long melford

[john2o2o]

I would like to request a lookup of a marriage occurring at Long Melford sometime between 1st october 1852 and 31st december 1852 between Benjamin Mitchell and Hannah Lymix/Lynix? I am particularly interested in the name of Hannah's father.

Many thanks in advance.

[suzard]

How do you know the marriage took place between those dates??
If you are going by the marriage registration FreeBMD -then it just states Dec qtr Sudbury reg districtso the marriage could have taken place between mid-end Sept to Mid/end Dec somewhere in that registration district
also I am wondering if Hannah's name has been mistranscribed.

looking at 1861 census -if I have the correct family - hannah is a widow - and she has a Mitchell stepson -which indicates benjamin had been previously married
She also has a son whose surname is transcribed as Lomas (image it could be Lomax)
so was hannah a Lomax/Lomas when she married ?

if so had she been married before??


If you have any more information it would help narrow the search

Suz

[suzard]

is this Hannah in 1861??
Bridge St Long Melford Suffolk
(living next door is another Mitchel family)
Hannah Mitchell head widow 36 Bury St Edmunds Suffolk
Diana Mitchell stepdaughter 21 Horse hair weaver Melford Suffolk
Charles Lomax son 13 ag lab Bury St Edmunds
Sarah Ann Mitchelll daughter 7 Long Melford
Mary Ann Mitchell daughter 5 Long Melford
Benjamin Mitchell son 3 Long Melford
RG9 1131 110 9

Suz

[suzard]

and this looks like hannah and son Charles and possibly another son in 1851

Sudbury Union Workhouse
Suffolk
Hannah Lomax Pauper  U 26 servant bury St Edmunds
Charles Lomax Pauper 3 Buury St Edmunds
Male Lomax Pauper 2mths Sudbury
HO107 1789 196 12

Suz

[Suffolk Mawther]

If this is the family, Bridge Street is in fact a hamlet a couple of miles to the north of the village of Long Melford.

Pat ...

[suzard]

John -I know you were asking for a marriage look up - I am  trying to find out what Hannah's maiden name was??

It seems (if the 1861 family is correct) that it would be Lomax

Suz

[annes]

Taken from Long Melford parish registers:

Benjamin Mitchell - widower - labourer
Hannah Lymix - spinster - no occupation
Both of full age
Both of Melford
Both signed X
married 3rd October 1852
Fathers: Richard Mitchell labourer, John Lymix labourer
In presence of: John Younger (X). Robt. A. Heid (Heich?) (signed his name)

[annes]

I also checked Long Melford for a burial of the first Mrs Mitchell but could not find it, nor any earlier baptisms of children of the first marriage.

These baptisms were at Long Melford:

19th June 1853 - Sarah Ann d/o Benjamin and Hannah Mitchell
6th September 1857 - Mary Ann (born 1/3/1855) and Benjamin, both children of Benjamin (dec.) and Hannah Mitchell.

I couldn't see Benjamin's burial in the Long Melford registers but on the Suffolk Burial Index there is an entry for a Benjamin Mitchell being buried at Alpheton (about 4-5 miles from Long Melford) on 16th January 1857 aged 46.


Regards
Anne

[Suffolk Mawther]

I couldn't see Benjamin's burial in the Long Melford registers but on the Suffolk Burial Index there is an entry for a Benjamin Mitchell being buried at Alpheton (about 4-5 miles from Long Melford) on 16th January 1857 aged 46.

and the hamlet of Bridge Street is between Long Melford and Alpheton.

Bridge Street residents tended to use Long Melford Holy Trinity Church (where my children were baptised 

Pat ...