Sarah (Mrs Wells)

[Margaret in Burton]

I am very unsure of a lot of the information I have on Sarah and her husband Evan.

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

Sarah - (Unknown)

Date and place of birth

c 1781 in Oxfordshire

Names of parents

Unknown

Date and place of baptism - if applicable

Unknown

Details of each of his or her marriages - if any

c 1800 (in Oxfordshire probably) to Evan Wells

Her husband was from Hook Norton

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!).

Possibly her living with her son Thomas in 1841 in Bull Hill, Chadlington, Oxfordshire

Date, place and cause of death

Unknown - can't find her husbands death either

Date and place of burial.

Unknown

Details of will / administration of their estate - if applicable

Unknown

Memorial inscription - if any

Unknown


Link to son: William Wells

[Merry]

Would it be worth trying the local reg office to see if you can buy/eliminate this cert?

Deaths Mar 1847
Wells Sarah Chipping N 16 43

[Margaret in Burton]

Chipping Norton is the right area BUT that death is on the NBI. It's a woman of 72 years old which would be a year of birth of 1775.

[Merry]

Was she a minor when she married then?

[Margaret in Burton]

Originally Posted by Merry

Was she a minor when she married then?

Well if she married around 1800 and I haven't found the marriage, she would have been 19. I've only found what I believe to be her in 1841, not certain, so her year of birth isn't certain.

I can't find anything on her husband. You'd think Evan Wells would be a bit more distinctive in Oxfordshire given that it's usually a welsh name. He was born c 1783 in Hook Norton. I have his baptism in June 1783.

[Merry]

In that case I think you should ask the registrar to examine the cert to see if that death belongs to the widow of Evan. I hope Evan's name hasn't be changed to John by some English vicar (or the registrar)

[Merry]

I've just realised from your last reply that I had mis-read your orignial post so when I said "was she a minor at marriage?" I wasn't meaning to sound sarcastic lol I thought she WAS married in 1800 and was hoping her being a minor was how you had plumped for a birth of about 1780!!

[Margaret in Burton]

The family weren't welsh but the name Evan crops up a few times in the generations.

I don't know that Evan was dead as I'm not that certain that that was her in 1841.

They just seems to fall off the planet.

[Margaret in Burton]

Originally Posted by Merry

I've just realised from your last reply that I had mis-read your orignial post so when I said "was she a minor at marriage?" I wasn't meaning to sound sarcastic lol I thought she WAS married in 1800 and was hoping her being a minor was how you had plumped for a birth of about 1780!!

No, my only link to her age is that 1841 census that I can't find the ref to at the moment.

The first child I have for them is William born in 1800

[Merry]

I found this transcription

Hook Norton 23 Dec 1803 William Wells s/o Evan & Sarah


here:

http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~we.../oxparish.html