Re: Joseph Stockwell/ Milborne Port
-
In reply to:
Re: Joseph Stockwell/ Milborne Port
ruby dwyer 5/14/04
Thank you for replying to my message.I have looked at the IGI info re Joseph’s siblings – interesting.
I descend from Charlotte Stockwell younger sister of Louisa and Eliza.
Although I have never found her baptism or Catherine House Registration, I know from census, marriage and death that she was born in 1855.Charlotte married Henry Stacey in 1876 and their son Arthur Stacey was my grandfather.
Charlotte’s wedding certificate names her father as being Joseph Stockwell, a sawyer but does not say deceased.On the 1861 – 1881 Caroline Stockwell is shown a widow, so I thought Joseph must have died between 1855 and 1861, however I could not find a death record.Looking closer at the 1851 census I noted Caroline at 28 years was a widow – before my Charlotte was born; curious!Catherine House gave a registration for a Joseph Stockwell who died in Portsea, 1849 so I sent for a certificate. This shows a Joseph Stockwell aged 28, labourer, died of cholera but death informant was Susan Dover rather than Caroline as I would have expected.I still think it quite likely that this is the death of Joseph having died 24th July four months after the baptism of Eliza.
Caroline is shown on the 1881 census living with Charlottein Bath and was mostly likely there when she died in 1891.Please let me know details of her death.
It is really good to compare notes.You are welcome to email me at my home address which is [email protected] would like to learn more about your family.
Linda