What's the name?!

[lizdb]

Looking at names ending Hoth or Heth, I reckon that it must be Culcheth - though none in Dorset in 1851 .....

[Hobbit Frodo]

I've just found a Margaret Culcheth died in Parkstone in 1772 aged 81....not quite sure where that leaves things as it's making my head hurt trying to figure out if she could be a relative!

[veeblevort]

The name Culcheth is mostly found in Lancashire and Cheshire according to Family Search.

Possibly named after the village of Culcheth in Cheshire, historically part of Lancashire.

vv.

[lizdb]

When did Deborah write her Will? You say she died 1825. If she wrote it after 1772 then the MArgaret's death in that year cant be the niece.

But of course it could be the niece's mother couldnt it?

I take it Deborah was single (as has same surname as brother Thomas) - so, did she also have a sister called MArgaret who married a Culcheth?  Or, seeing as Margaret Culcheth dying in 1772 was born in the late 1600's, do we need to go back another generation?

[veeblevort]

Oh and all the action is taking place in Parkstone, Poole, Dorset.

1841Census: HO107 287 6/11 16
Parkstone Village, Canford Magna, Parkstone, Poole DOR
Margaret Culcheth, F, 60, Ind., No
Margaret Culcheth, F, 25, Ind., No

vv.

FindMyPast as above, Ancestry say Culebeth!

[mosiefish]

Margaret Culcheth was born in 1772 and buried 16th October, 1853 at St Peters Parkstone.

Mo

[Hobbit Frodo]

WOW! You guys are amazing 

Thanks soooooo much!

I am being very slow and dim today but what does the 'Ind' mean on the census? If Margaret was a spinster then her daughter must have been illegitimate....but if this Margaret was married then she might be linked but not the one mentioned in Deborah's will. I think. Possibly.

THANK YOU!

[Hobbit Frodo]

And well spotted on the Culebeth....no wonder I couldn't find them when I looked in Ancestry under the proper spelling 

[genjen]

Ind means that she was living on independent means, so not relying on the parish or any other source for her income.

Jen