I am researching Richard GAGER and would like to find please the
maiden name of his 2nd wife Susanna and who he descends from.
My ancestor Richard Gager lived in King Lynn Norfolk in 1764-1765 and again 1768-1779.
He married twice first to Ann Nelson nee Stanfield in 1764 in Tilney Norfolk
her parish, his was King Lynn.
1765 has a son John and first wife Ann was buried 1765 in King Lynn
His second wife Susanna[Susan] had
1768 daughter Elizabeth baptised November
1772 daughter Mary Baptised
1774 daughter Anne Baptised
1779 Richard was buried in King Lynn [no age given or occupation]
1786 Susanna his widow was buried in King Lynn [no age given]
The surname GAGER is uncommon in Norfolk. There are a 5 Richard
Gager's baptised in parish records [1672,1701,1707,1710,1734] in Bury
St Edmund's Suffolk in St James; the 1734 record is son of Richard
and Mary Gager.
Richard Gager the father of Richard above was married first to
Elizabeth and had two daughters
Mary 1731
Elizabeth 1732
His wife Elizabeth died in 1732 and he remarried Mary CROPLEY in 1733
They had Richard 1734
Mary 1737
Elizabeth 1739
The given names of this family in Bury are repeated in my family in King Lynn.
I have found a burial of a Richard GAGER in Bury in 1768 in July
which if this is the father of my Richard [maybe the baptised child of
1734] it would explain where he may have married. After Richard in
King Lynn's first wife died he may have moved back to family to have
someone to care for his son or to help his father if he was ill/aging.
I am wondering if Richard married his second wife in the Bury St
Edmund's area as I have not been able to find anything in Norfolk.
Any information on the family in Bury St Edmund's that might prove or
disprove this theory is welcome.
Kary
