Christopher Todd - Durham died 1850 St Brandon

[Gadget]

What were the names of the sisters on the headstone?

[squinn5]

all good thanks.

George's baptism is 1796 so I would suspect that would be her last child if the baptism is correct for her in 1752 - would make her 44.

[Millmoor]

Hi

Christopher Todd born 1782 and Robert Todd b 1780 seem to have both married daughters of Anthony Apedaile - Christopher to Ann and Robert to Isabella. (both marriages in Auckland St Andrew in 1800).

If the Christopher Todd who died in 1847 did so in Byers Green he left a will. If the Robert Todd is the one who died in Willington there is an administration bond for him. Both can be accessed on the North East Inheritance Database..

William

[squinn5]

Both can be accessed on the North East Inheritance Database..

William

Hi Thanks, am looking at the will of Christopher Todd now - throughs out a few more questions than it answers...he mention's his wife Dorothy (probably why I find a Christopher Todd living with a Dorothy in 1841). Also some children in the will that isn't in any of the trees' I found for Christopher & Ann.

More work to figure this out...

[Millmoor]

You might also find it useful, if you have not already done so, to use the Bishop of Durham's Transcripts on Familysearch. At present there are only 127 images for Auckland St Andrew if you access from  search records. However you can access them right up to 1851 if you find them using their catalogue: type Auckland St Andrew in the search box, click on church records and then from the list given click on Bishop's Transcripts. Scroll down until you see a camera symbol, click on it and you then have access to over 1,000 images for the parish. It is a bit fiddly but would enable you to see what a lot of the transcribers elsewhere have been transcribing from.

William

[Millmoor]

Just a thought might Christopher have remarried? There is a marriage for a Christopher Todd Jul- Sep 1840 in Auckland - one of the possible spouses is Dorothy Black.

William

Added: the Durham County Council Civil Registration Indexes give the names of spouses in their marriage indexes. A  Christopher Todd did marry Dorothy Black in 1840.

[Gadget]

The Christopher who died in 1848, buried Auckland, was aged 64 - so born circa 1784. (Added - GRO has him as 66)

Also, the Christopher in Chelsea in 1851 gives his birthplace as Brompton, Middlesex.

[Millmoor]

Just looked at the gravestone on Findagrave - it does look more like 1850 to me but I can also see that it could be 1856!

From the new gro indexes there is no death for a Christopher Todd in 1850 but there is one in 1856...and it is in St Luke Chelsea in the Jan - Mar quarter and his age at death was 52. This Christopher Todd also left a will - it is in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury Wills which you can access on Ancestry. There are lots of references to co Durham in it - including "my brother Robert of Willington in co Durham".  He also refers to his mother Isabella Todd. I think this is your man!

Just to add there is a George Todd living in Chelsea in 1851 - born co Durham 1820 with wife Mary and children Christopher and Ann ( Think this could be the George who is named as son in the 1847 will of Christopher Todd, Byers Green- he was baptized in Auckland St Andrew in 1820).

William

[Gadget]

I've been doing the same and have played with it in Photoshop. It says that he was buried in Brompton Cemetery in London. Aged 52 in 1850 

I'll see if I can put it up but if I make it small enough, I'll lose the clarity.