ELDRED and KETTON / KIRTON families (Spalding/Moulton area)

[CatOne]

Heres Elizabeth in 1851 -

Betsy Kirton 55 wid Charwoman Spalding
James 24 son Ag Lab Moulton
Ann Pinder niece 24 Spalding

HO107/2096 Folio 680 Page 12
Moulton, Lincs

Is Long Sutton near Moulton/Spalding area then??  

[Mitch65]

Long Sutton is about 5-7 miles away from Moulton and about twice as much from Spalding.  It's actually not that far away from the Norfolk border.

The Eldreds didn't stay in that part of the world - my grandmother was born in Algakirk, which is closer to Boston.

Michelle

[GeoffE]

I have an ancestor who somehow appears as an ELDRED in 1841 on his marriage certificate but every other document (before or since) has the family as ELDING.

[Mitch65]

How bizarre!  Could just be that the registrar misinterpreted his name or your relative preferred Elding!  Mine remained as Eldred.

Michelle

[Beckey]

Hi Mitch 65,

This is all I could find at Moulton with what I have.

Bapt. 17/4/1831 Jacob son of Jacob & Elisabeth Kirton  Lab.
Burial  4/5/1831 Jacob Ketton  Moulton Rampart Side  Inf.
Bapt. 13/8/1832 Jacob  son of Jacob & Elizabeth Ketton  Lab.
Bapt. 21/2/1836  Jonathan son of Jacob & Elizabeth Ketton  Lab.
Burial 28/11/1837  Jacob Ketton  Moulton  aged 38.

Hope of some help.

[Mitch65]

Hello Beckey

That's a great help, thank you.  I have a suspicion that I may never know for sure which is the right surname because they're obviously interchangeable, even by the people who are called by them!

I can feel a trip to the Lincoln Archives coming on the next time I'm in the UK.

Michelle

[_Noel]

Just wondering if your Spikins ancestors were from Spalding.

[Mitch65]

Hi there

Thanks for your reply.

From what I've been able to discover, my Spiking (Jane Spiking) was born in Revesby, although the location seems to change quite often!  They lived in the Horncastle / Toynton area.  She married into the Graves family.

Do  you have a Spiking or two as well?

Michelle