On 28/05/2013 21:14, roy.stockdill@btinternet.com wrote: > 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. >> >> -- >> brightside S9> > > Have you seen that there is a death in the GRO death indexes (FreeBMD and > Findmypast) in the June quarter of 1865 at Peterborough of a WOOLLEY Female > (unnamed) , vol 3b page 143? Could it just possibly be that this was your > Dinah? > > Gretton is not far from Peterborough and Peterborough registration district > probably came fairly close to Gretton. The fact that this female who died was > unnamed suggests she may have died either in hospital or a workhouse and nobody > knew her full name. Perhaps she had left her husband? > > I note her daughter Phoebe was born in 1863 but not baptised until 1868. The > fact that the baptismal record didn't say her mother was deceased is not proof > that she wasn't. > > I think I might just be tempted to get that death certificate but it's up to > you. > > It's possible. I've tended to think of "unamed" as referring to a new baby who hadn't been given a name. Pity they didn't record the age at death in those days! Are there any statistics which show what proportion of "unnameds" are *not* young babies? -- Cheers, Roger ____________ Please reply to Newsgroup. Whilst email address is valid, it is seldom checked.