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From: Ruth <>
Subject: Re: [ENG-CAMB] Louisa Pleasance LAWRENCE after 1844
Date: Wed, 1 Jun 2005 07:05:57 +0100
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Just to add that "Petty Coy" is almost undoubtedly Petty Cury - a
street in central Cambridge which is now the centre of a shopping
area.

On 5/31/05, Viv Hawley <> wrote:
> 1861 & 71 images sent off list.
>
> Viv Hawley
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gail Law [mailto:]
> Sent: 31 May 2005 18:07
> To:
> Subject: [ENG-CAMB] Louisa Pleasance LAWRENCE after 1844
>
> I am hoping for some help in finding out what happened to Louisa
> Pleasance
> LAWRENCE after she married for the second time in 1844. Her first
> husband
> John RICHARDSON, a butcher, died in Fitzroy St Cambridge in 1843. They
> had
> had at least 9 children many of whom died in infancy/early childhood. In
>
> 1841, the family were living at 31 Eden Walk - John 37, Louisa 34,
> Frances
> 13, Adelaide 11, Mary 4 and James 1.
>
> I have the marriage certificate for Louisa Pleasance RICHARDSON widow,
> to
> Samuel LAWRENCE bachelor (full age). Samuel was a cutler as was his
> father
> John LAWRENCE. They married at the Zion Chapel. Samuel's residence was
> 39
> Petty Coy(?). After this I can find no trace of them. In 1851 I would
> have
> thought that the youngest child of Louisa and John (ie James Edwin
> RICHARDSON) might be with his mother as he would be about 11. I have
> found
> him in 1861 in Shoreditch and in 1881 in Litchurch Derby. I believe he
> died
> in 1886.
>
> I have information for Adelaide - still in Cambridge in 1851 but then in
>
> London for subsequent census records. She married in 1859 in Stepney. I
> can't find anything for Mary or Frances Louisa apart from the fact that
> Frances witnessed Adelaide's marriage.
>
> I have checked as many sources as I can and I was hoping that someone
> with
> some local knowledge might be able to help. Louisa's maiden name was
> CARTER
> and according to the 1841 census she was born outside the county of
> Cambridge. I'd love to know where Louisa ended up and whether she had
> any
> more children with Samuel.
>
> Thanks for reading this. Gail.
>
>
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