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!] -- Cheers, Roger ____________ Please reply to Newsgroup. Whilst email address is valid, it is seldom checked.