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Are any Staffordshire marriages online?
I'm looking for the marriage of Ellen/Eleanor Shaul to ? Poulson (1828-1834) and her remarriage to Joseph Lea - given, without sources as 1840 on various Ancestry trees.
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FMP has Archibald Poulson / Ellen Shawl 1833 St Peter Ad Vincula, Stoke on Trent. There is an image but I haven't viewed it.
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And FMP has two Archibald Poulston burials listed in 1836 - one Walsall with no age stated and one Bloxwich, age 48. They also have an Edward Archibald Poulston burial in Bloxwich in 1836, age 48, so probably the same burial as the Archibald one. Again, this is just from the free search.
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FamilySearch has an Edward Poulson marrying Ann Taylor 30 Sep 1861 Rushall, Staffs, age 27, father's name Edward Archibald Poulson. FMP has the image. But I haven't found his baptism yet to see whether his mother was Ellen.
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Ah yes, I see - on the 1851 census Edward's mother is Eleanor Lea, and on the 1841 census he is with Joseph and Ellen. But I suppose we still don't know for sure that the Edward Archibald Poulston who died in 1836 was Ellen's husband and not some other relative.
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How did I miss that marriage? Worryingly, Ellen describes herself as a spinster, but she's giving Skillings as maiden name for births of Lea children.
And she had Mary Ann Shaul with her in 1841, presumably her daughter. Thanks, Kite!
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Just found this: just a few months before civil registration:
First name(s) Ellen Spouse's age - Last name Poleson County Staffordshire Name note - Country England Marriage year 1837 Record set England Marriages 1538-1973 Marriage date 05 Apr 1837 Category Birth, Marriage, Death & Parish Records Marriage place Walsall Subcategory Parish Marriages Spouse's first name(s) Joseph Collections from England, Great Britain Spouse's last name Lee
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There is a fuller transcription on FreeREG.
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Thanks, Kite! I note that with small children clustering about her, she is still calling herself a spinster.
It's difficult to be sure, but it looks as if Mary Ann was deaf from birth, was in the workhouse, and died there in 1853. The death gives the age of a Mary Shawle aged 19, and the 1851 shows her as aged 22, born London, but it's possible if she were in and out of the workhouse, they might have misheard her details. I'm still struggling to work out how a young widow with a small child got herself from Norfolk to Staffordshire some time between 1828 and 1833.
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