John BURBIDGE in Barnack

[Ossibus]

If anyone has access to registers for Barnack I should be very grateful for help with the following:

According to IGI, John Burbidge married Elizabeth Smith at Barnack on 17 Jan or possibly 17 June 1826.  In particular I would like to know if she was a widow, if he was a widower, and if he had a middle name.

I think the same John Burbidge was christened at Barnack on 13 July 1783, and that his wife Elizabeth Burbidge was buried there on 8 Feb 1831, and would be very grateful for any further detail on these events.

[CaroleW]

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[RichardK]

Appreciate it's nearly a year since you asked, but if you're still looking on this one, they are:

Baptism:
1783: John Son of Francis & Alice Burbidge July 13

Marriage:
No. 56, 17 Jan 1826
John Burbidge of this parish, widower & Elizabeth Smith of this parish, spinster
By licence; both signed their names
Witnesses: Francis Sisson & William Burbidge

Burial:
No. 243, 8 Feb 1831
Elizabeth Burridge of Barnack, aged 29 - no further details.

You might also be interested in this baptism:
No.229, 9 Feb 1823
John Burbidge, illegitmate son of John Burbidge, butcher, & Elizabeth Smith

There are also a couple more burials of people called John Burbidge:
14 Jan 1832, aged 39
18 Nov 1839, aged 66

Hope that helps.
Regards
Richard

[Ossibus]

Richard, Thank you for this. I had come to a dead end.

The John Burbidge baptised in 1783 seems to have been buried in Barnack in 23 Aug 1788, but his parents John and Alice baptised another John on 4 Aug 1793.

This 1793 John must surely have been the widower who married Elizabeth Smith, spinster, on 17 Jan 1826, and also the butcher who was father of her son John Burbidge born on 9 Feb 1823.

The most likely previously deceased wife of the butcher seems to be the Ann buried on 6 Jan 1822, aged 32, and. also speculatively, she may have been the Ann Lumby who married a John Burbidge, whose mother is named as Alice, at Stamford on 3 Aug 1813.

John son of John and ELizabeth appears in the 1841 census as a Carpenter aged 18, living in Barnack but not with his parents; in 1851, still a carpenter, he is with his wife Jane (born in Stamford) and two sons in Spalding.  He had married Jane Shivers in Thorney in 1847, and the marriage certificate states that John's father was dead.

So it seems that the John Burbidge you discovered to have been buried on 14 Jan 1832 aged 39 must be the butcher.  Since the John Burbidge I am seeking was alive in 1861, you have found the final piece of the puzzle which convinces me that the Barnack butcher is not the man I am looking for.

If you are interested in these Burbidges I have a certain amount more information which I could pass on.  Meanwhile, I am very grateful for your help.