James Jefferies (Week 5 - FFFFMF)

[Merry]

There's one in Nov 1804, dau of Thomas and Amy, who might be the right one.

[kiterunner]

Originally Posted by Merry

There must be two Eliz Jefferies if there are two women in 1841.....

Thomas Drake doesn't have a wife with him in 1841; I guess she had died before then. Unfortunately I still haven't got a Bristol burials CD. Which means we don't know when she was born. But her parents are likely to be James and Elizabeth, and I can't see another Elizabeth with those parents. But the way the CD works, I have to either plough through the alphabetical index looking at all the different spellings of Jefferies, or plough through pages and pages of Mangotsfield hoping not to miss one! Also I've got to go and hang washing out now it's stopped raining, but will return to this later. Do you know for sure that your Elizabeth was a spinster when she got married, and do you have the witnesses' names from her marriage?

[kiterunner]

Originally Posted by Merry

There's one in Nov 1804, dau of Thomas and Amy, who might be the right one.

She's listed as Esther on the CD.

[Merry]

The marriage details were sent to me in 2003 by Mike Browning of the Bristol and Avon FHS. I don't know who the witnesses were and I don't know her condition (as he didn;t tell me that presumably because he was working from an index and I have never followed it up), but on her last son's birth cert she is Elizabeth Burchill formerly Jefferies.

Mum will be here soon, so I have to go.

Please don't trawl anything, but I would be interested to know if you can make anything of the Nov 1804 bap (I see Thos and Amy had two children baptised together so one might be older than the other)

[Merry]

Originally Posted by kiterunner

She's listed as Esther on the CD.

Oh, not two then.

[kiterunner]

Ah, the Burchills have a Jane Jeffries age 93, Ind, Y, with them in 1841. Wonder if we can work out who she is?

[Merry]

Goodness, do they?????? *embarrassed* lol

[Merry]

Oooh yes!! I probably haven't looked at that census in years

I wouldn't be against getting her death cert, but it's too early to have the relationship of the informant.

*waits for Kate to tell me who she is*

[Merry]

Just putting down anything I find:

Burial:
13838 JEFFERIES , Jane Abode: Mangotsfield
Buried 5 Jan 1842 aged 95 Parish: Siston

[kiterunner]

There are a couple of possible death registrations in Keynsham district, one Mar 1842 and one Mar 1844. I suppose the (right) death cert should say whose widow she was, if she was a widow, but maybe we can work it out without having to pay up.

Edit - it's the first of those two, then!