A British woman marries a French captain. What happened next? [EDITED]

[trish1120]

I'm a bit confused here;

So who was this Frances?

Marriage FreeBMD 1858 Frances PETCH/George CROSS on same page.

FreeREG has the Marriage;
05 May 1858 St Margaret, Laceby
George CROSS, Full Age, Bachelor, Labourer, Father EDWARD a Labourer
Lacfrances PETCH, Full Age, Spinster, Father WILLIAM Petch a Gardener**
Witnesses, William Petch/Eliza Cross

1851 as you say Frances is Fanny Petch, living with her Parents.

1861/1871/1881 Frances CROSS is born c 1831 Laceby

1891 the Family appears to be in Canada

Trish

[trish1120]

Frances Louisa Petch
   
Baptism, 08 Jan 1834
Calais and St Omer, France
Father's Name:   
William Heath Petch
Mother's Name:   
Eliza

So looks to me 2 different Families;

FRANCIS Petch Bapt 17 Nov 1838 Laceby to WILLIAM/ELIZABETH
They also Bapt;
ANN    02 Oct 1818
MARY 30 Jul 1820
ELIZABETH 12 Jul 1821
ELIZA 25 Apr 1824
CAROLINE 09 Sep 1827
FRANCES 13 Feb 1831*****
WILLIAM 24 Jan 1836
Then Francis 1838***

William PETCH married Elizabeth RICHARDSON 23 Oct 1817 St Margaret, Laceby


William Heath PETCH married Eliza PHILLIPS 29 June 1822, St. Bride Fleet Street, London

[trish1120]

Frederick William Petch
Birth Date:   28 Jul 1831
Baptism Date:   30 Apr 1832, Old Church, Saint Pancras, London
Father:   William Heath Petch
Mother:   Eliza
Image has WHP as a Clerk in the Customs House***
Address Keppell St

Also to William/Eliza St Pancras;
ISABELLA Petch Bapt    14 Jan 1826, Birth 16 Dec 1825
Father a Customs Clerk***

[Lalzovi]

Goodness me - thank you all so much for the correction. A huge error on my part!!

I'll make the necessary changes and sort out the mess. William Heath Petch of Fleet Street is actually likely an ancestral cousin of my London Heaths and Petches anyway so I'll have to figure both families out.

Terribly sorry to have wasted your time...

[trish1120]

Isabella married 1849, Daug of Mrs William Heath Petch, Albany St, Regents Park
Spouse The Marquis de la Fare.
Granddaughter of Richard Phillips

Death 1833  At Bloomsbury-sq. aged 38, William Heath Petch, esq. of the Custom-house.


Entries Gentlemans  Magazine, found by googling William Heath Petch

[trish1120]

Your welcome and it was no waste of time, I enjoyed the chase

Look at FreeREG.

I think Williams Bapt is mistranscribed;
HILLWOLLEY Petch 14 Jan 1792 St James, Louth to HILL/AMELIA (WILLIAM ??)
Siblings;
ELIZABETH Petch 26 Aug 1790   
HENRY PHILLIPSON Petch 06 May 1798

I think the other WILLIAM Petch was Bapt Laceby 23 Sep 1793 to JAMES/ANN

Amelia is on the 1841 Census born c 1768 living in Islington.

Trish

[Lalzovi]

Thanks - I've figured it out now. It was a case of having the right names and the wrong censuses attached on FamilySearch. With both Williams having been born in Lincolnshire and Frances' last known date in England corresponding to Francoise's marriage I had failed to see the discrepancy at first.

William Heath Petch remains the first cousin of my direct ancestors so my interest in the story of Francoise still stands.

[trish1120]

Good luck with it all

[jayaygee]

Sorry to be a bit of a wet blanket, but I don't think you necessarily had to do anything particularly outstanding to be awarded the Légion d'Honneur at least in those days.  I say that based on the fact that three of my husband's ancestors also got it: two after retiring from the army and the navy, before WW1, and the other, later, for gallantry during WW1.  And another in a side line was a teacher.

The Archives de Paris hold civil registration records from 1860 - those of earlier years were destroyed by fire and have been partially reconstituted. See:
http://archives.paris.fr/r/124/etat-civil-de-paris/
Batignolles was outside Paris until 1860 when it became part of the new 17th arrondissement.

Civil registration for Lyon is held at the Archives de Lyon:
http://www.fondsenligne.archives-lyon.fr/ac69v2/genealogie.php?mode=1

Judith