King's Lynn - Search for Robert & Sarah in 1871?

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Thanks for your thoughts -  dilemma indeed!

I'm just going on collecting snippets of STACEY/BORLEY info and hope that they will all fall magically into place at some stage...  having said that, I am much further on than I was a month ago so pleased to be making some headway.  I just have to accept that nothing can really be proved beyond doubt...

...which brings me back to the Richard/Robert question.  Robert Stacey states his father as Robert, labourer at the time of his marriage and I'm seeking any evidence of that family in Lynn in 1871-2 and at any stage beforehand.  Can anyone find anything suggesting that there was both a Robert STACEY and a Richard STACEY in Lynn who had a son Robert b. 1850ish or could there somehow be a name inconsistency and actually Robert=Richard??  How nice and straightforward it would have been for the MC to have 'Richard' as the father!

[cfc]

Hi,
I too am chasing the mysterious Stacey family of King's Lynn, I know that William Dow Stacey married Louisa Leggett in 1891 and preceded to have 8 children but Williams past is shrouded (no pun intended) in mystery. Any help would be so much appreciated.

[heywood]

Hi,
I too am chasing the mysterious Stacey family of King's Lynn, I know that William Dow Stacey married Louisa Leggett in 1891 and preceded to have 8 children but Williams past is shrouded (no pun intended) in mystery. Any help would be so much appreciated.

Hello,

I have reread this thread -trying to understand it again 

Your William Dow Stacey looks as though there is a clue:
Is he the son of John and Mariah who are boarders with Sarah in 1871?
If so and it does look good - then  in 1851 - 1829/303/ 7 they are Dow, living in South Clough Lane Kings Lynn.

Robert Dow   40 yrs
Sarah 39 yrs
Martha 19 yrs
John 16 yrs
James 12 yrs
William 9 yrs
Robert 11 yrs

I am not sure what the connection between the Stacey/Dow is just yet.

[heywood]

You may want then to go to 1841 for Robert and Sarah Dow. They are in St Peter Rockland (Robert's place of birth) and with the children from 1851.
Robert's age is mistranscribed I think as 53 yrs and should be 33 yrs.
Martha (19 yrs in 1851) is Martha Jolly and they are with older Jollys - perhaps Sarah's parents.

You would then have to look to see if Sarah Dow becomes Sarah Stacey.

regards
heywood

[heywood]

Robert Dow married Sarah Jolly in 1834 at Rockland All Saints With St. Andrew.

[cfc]

Thanks Heywood, it does look interesting, from your research I'm not sure where Mariah fits in? and Jolly is a completely new name to my tree.

[heywood]

Which Mariah do you mean?

Who is William Dow Stacey's father on the marriage certificate?

In 1891 William 28 yrs has a 'brother' Robert D 40 yrs with him 

[cfc]

Your William Dow Stacey looks as though there is a clue:
Is he the son of John and Mariah who are boarders with Sarah in 1871?

you mention Mariah wife of John? sorry but John who? Stacey or Dow?

[heywood]

I thought that you were making a connection with the Staceys in this thread. I may have misunderstood.

William married as Stacey. Do you have his marriage certificate with details of his father?
Do you have him in any censuses before his marriage?

There is a William born 1862 with parents John and Mariah Stacey who are boarding with Sarah Stacey and her family in 1871.

This family possibly trace back to a Dow family in 1851 and then, if the same family, have a change of name to Stacey later.