Possible lookups for Morpeth 1761 and 1767

[tomwdcraftr]

Thanks Christine!!

That would be great!! 

Typically, I would guess travellers wouldn't have had a chance at much schooling.

I notice some trees at ancestry show my Robert Todd as son of Robert Todd and Elizabeth Hunter, but hard to know if there's more evidence for that? Some show my Robert Todd and also show a Barbara Todd born 1763, and a Thomas Todd born 1765 as children of Robert Todd and Elizabeth Hunter.

I see one tree attributes a Robert Todd who died 1796 who's wife was a Jane Lytle as the son of Robert Todd and Elizabeth Hunter.

Thanks!!  Tom

[c-side]

Well, I'm not so sure as I was before.  Certainly the writing is different to the rest of the record and there is no cross used as a mark but, looking at the record as a whole, it would appear that one person has scrawled (literally!) the main body of the record, including the dates of the banns, and someone else has written in the 'signatures' of the bride and groom.  The handwriting used in both 'signatures' could well be the same though the bride did make her mark on the record.  Both witnesses signed for themselves.

So it's possible that this Robert could not write but, for some reason, didn't make his mark.

Not very helpful I'm afraid 

Christine

[tomwdcraftr]

Thanks so much Christine!!

I appreciate your kindness in looking at the record!! I know a lot of early records are a bit hard to figure out for sure.

Thanks!!  Tom

[tomwdcraftr]

Brief update.  I found my 3X Great Grandmother's death notice at the findmypast website today. From a newspaper: The Newcastle Guardian; February 29, 1848
Death Notice
"At Alnwick, 17th Feb 1848 Aged 84, Isabella, widow of Robert Todd, hawker of earthenware."
This is within the area they traveled around Northumberland, England and I know Robert sold pottery and earthenware. She was born Isabel/Isabella Anderson.

[SelDen]

Great news Tom.

Should you wish to get her death certificate, www.freebmd.org.uk gives the reference:
Isabella Todd registration district Alnwick,  registered March quarter 1848, volume 25 page 196.

Much easier to pick out from all the other possibilities when you have already found such an informative notice in the paper.

Apologies if you already knew this, but you can use this reference to order the certificate online from the General Register Office
https://www.gro.gov.uk/gro/content/certificates/

The same link will tell you what information you get on death certificates, in the FAQs. The newspaper notice gives you much of it, but the certificate should also tell you cause of death (though could well just say 'old age' or something similar) and who the informant was.

[tomwdcraftr]

Thanks SelDen!!  I'll take a look at the possibility of ordering that.

Thanks!!  Tom

[tomwdcraftr]

I know this is different than the death record, but I did find the burial record for Isabella Todd at familysearh, by browsing the Alnwick records. It showed Isabella Todd, abode of Bondgate, buried 21 Feb 1848; 84 years old; Ceremony performed by Curt Granville, Incumbent.

Tom McMillan