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Frances Dowell (1826-1867)

Individual Events and Attributes

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1826, Register Entry for Baptism of Frances Dowell

  • Birth:

  • Aug 1826

  • Warwick, Warwickshire1

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  • Address: Old-Pound

    As it was normal practice was to baptise children shortly after their birth she was probably born in late August or early September

  • Baptism:

  • 17 Sep 1826 (age 0)

  • St Mary's Church1

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  • Address: Warwick

    As her parents names are recorded in the Baptismal Register it is assumed that they were present. Her older siblings Hezekiah was probably there but who else was present is not known.

  • Present (sibling):

  • 31 Jan 1836 (age 9)

  • Present at Baptism of her brother Thomas

  • Child:

  • 14 Feb 1836 (age 9)

  • Present at Burial of her mother Esther

  • Present (sibling):

  • 21 Feb 1836 (age 9)

  • Present at the burial of her brother Thomas

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  • Thomas' father and other surviving siblings Hezekiah and Harriet were probably there.

  • Census:

  • 30 Mar 1851 (age 24)

  • Islington, Middlesex2

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  • Address: 31 St Mary's Road

    The household consisted of Sarah Hoyer who is shown as being of independent means an her seven childen aged between 19 and 4. The only other servant was a cook so it must have been hard work for Frances. She had probably left Warwick in search of work — probably at the behest of her older brother Hezekiah who had moved to London sometime prior to his marriage in 1839 and was also living in Islington.

  • Death:

  • 1867 (age 40-41)

  • Hackney, London3

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  • As her death was registered in the first quarter of 1867 she may have died at the end of 1866

Marriage

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1856, Register Entry for Marriage of Henry Young and Frances Dowell

  • Spouse:

  • Henry Young ( - )

  • Marriage Banns:

  • 2 Mar 1856 (age 29)

  • St James Church, Holloway4

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  • Address: Islington, Middlesex

    This was for Henry as Frances lived in the Parish of Stoke Newington.

  • Marriage:

  • 21 Mar 1856 (age 29)

  • the Parish Church of St Mary5

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  • Address: Stoke Newington, Middlesex

    The relationship of Edward Milton to the couple is not known - probably he was a friend of the groom. Mary Young was probably a sister of the groom. Who else was at the service is not known but it is possible that it was attended by the groom's family and bride's brother Hezekiah and his family who were living in Islington. It is unlikely that the Bride's father who lived in Warwick would have made the journey to attend and it is thought that her mother was dead.

  • Census for household (not recorded):

  • 7 Apr 1861 (age 34)

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Sources

1.

Rev. C. E. Carles, St Mary's Church, Warwick, Warwickshire. Register Entry for the Baptism of Frances Dowell, (Warwickshire Anglican Registers; Roll: Engl/2/1250; Document Reference: DR 447). Custom Id: Baptisms 1826, Page 20, No. 153; Cit. Date: 17 September 1826. Warwickshire County Records Office, Priory Park, Cape Road. Tel: 01926 738959.

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1851 Census for Frances Dowell in Household of Sarah M Hayer, (Ancestry 1851 England Census HO107/1502, Folio: 444, Page: 14, Household Schedule No: 31). Custom Id: HO107/1502, Folio 444, Page 14, Schedule 31; Cit. Date: 30 March 1851. National Archives.

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General Register Office, Civil Registration Index (England &Wales) for Death of Frances Young, (FreeBMD website). Custom Id: Deaths 1867 Q1 Hackney Volume 1b Page 323; Cit. Date: Q1 1867. General Register Office.

4.

Parish Register for Banns of Henry Young and Frances Dowell, St James Church, Holloway, Islington, Middlesex, 2 March 1856, London Metropolitan Archives.

5.

Rev. William Bullock, Register Entry for Marriage of Henry Young and Frances Dowell, (Ancestry website). Custom Id: Marriages 1856, Page -, No. 466; Cit. Date: Q4 1844. London Metropolitan Archives.