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. -- 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