On 27/05/2013 22:29, Roger Mills wrote: > On 27/05/2013 21:09, brightside S9 wrote: >> I (and a couple of distant relations) have struggled for many years >> trying to find the death of a Dinah Wool(l)ey. Born Dinah Lenton in >> 1831. >> >> She married Matthew Lemon Woolley at Gretton parish Northamptonshire >> on 31/10/1853 and had several children. >> Freereg will find that marriage with >> name - Matthew Lemon WOOLLEY (note the double L) >> parish - Gretton >> county - Northamptonshire. >> and GRO DEC 1853 LENTON Dinah Uppingham 7a 575 >> >> She can be found in 1861 census. >> >> Her last born child (AFAICT) can be found in Freebmd >> GRO JUN 1863 WOOLLEY Phoebe Lenton Uppingham 7a 279 >> (note the spelling of Phoebe and the double L). >> So 2nd qtr 1863 is the last indication that Dinah *is* still alive. >> >> The baptism of this last child, on 8/12/1868, can be found Freereg. >> name - Phebe WOOLEY (note the spelling of Phebe and the single L). >> parish - Gretton >> county - Northamptonshire >> >> This baptism records the parents as Dinah and Matthew. There is no >> note to say that Dinah is deceased ( I have the microfiche for >> Gretton parish BMDs and there is no margin note). So DEC 1868 is the >> last indication that Dinah *may* still be alive. >> >> The next piece of information I have is that Matthew Lemon Woo(l)ley >> remarries in 1870 to a Caroline INGRAM. >> GRO SEP 1870 INGRAM Caroline Uppingham 7a 451 >> and the marriage can be found in Freereg >> name - Matthew Lemon WOOLEY (note the single L) >> parish - Gretton >> county - Northamptonshire >> Here the grooms condition is *Widower*. >> >> So this tells me that Dinah is no *longer* alive. >> >> The mariages and births are all in a small village of Gretton and that >> seems to me to rule out anything suspicious. However I cannot find >> any information about Dinah Wool(l)ey's death or a burial. >> >> Can anyone find out when Dinah WOOL(L)ey died? Any clues would be >> welcome. Thanks. >> > > How about this for a theory . . . > > She died in childbirth when Phoebe was born - which may explain the long > delay before the child was baptised. > > The GRO cocked up transcribing the local records, and recorded the death > as: > WADDS, Dinah Ann Uppingham Apr-May-Jun 1863 7A/191 > > May not be right, but it's the best I can do at this time of night. [I > haven't checked whether there was a real Dinah Wadds who may have died > then!] On further checking, it appears that there *was* a real Dinah Ann Wadds, who was born in the first quarter of 1863, and died in the second quarter, poor thing! So bang goes my query. Nevertheless, your Dinah Woolley *must* have died at some time or other - she'd be pretty old if she were still alive today! So, unless she died in another country not covered by UK records, the chances are that her name has been mis-transcribed in some way - so it's worth trying to think of as many ways as possible in which Woolley could be misconstrued - not just the obvious variants which FindMyPast etc. look for. The other possibility is that she married again - probably bigamously if Matthew was still around - and was using a different surname when she died. -- Cheers, Roger ____________ Please reply to Newsgroup. Whilst email address is valid, it is seldom checked.