It may be my brains not working as I'm bunged up with the cold but I'm really struggling with this family.
Catharine Benson married George Alfred Hodson on 15 Sep 1815 at St Nicholas Bristol.
Bristol Records Office have checked the parish register and the licence bond for me, but they contradict each other.
Parish entry says they are both single
Licence Bond says Catharine is a widow.
George is a Music Master (which is the confirmation I was after that they are mine)
Witnesses are W Battiscombe, E Battiscombe and P Benson.
From various references on Gale and google books I believe Catharine is the daughter of Robert Benson an actor/playwrite at the Theatre Royal Covent Garden who committed suicide in 1796.
Notices of his death and fundraisers afterwards give his [arents as the Bensons who ran Garraways Coffee House in at Change Alley, Cornhill London.
His wife is Susannah Satchell
I have found a birth for another child Peter Robert Benson in Edinburgh in 1795 but obits and reports suggest there were 3 or 4 children.
So I have downloaded a few Wills but I just cannot find the Bensons anywhere.
Will of Thomas Benson written 1794
(father of Robert Benson)
names his wife Elizabeth Benson
also Ann Collins of Werton Covells (???) in Cambridgeshire
Will of Thomas Benson of Garraways Coffee House 1824
(brother to Robert Benson)
names:
wife Anna Benson
brother Charles Benson
sister Hannah Coy wife of William Coy
Unnamed Benson, wife of brother David Benson (for some reason he doesn't seem to know the name of his sister in law) and their children who are also unnamed
Nephew John Robert Benson son of my late brother Robert Benson and Susannah his wife
Niece Catherine Mary Hodson daughter of my late brother Robert Benson and Susannah his wife
(at least I think it says Hodson - I'll post the image for opinions)
Please help, I've been going round in circles for hours getting nowhere
Zoe
Catharine Benson married George Alfred Hodson on 15 Sep 1815 at St Nicholas Bristol.
Bristol Records Office have checked the parish register and the licence bond for me, but they contradict each other.
Parish entry says they are both single
Licence Bond says Catharine is a widow.
George is a Music Master (which is the confirmation I was after that they are mine)
Witnesses are W Battiscombe, E Battiscombe and P Benson.
From various references on Gale and google books I believe Catharine is the daughter of Robert Benson an actor/playwrite at the Theatre Royal Covent Garden who committed suicide in 1796.
Notices of his death and fundraisers afterwards give his [arents as the Bensons who ran Garraways Coffee House in at Change Alley, Cornhill London.
His wife is Susannah Satchell
I have found a birth for another child Peter Robert Benson in Edinburgh in 1795 but obits and reports suggest there were 3 or 4 children.
So I have downloaded a few Wills but I just cannot find the Bensons anywhere.
Will of Thomas Benson written 1794
(father of Robert Benson)
names his wife Elizabeth Benson
also Ann Collins of Werton Covells (???) in Cambridgeshire
Will of Thomas Benson of Garraways Coffee House 1824
(brother to Robert Benson)
names:
wife Anna Benson
brother Charles Benson
sister Hannah Coy wife of William Coy
Unnamed Benson, wife of brother David Benson (for some reason he doesn't seem to know the name of his sister in law) and their children who are also unnamed
Nephew John Robert Benson son of my late brother Robert Benson and Susannah his wife
Niece Catherine Mary Hodson daughter of my late brother Robert Benson and Susannah his wife
(at least I think it says Hodson - I'll post the image for opinions)
Please help, I've been going round in circles for hours getting nowhere
Zoe
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