Mary Churchill Cubitt

[Mabel Bagshawe]

Searching on British Newspaper Archives, the free results for Cubitt and Erpingham suggest that RW Cubbitt Esq (he seems to vary the order of his names) sold up in 1821 with some suggestion that he is going to a distant residence

[hirds423]

Allan -
Thanks so so much for your help! I feel like I have been thrown a life preserver!  
This is what I know & what I have gleaned.   Frederick Cubitt was my gggrandfather and I have two items with the name Mary Churchill on them - a sillhouette (oh, yes very helpful to determine what she looked like  ) and a teeny Bible, inscribed, I think, with the date 1807 (it's someplace safe right now).  I have a book on Bowmanville (where they settled in Canada) which says that the Cubitts' first residence was named Erpingham, after their ancestral home (or something to that effect) and lists the father and names three sons as having emigrated - no mention of a wife (of any name) or another son.  Three of the four boys I mentioned are all listed in the Erpingham St Mary register 1813-1880 Baptism project with Woolmer (various spellings) and Mary as parents; the birthdate of the eldest,Richard Woolmer, I made a stab at from my Bowmanville book.  I hadn't seen the other entries with Hatai/Hattie and I don't find them on the page nor anything with the name Nancy, I am afraid. So maybe I am looking at the wrong church records?  It's just that Woolmer is a rather unusual name, so I thought I had hit pay dirt.
And yes, sorry, I knew that it was Oulton where Frederick & Rebecca were married.  Her family (the Woods) were from there. I  'misspoke' in my typing!  
It didn't occur to me that Mary might not have been from Erpingham because there was another Churchill (a Joseph Dixie) also listed in the forementioned St Mary birth register - maybe a brother, though, and not her father? I had assumed the family were from there (oops).
The name Frostenden was completely new  to me and I am looking forward to scrabbling around in the parish register you so kindly linked!  Just glancing at it, I already have seen names that I recognise. I also will have to check how far apart Oulton and Frostenden are.
Again, many many thanks!

Daphne

[hirds423]

Thank you also Mabel and Trish! 
I found that a Woolmer Richard Cubitt graduated from Glasgow in medicine in 1823, (listed on the Univeristy of Glasgow webpage, although in my Bowmanville book, his university was Edinburgh) so maybe that was why he was selling up?  I just figured it was 'my' Woolmer Richard Cubitt, but maybe there were hordes of them trotting around?
I wonder what Mary thought of that?
Daphne

[Mabel Bagshawe]

There are a couple of trees on Ancestry with various bits of info on the Cubitts - it doesn't all have citations on it so the dependability of some if it is difficult to judge - eg one has a date of death for Mary in December 1870.

[hirds423]

Thanks also Mabel and Trish!
As far as selling up in 1821, I had found out that Woolmer Richard Cubitt graduated from the University of Glasgow with a degree in medicine (this from the UG webpage while my little book on Bowmanville says it was Edinburgh).  So maybe that is why he sold up?  I wonder what Mary (and the boys) did?  Maybe she reestablished her life in Suffolk?

Daphne

Aaak - sorry - the computer had hung when I first pressed post and now I see I am repeating myself.

[hirds423]

Mabel -
  - that's mine.  I got the date off BMD.  I am very new to this and didn't realise at first the value of writing down my sources.
Sorry because it means I will be perpetuating errors, no doubt.
Daphne

I should clarify that I had chosen that particular Mary Cubitt because she was the right age & right place, as far as I could tell.

[trish1120]

The Mary Cubitt born c 1790 who died Erpingham Reg District 1871 age 81 is the Wife of a William.
She is born Salthouse, Norfolk. She seems to be nee HIGH.
So not yours.

Trish

[hirds423]

Thanks so much Trish! My apologies to anyone I confused.
I will 'axe' that date from my tree as soon as I send this.
Oh well, another blunder!  Not the first, no doubt not the last.

Daphne

[trish1120]

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