Rose Hannah Morgan (Week 4 - MMMFM)
 

Name - "official" name and what they were known as

Rose Hannah or Roseanna (etc etc) Morgan

Date and place of birth

About 1790 at Shiplake, Oxfordshire

Names of parents

William Morgan (labourer) and unknown

Date and place of baptism - if applicable

Unknown

Details of each of his or her marriages - if any

1) 21st July 1811 at St Peter's, Caversham, Oxfordshire to John Wells, labourer (my 3xg-gf)

2) 11th Nov 1849 at St Mary's, Reading, Berkshire to John Harris, brewer

Occupation(s) - if any

None

Addresses where they lived (including county if in UK) - and please list which censuses you have or haven't found him/her on (if s/he lived in census times!).

1841: Warren Place, Reading, Berkshire

1851: 2 Early Yard, Reading, Berkshire

1861: 89 Chatham Street, Reading, Berkshire

Date, place and cause of death

9th March 1862 at 89 Chatham Street, Reading, Berkshire of apoplexy (11 days)

Date and place of burial.

Unknown

Details of will / administration of their estate - if applicable

Not likely

Memorial inscription - if any

Unknown

This looks like her burial at St Peter Caversham (though the age is a bit out), Roseanna Harris age 75 bur 16 Mar 1862 abode St Mary, Reading.

Thanks very much, Jill. Perhaps she was buried with her first husband as he was interred there about 20 years earlier.

Do you have the names of the witnesses from her marriages, particularly the first one?

I got the first marriage from a CD of PR transcripts sold by the Oxon FHS. Sadly, there are no details of any marriage witnesses for the time period in question.

The witnesses to the second marriage are Thomas and Rebecca Allaway. Rebecca was Rose Hannah's daughter and Thomas was Rebecca's husband.

Oooh, I've just found that all the marriages are listed twice on the CD! The first time they give all the info except the witnesses and the second time all the same info again, with the witnesses!

So, they are Richard Titcomb(e) and James Swain. James Swain is a serial witness.

This is the only ref to anyone called Titcomb(e) in the whole of the Caversham PRs up to 1890 (I just checked all the indexes)

Hmm, there aren't many Richard Titcomb(e)s around, but on the 1851 census there is one in Reading who is age 66 born Cholsey Berks, with a wife Jane also 66 born Oxon Binfield. And Wikipedia says there is a village called Binfield Heath in the civil parish of Shiplake! Do you think Jane could be Rose Hannah's sister?

(Edit - if you want to find those Titcombs in 1841 ancestry has them as Witcomb.)

Bother, I found their marriage on the pilot site and she was Jane Sexton and they got married in 1814, years after Rose Hannah's wedding, anyway!

Thanks for trying Kate. It's really annoying when you feel certain something is going to turn out to be connected, but it doesn't!