From: Self <roy.stockdill@btinternet.com> > From: brightside S9 <address@replyto_is_not.invalid> > > > 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.> A somewhat annoying family, these Lentons! I have found Dinah Lenton in 1841 and 1851, in 1841 living with her parents Thomas & Mary Lenton (both b 1794 or about) and four siblings - Allen 26, Jonathan 12, Ephraim 6 and Amos 4 - at Gretton. In 1851 Thomas & Mary and Allen, Ephraim and Amos were still at Gretton but Dinah was with her sister and brother-in-law Henry Dorman who married Elizabeth (Betsy) Lenton at Uppingham in 1848. They were at Hog Hill, Uppingham. I then find Dinah as Dinah Wooley with Mathew and 5 children at Gretton in 1861, her two youngest being Ephraim and Amos, aged 3 and 1, no doubt named after her brothers. But can I find any trace of Ephraim Lenton senior after 1851 - no, I cannot! I can find no marriage, death or an immigration record for him. He disappears into thin air, like Dinah later! The only Ephraim Lenton I can find after 1851 is an Ephraim Lenton, son of Amos, who was born in 1865, married at Uppingham in 1886 to (I think) Elizabeth Warner and died at Kettering in 1917, aged 51. This Ephraim Lenton appears to have been a bit of a bad lot, since there are TEN reports for him in the British Newspapers records on Findmypast for being involved in various petty crimes. But what happened to Ephraim Lenton senior, his uncle and Dinah's brother? Anyone else done any better? -- Roy Stockdill Genealogical researcher, writer & lecturer Famous family trees blog: http://blog.findmypast.co.uk/tag/roy-stockdill/ "There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about." OSCAR WILDE