godmanchester pr's

[kylejustin]

does anyone have access to godmanchester parish records? im looking for the christening of lavinia broff brown around 1798-1800.

thanx in advance

[horse000]

Hi

If you are still looking for this info...

Source, IGI (submitted entry) - not PR's:
May 1799 Lavinia Boff Brown, Godmanchester, bap.
1821 George Shaw, Southampton, mar.
25 Dec 1877 London, death.

Regards
Geoff

[kylejustin]

thanks for the help geoff. i already know about her life, i was hoping to get confirmation of her birth, and see if she was a twin.

[horse000]

Hi

Interesting you mention a twin...

Just checked my notes, there were 2 or 3 possibles born about 1799 in Hunts. with what appeared to be same parents but in different places, I even checked the trees on Anc. they were equally confusing. So I decided not to mention them being so obscure.

I'll have another look later.

Regards
Geoff

[kylejustin]

lavinia always states 1799 on the census, and she had a brother henry, c.1798. thing is though, their father was dead in oct 1798, so i was wondering if she was born posthumously, or if she and henry were twins. but no one seems to be able to access the godmanchester records to check!

[bedfordshire boy]

lavinia always states 1799 on the census

Not on a single census! In 1841 she was 40 which covered a birth range of 40-44, in 1851 she was 50, in 1861 and 1871 61 and 71 respectively. She appears to have been buried at Horbling Lincs on 31 Dec 1877 aged 78, but burial ages are notoriously unreliable, although her death in London states age 78 also. So her birth appears to have been somewhere between Apr 1799 and Mar 1801 depending on which census you take. Her Marriage Licence application dated 27 Jun 1821 gives her age as 22, ie born between 28 Jun 1798 and 27 Jun 1799. So a birth between Apr and Jun 1799 would fit with the death of her father in Oct 1798.

But how sure are you that it's her father who was buried at Huntingdon St Mary & St Benedict on 1 Nov 1798, rather than, say, an elder infant brother? One Ancestry tree which looks to be very well researched states that he was described as MD on burial so presumably it was the father as Pallots Marriage Index also describes him as Richards Brown MD

Hunts Marriage Index shows a marriage at Huntingdon St Mary & St Benedict in 1797 between Richards (sic) Brown and Lavinia Broff and this is repeated on Pallots Marriage Index.

It looks rather as though Henry (age 63 in 1861) was older than Lavinia

Godmanchester parish register microfilm is available to order from and view at your nearest LDS Family History Centre, which, if the two children were baptised, should settle matters once and for all.

David

[kylejustin]

a relative has the mourning ring for richards brown, inherited through the  family, dated 28 oct 1798. it makes sense it's him as he was married in that church, and his sister's family are all associated with it too. which has me wondering, if he married there and was buried there, all in a little over a year, why were the kids born in godmanchester?

he was an MD, graduated from edinburgh in 1795. the brown family were of the horbling brown's, there is a dr brown buried at horbling, but it was 1797, possibly before the marriage to lavinia broff.

i am nowhere near an LDS centre, so it makes it more difficult!