Mary Spencer, Balbriggan & Nottinghamshire?

[Anne Chan]

Yes, I'm 99% sure that 'my' Francis is the one who married Caroline Cassaday, and they seem to have had 6 children. After Caroline's death I believe that Francis went to Balbriggan (because of the renowned hosiery factories there) with most of his children and his 2 widowed brothers (Arthur b1832 and William b1835). Several of these (including Francis jun b1846 - to add to confusion!) married local people, then stayed in Balbriggan, emigrated to the US or moved back to Notts.
I have learnt quite a lot about these people, but Mary continues to elude me. A Sutton burial in 1899 of Mary Spencer, age 61, looked promising, but this Mary appears to be the one married to Charles. 

[Anne Chan]

Thank you so very much, Sinann and dathai, for your helpful comments. These do make the 1901 census entry I found seem more plausible, and Hardy to be the more likely option.

I  was really keen to look at the image of the 1909 death certificate, but the computer just kept producing a 'not found' message - not sure whether it is my computer or a temporary problem with the website - very frustrating!  I don't suppose you could give me any more details of what you found, please?

[Sinann]

Irish Genealogy Site has been having problems all day
http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=768985.new;topicseen#new

[Anne Chan]

Thanks, Sinann, will try again tomorrow.

[spades]

Moderator comment: To save duplication of research could members please post only on this identical topic on the Nottinghamshire board.

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Spades

[larkspur]

dathai, those links are submitted family tree's.....we all know how reliable they can be 

There are no baptisms on the NFHS cd for the children.
Have you traced Francis on the census' after 1861?

Ok it appears Dathai has posted Marys death on the other post.......
"She appears to have died 1909 at the hospice Camden Row"
https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/deaths_returns/deaths_1909/05472/4531518.pdf

[dathai]

From memory the 1909 death for Mary Spencer at Hospice Camden Row said widow wife of hosier Balbriggan informant inmate of Hospice.

[Anne Chan]

Thank you very much for that, dathai.  I am so excited to think that I have found Mary's death at last - and most frustrated at still not being able to see the image.  I hadn't realised that you can now see the images online - had previously bought copy certificates. 

With an approximate birth date (consistent with that on the 1901 census) I have a better chance of finding her in earlier English censuses, and her birth. I do wonder, with such a wide age gap, whether it was a 2nd marriage for Mary too?