This is another rabbit hole side branch of my tree that I went down earlier this week. I know some of you are great at researching so any help you can offer would be much appreciated.
Thomas and Ann Savage.jpg
I originally found the children in the 1841 census https://www.findmypast.co.uk/transcr...841/0005516119 They are without their parents and the oldest child, Mary, was listed as a pauper .
1841 census.jpg
Mary |Savage |Female |18 |1823 |Wiltshire, England
Elizabeth |Savage |Female |10 |1831 |Wiltshire, England
Eliza |Savage |Female |15 |1826 |Wiltshire, England
Morris |Savage |Male |10 |1831 |Wiltshire, England
Jane |Savage |Female |5 |1836 |Wiltshire, England
Ann |Savage |Female |8 |1833 |Wiltshire, England
Thomas |Savage |Male |4 |1837 |Wiltshire, England
From here I found a string of baptisms in the Parish Registers for Wootten Rivers in Wiltshire which gave me some conflicting dates. I had Thomas baptised 1827 and for Elizabeth I had 1829. After a bit more digging I found that there was a Thomas born in 1827 who subsequently died and a later child was also called Thomas. Now known as Thomas 1 and Thomas 2 in my tree.
But I haven't found an explanation for Elizabeth b 1831 but baptised 1829. Do you think this could just be a mistake made by her older sister, Mary, when filling in the census? I guess it was a huge responsibility for a young girl, possibly not well educated, to give all those names and dates to the enumerator. Or does the census say Elizabeth was 16? I'm also curious that she was given her mother's maiden name as a second name - I wonder why the first child wasn't given that name.
I also have a Hannah from the baptisms (baptised the same day as Mary) but she isn't on the 1841 census and I haven't found her anywhere else either.
Thomas and Ann Savage family.jpg
So any thoughts about Elizabeth? or Hannah? or anything else?
Thomas and Ann Savage.jpg
I originally found the children in the 1841 census https://www.findmypast.co.uk/transcr...841/0005516119 They are without their parents and the oldest child, Mary, was listed as a pauper .
1841 census.jpg
Mary |Savage |Female |18 |1823 |Wiltshire, England
Elizabeth |Savage |Female |10 |1831 |Wiltshire, England
Eliza |Savage |Female |15 |1826 |Wiltshire, England
Morris |Savage |Male |10 |1831 |Wiltshire, England
Jane |Savage |Female |5 |1836 |Wiltshire, England
Ann |Savage |Female |8 |1833 |Wiltshire, England
Thomas |Savage |Male |4 |1837 |Wiltshire, England
From here I found a string of baptisms in the Parish Registers for Wootten Rivers in Wiltshire which gave me some conflicting dates. I had Thomas baptised 1827 and for Elizabeth I had 1829. After a bit more digging I found that there was a Thomas born in 1827 who subsequently died and a later child was also called Thomas. Now known as Thomas 1 and Thomas 2 in my tree.
But I haven't found an explanation for Elizabeth b 1831 but baptised 1829. Do you think this could just be a mistake made by her older sister, Mary, when filling in the census? I guess it was a huge responsibility for a young girl, possibly not well educated, to give all those names and dates to the enumerator. Or does the census say Elizabeth was 16? I'm also curious that she was given her mother's maiden name as a second name - I wonder why the first child wasn't given that name.
I also have a Hannah from the baptisms (baptised the same day as Mary) but she isn't on the 1841 census and I haven't found her anywhere else either.
Thomas and Ann Savage family.jpg
So any thoughts about Elizabeth? or Hannah? or anything else?
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