Completed My Visit to Cambridgeshire County Record Office - will do simple Look-ups

[Keith Sherwood]

Marlene,
I hope by the term "flutter" you aren't referring to a sizeable bet you might have had on the All Blacks to trounce Wales, by any chance...
Never mind Fairy's, though, the Irish are going to need every Leprechaun they can get on their side for when they play NZ next...
And what's all this got to do with family history look-ups at the CCRO? - we'll get told off by the Powers-That-Be.
Keith

[Dale]

We've had an All Black in the family and his daughter was an Olympic  gold medallist rower as was her husband!
So definitely family history! If not Cambridge! Although when I think of it .. plenty of rowers there - maybe in the genes!
Cheers
Marlene

[Keith Sherwood]

Hi, Marlene,
That's an impressive sporting lineage! My dad played for a London rugby club called the Saracens ( as did his brother), and he ran at the White City, but nothing as illustrious as your family.  Maybe we should start a thread on famous sporting Rootschatters' ancestors...
Keith

[Dale]

Great idea! Famous anything might be fun!Except in  my case Sonia has not long had a baby and her Dad ain't exactly over the hill!!
Wonder what the olds would think???
Cheers
Marlene

[bedfordshire boy]

Hi Keith

Next time you're in the vicinity could you kindly have a look for any of the following

Lt Gransden 1826 chr Jane Wright. There may not be a
                     father.

East Hatley
marriage 30 Oct 1787 William Merrill / Elizabeth Dilly. Parish
               of ? or botp
               28 Feb 1788 William Carter / Elizabeth Merrill
               Parish of ?  Witnesses?
Burials    27 May 1770 Thomas Merrill
                7 Jan 1784 Katherine Merrill
                7 May 1808 Thomas Merrill

Croydon
Burial 1812 William Carter 55 of East Hatley

Eltisley
Burial 1832 Edward Revel 41 of St Neots – any other detail?

No rush. At your convenience.

Many thanks

Christmas seems to start earlier each year. Carcassonne is full of Fairy lights.

David

[Keith Sherwood]

Back to business with a bang, David,
I'll look those up next time I go to CCRO - might possibly be tomorrow, but more likely it will be next week though my mother comes up for a few days next Thursday to celebrate her 80th birthday...
Keith

[Keith Sherwood]

David,
I managed to seize a window of opportunity today (as they say) and ran up the hill to Shire Hall and the CCRO (v. busy week)
In Little Gransden I looked in the original baptism register and discovered a double entry for 3rd July 1826:
Jane, baseborn dr. of Ann SPARKES, now WRIGHT of Little Gransden
and: Mary Ann dr. of Thomas, farmer, and Ann WRIGHT.

Earlier I had found a marriage in the transcripts that said:
13-12-1825: Marriage between Thomas WRIGHT and Ann SPARKS w. of Long Stow. (I presume w. meant widow)

These above entries might well clear up a family conundrum...

East Hartley entries: Marriage 28-02-1788 (in the old calendar this would have been the year 1787/8) William CARTER bac. ,farmer, and Elizabeth MERRILL spinster b.o.t.p. Witnesses: Joseph Parker and Thomas Abbott
Burials: 27-05-1770: Thos. MERRIL son of Thomas, farmer, and Catharine
07-01-1784: Catherine (sic) MERRIL wife of Thos.,farmer
07-07-1808: Thomas MERILL, farmer, aged 80

The Croydon burial had no date, only the year 1812 for William CARTER of East Hatley, 55; neither did the next burial entry - the next one that did was for 26th Sept. 1812. (i.e. the closest to being able to date your entry would be to say that it occurred before Sept. 26th 1812)

The Eltisley burial was the jewel in the crown:
13-05-1832: Edward REVEL, Monk's Hardwick, St Neots, 41 (run over by his team)

I know what the vicar meant, but it sounds as though the goal celebrations on Match of the Day got seriously out of hand...
Keith

[bedfordshire boy]

Brilliant Keith, thanks very much.

Loved the Eltisley United entry! They obviously weren't Fairys (but with a certain match coming up this weekend I fear that we should be keeping a low profile!)

The Lt Gransden entries are intriguing. I knew that Jane, who was my gg grandmother, was illegitimate but I didn't know that Wright was her mother's post birth married name, so assume that Thomas Wright may well have been the father. Needs more investigation. According to the censuses she was probably born in 1822/3, so it's going to be an interesting exercise to find out when Mr Sparkes died. Just when I was expecting a straightforward illegitimacy I get a complex one, but at least with the possibility of finding an unexpected 3xg grandfather.

Don't forget - teams can be fatal.

Thanks for making my day

David

[Keith Sherwood]

David,
Yes I definitely raised a chuckle when I read that Eltisley burial entry.  Though there was another similar entry for a few years later on the same page (not your family, but maybe the same team of wild horses!).
However, I read the double baptism as maybe Jane's father not necessarily being a Mr Sparkes; that Sparkes was Ann's family name, and perhaps the surname of Jane's father was not known.  When Thomas Wright married Ann Sparkes we have no idea (unless you do) of how old her daughter Jane was in 1825.  (A bit of a gap between birth and baptism - sometimes several years - has thrown me in the past)
I suppose the double baptism sort of bonded the family together...
Very best wishes,
keith