Drypool)

The children don't match, either.
Surely that's not a mistake, the names are too dissimilar.

Would he have divorced Christiana, married Clara, then remarried Christiana?
Could he have a double? Was he a bigamist?




Have you come across anything like this before? I'd really value an experienced opinion.

Thanks.

(My son's just turned up, and he wants his laptop back. I'll have to pick this up at the Library, tomorrow. Bye). 

[Bee]

Hi Roger the Hat

If Christiana is her official name, maybe Clara was her nickname.

Yorkshirebmd has the following marriage
Robert Bubbings to Christiana Mayor at Sculcoates Register Offices in 1864

also from Yorkshirebmd
death 1897, Christiana Bubbings aged 51

Bee
 

[Hunnyb22]

Hi Roger The Hat...As Bubbings is such an unusal name I doubt that it's a mistake. It could be, as you say, he married again. Bee could be right, if Christiana didn't like her name she may have adopted the name Clara?

If the family were Catholic then divorce is out of the question, even if not, times were hard then and the ordinary working man wouldn't have been affluent enough to afford a divorce.

There's a lot of ifs and buts I know but you'll only know for certain if you send for their marriage or one of their children's birth certificates.

Kind regards
Hunnyb22

[Roger The Hat]

Thanks, Hunnyb22 and Bee, for the advice.

Christiana was definitely a Major. I've no idea who Clara was.

I feel a bit daft, though - it hadn't occurred to me to get a certificate for a "wrong" family!


Roger The Hat.