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From: "gabby" <>
Subject: [FENS] Re: [ENG-CAMB] a mystery-help!!
Date: Sat, 8 Jun 2002 14:51:21 -0400
References: <20020608171206.36383.qmail@web21107.mail.yahoo.com>


Unfortunately the registers give neither status [widow/spinster] nor age for
burials. So far the only family headstone was erected in Caldecot in 1921
[my ggrandparents]. They were quite poor-several dying in the workhouse.
Even my grandfather had to leave home and go to work at 12 years of age. It
must be so much easier for rich folks to trace their families--all those
land records, taxes, wills and tombstones ;>)
Sheila
----- Original Message -----
From: MaryLynn McCloskey <>
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Sent: Saturday, June 08, 2002 1:12 PM
Subject: Re: [ENG-CAMB] a mystery-help!!


> This might be worthless and it seems you have already
> seen the PRs for yourself, since you know there was
> only one Westnet family. For the second marriage it
> doesn't list if Mary is a widow or spinster? I know
> the older the registers, the less information was
> recorded, but just a thought. Has anyone found Mary
> Weston's headstone in case there is a clue there?
> ML
> --- gabby <> wrote:
> > I'm hoping some of you will give me your ideas about
> > how to solve my
> > mystery.
> > Here it is-
> > Mary Rowning [b.1730] married John Westnet in 1730.
> > They had 3 surviving
> > children. John received some financial help from the
> > parish for a short
> > while before he died in Jan 1745 at 35.
> > Mary,35, was left with sons aged 1, 3 and 10. They
> > were in Kingston.
> > In Sept 1746 at Kingston, a Mary Westnet married
> > James Wilkinson, origin/age
> > unknown but not local.
> > There are no baptisms/burials for any Wilkinson
> > children .
> > In Mar 1766, James Wilkinson died at Kingston.
> >
> > Now, here's the mystery-- there is no further trace
> > of Mary
> > Wilkinson-marriage or burial- in Kingston or where
> > her sons lived or any
> > other PR I have been able to search. BUT there is a
> > burial at Kingston Sept
> > 1768 of a Mary WESTNET.
> >
> > I still think this is Mary Rowning/Westnet/Wilkinson
> > but then why was she
> > not buried as Wilkinson. She was married to him for
> > 20 years. But why would
> > she be buried under the name of her 1st husband?
> > However there is a slim chance that there could have
> > been a daughter Mary
> > who was unbaptized. She would have to have been born
> > by 1730 to have her
> > fathers name and that would make her only 16 at
> > marriage to John Wilkinson.
> > clues-
> > 1.There were no children--widow Mary was 36 but a
> > dau would be 16 and much
> > more likely to have children.
> > 2. She vanished. If a daughter-It would have been
> > hard for a 36 yr old widow
> > to move out of the county alone. She wasn't with any
> > of her brothers. If the
> > mother-she died 2 years after her 2nd husband.
> > 3. There was only 1 Westnet family in Cambs all
> > descended from Mary's
> > father-in-law, so it isn't another family.
> >
> > I have been befuddled by this for a long time but
> > now the time has come to
> > put together the Westnutts in a booklet for the
> > family and I am stumped as
> > to how to handle Mary. I don't want to put a
> > possibly nonexistent daughter
> > in the mix but can't account for the burial as
> > Westnet either.
> >
> > Any ideas welcome!!
> > Sheila
> >
> > Old genealogists never die, they just lose their
> > census.
> >
> >
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