Mary Ann Bennett Lambeth c 1840

[carol8353]

 There is a Charles Bennett death registration in Lambeth (buried St Mary Lambeth from the workhouse) that would be about the right age - 33 but the death is in 1848.


Regards

Valda

Well he was 25 (rounded down) in 1841 so that death could be correct.
But how can he have signed two of their marriage certs if he died in 1848 
Or if as Valda thinks the son John were really Charles John then perhaps it is him who witnessed his siblings marriages?

[Valda]

Hi


Mary Ann Bennett senior is a widow on the 1851 and 1861 censuses.


Regards

Valda

[carol8353]

Hi


Mary Ann Bennett senior is a widow on the 1851 and 1861 censuses.


Regards

Valda

But is he really or did he just do a bunk 

So as I said before the 1848 death is looking likely.

And the witness might have been the son John(Charles?)

Carol

[Valda]

Hi

He could have done a bunk but women usually still gave their status as married on the census when that was the case as they still were.

The three signatures on the three marriages don't look particularly similar.

The problem with the 1848 death is the age of John on the 1851 census, and if the same child, 1861 and 1871 censuses. There doesn't appear to be a baptism for te child.


Regards

Valda

[taylorwallace]

Many thanks to all contributors on this. I suppose Charles (John) could have started off as a coopers labourer and was made to sound more qualified than he actually was on the childrens marriage certificates by promoting him to cooper. He is at least described as a cooper on the 1841 census!
All the streets and parishes involved are very close together so it would have been very easy to get to St John Lambeth from Gt Guildford Street in Southwark for baptisms at the church where the couple were married.
It is a pity that they didnt show father as deceased on the marriage certificates. I suppose if people were just asked "what did your father do?" they neednt have said that he had died!
When/where the father actually died is indeed a mystery but I feel I have enough info now to assume this is the correct family so many thanks again.
tw