Huntingdon marriage index

[Selina]

Hi David,

Thank you very much for looking for me, it helps just to know that there does not appear to be a suitable marriage within the dates.

If you scroll down the Hunts board you will see my Brighty/Stevens thread.  From that I was lucky in being sent an extract from a Will which indicated that my Barnabas was the illegimate son of Barnabas Brighty by an Alice - the Will left a bequest "for the maintenance support of Barnabas the son of Alice Stevens the now Wife of  (space left here in Will) Stevens late of Ramsey aforesaid Labourer but now a private soldier".

That is where I am stuck.

Selina

[bedfordshire boy]

Hi Selina

Check the TNA catalogue - WO97

WO 97/211/25     JOHN STEVENS Born RAMSEY, Huntingdonshire Served in 2nd Foot Guards Discharged aged 43     1799-1818

Looks promising! Is this where you got "possibly John" from?

Is Alice Stevens the one buried in Ramsey on 17 Nov 1813 age 40?

The problem is that if he was a soldier when they married, notwithstanding they both may have been from Ramsey, they might have married anywhere where he was serving.

David

[Selina]

Hi David,

Thanks again.  Yes that is where I got the 'possibly John' bit from although I did not realise it was listed on TNA, his discharge was something I just happened to copy down many years ago when I was at Kew, because of the Ramsey connection,  long before I knew about the Will etc.

Unfortunately it makes no mention of marital status, wife anything like that.  He was enlisted in Sussex and received the discharge certificate in Wisbech.

The ages for my Barnabas vary but the span is 1794/97, always said to have been born in Ramsey and lived there all his adult life.  His supposed father, Barnabas Brighty, had 13 children, none of which were named Barnabas which has always seemed to me to be another clue that he was the chap involved!  Apart from making the yearly allowance he left provision for an apprenticeship and a lump sum at the age of 21 etc., which shows that he obviously had a great interest in the boy.

Without a marriage or a baptism its a bit of a dead end at present, but we all have to call a halt somewhere!

I will check up on the Alice Stevens who died 1813, thanks.

Selina

[Gillg]

Re reply #10 from Austen

There is a Leeding family living next door to mine in Easton in 1861.  They are
John 36 Gardener b Easton
Harriet 36 wife b St Ives
Thomas 10 b Wisbe(a)ch St Mary, Cambs
Harriet 6 b St Ives
Mary Ann 4 b Easton

By 1871 they had moved (don't know where to) and in 1881 they are in Brampton High Street
John 58 General Dealer
Harriet 56
RG11/1603/8 p10

Another Leeding family is in Spaldwick in 1881
George 47 Farm Labourer b Spaldwick
Mary 48 b Woolley
Sanders 17 Farm Labourer b Ellington
John G 11 b Spaldwick
RG11 1602/75 p13

And yet another family all born Spaldwick had relocated to Barnsley by 1881, where all but one were unemployed:

John 50 Widower General Labourer (unemployed)
Alfred 24 Son Brickyard Labourer
Ellen 22 Dau Housekeeper at home
Margaret A 19 Dau General Servant (unemployed)
Matilda M 15 Dau Kitchenmaid (unemployed)
32 Springfield St Barnsley, Yorks
RG11 4603/13 p 30

A member's submission (beware!) on the LDS site suggests that his wife's name was Elizabeth and has the children's christenings, too.

Any of these belong to you?

Gillg

 



 

[aleeden]

Hi David,

The one that I am most interested in is between Thomas Leeding and Anne Southwell.  This is where I hit a dead end.  All I know is that they both died in Yaxley in 1770.

I am going to roll this into two replies a it may help as someone else wrote a post regarding possible connections to my Leedings. 

Thomas and Anne had 9 children.

Catherine Leeding b.1742-?
Thomas Leeding b.1744-? (m.Ann Harrison b.May18,1774 Spaldwick)
Sarah Leeding b1746-1749
Elizabeth Leeding 1749-1749
William Leeding b.1751-?
John Leeding b.1753-?
Mary Leeding b.1756-1757
Samuel Leeding b.1758-? (m.Sarah Clay)

I can trace only two of them.  I can trace Samuel Leeding all the way to today.  All of his kids took the Leeden name.  Thomas and Ann Harrison had one son that I know of John Leeding b.1778.  I do not know anything about the rest of them.  Any information you have would be great.

Thanks again for all of your efforts.

Kind regards,

Austen

[bedfordshire boy]

Thomas Leading married Anne Southwell at Yaxley in 1742 - but I see from your first post on the Cambs board that you know this "19/19/1742 Yaxley"
Thomas Leeding m Ann Harrison at Yaxley in 1770 (this was the only Leeding marriage in Yaxley 1754-1837)
Samuel Leeding m Sarah Clay at Holywell cum Needingworth in 1784 both otp. Is there any evidence that Samuel from Yaxley is the Samuel married in Holywell 20+ miles away? There were a number of Leeding marriages in Holywell at around this time, pointing to there being a branch of the family in Holywell. Are you sure Samuel wasn't a local?

David