Baxter

[bedfordshire boy]

If you'd like a copy of the baptism entry could you send me a personal message with your email address and I'll attach it.

It was the opposite direction - I was stuck in Derby wanting to get home to the south of France! Should have stayed, it was warmer there than it is here!

I've found Ann in 1881 - it's 1861 and 1871 where I can't find her


David

[faraci]

Hi David
Harriet married James Cooke in 1860 and had a son Alfred Thomas Cooke born 1861 in Ledbury (he went on to be a riding master in the 17th Hussars and eventually lived at Fenchurch Street,London).
1861 Harriet is in Northampton as a lodger. Status - soldiers wife, but no mention of a baby.
The family then start to move around. The next 2 children are born in Dublin in 1864/66, followed by another child born in Dundalk Ireland 1868. A girl is then born in Shorncliffe Kent 1870. A boy  in Colchester Essex in 1872. Then 3 more children are born in Webheath Worcestershire in 1874/76/78.
In 1871 the family are living at Kensington Palace New Barracks including Alfred Thomas (the first born).
I don't know where Ann Baxter was for these 20 years but she reappears as Ann Walton in 1881 and is living with the family in Worcester. She must have married again I think.
On ancestry.com in 1881 Harriet Florence Cooke has an alternate name attached to her record as Harriet Florence Walton. I don't know where this has come from!!!
Suzanne 

[faraci]

I've just looked at Free BMD. Alfred Thomas Cook was born in December 1861 in Ledbury.   

[johnP-bedford]

John - have you got the NBI to see if there are any John Baxter burials 1837-41 in St Neots?

Hello David,  nice to hear that you got back eventually - I wasn't aware that you'd been away

Anyway, No the NBI doesn't have the burial of John Baxter at St Neots in that time frame.

[bedfordshire boy]

On ancestry.com in 1881 Harriet Florence Cooke has an alternate name attached to her record as Harriet Florence Walton. I don't know where this has come from!!!

Because her mother is shown as Walton, Ancestry assumes, erroneously, that Harriet's maiden name was Walton.

Hello David,  nice to hear that you got back eventually - I wasn't aware that you'd been away

Took a surprise trip to Derby the day before UK airspace was closed. Took me 24 hours door to door to get back. At least Eurostar didn't use "volcanic ash in the chunnel" as the excuse for the 75 min delay! Good thing I had the will indexes as reading matter. Found lots that I want, including a Bolnhurst Sabey which might provide the link we're all looking for.

And now I'm going to turn into a pumpkin

[bedfordshire boy]

See http://genforum.genealogy.com/englandcountry/messages/141794.html re the Summers from Yelling

David

[faraci]

I think I have found Ann Baxter on 1861/71 censuses.

She has married a Samuel Welton (possible date for marriage December 1858 at Pancras, London 1b 80).
Her birthplace is given as Mendingshire St Mots - Huntingdonshire St Neots. Samuel is a labourer (born in Bow 1823) and they are living with Joseph & Elizabeth Summers from Yelling and their children William age 4 and Elizabeth age 6 months in Islington.

In 1771 Samuel's name is given as Wilton, living with Ann who is given as a year older than him whereas in 1861 she is 11 years older!

Samuel dies December 1878 age 54 in Islington (1b 185).
? Ann dies March 1895 age 85 also in Islington (1b 283).

[Dizzifish]

Hello……

I am sorry but I think you will have to have another look for a marriage for Ann…..

The details you have given for the marriage that took place DecQ 1858 - Pancras 1b 80 isn’t the correct marriage - that Samuel Wilton married Emily Harris at St Pancras Church 13th November 1858

Kind regards

Sheila.

[faraci]

Thanks Sheila for that information.
I was just guessing (which you shouldn't do, I know) as the date and place fitted!!
I'll carry on looking.
Regards
Suzanne