What happened to Henry Beech of Worksop, Notts, England?

Question

Hi, first time posting on G2G.

I've been fleshing out the biography of my ggg grandmother, Hannah Plummer (Plummer-3874) and I'm interested to find out what happened to her husband Henry (Beech-933).

They married in 1835 and had two (known) children. They lived in Worksop, in Nottinghamshire, England. I have a decent candidate for Henry on the 1841 census, and he was the informant for the registration of his mother's death in 1847, but then nothing. I can't find any more records relating to him.

In 1851 Hannah was living with his brother William (Beech-930), but they describe her as still married. She had another daughter, Jane (Beech-769), in January of that year, but I suspect that the father was William (and Jane seems to have thought this too). By 1861 Hannah was described in the census as a widow, and was still living with William.

The most likely thing is that he died and I just haven't located the death record yet (or no record exists), but I wonder if he ran away and started a new life somewhere else.

Interestingly a similar thing looks to have happened to Jane. Her first husband Edmund Simmons (Simmons-16435) is equally elusive.

Thanks, Jeremy

Comments

Have you looked for a possible wife sale?  (It was the lower class's way of getting divorced, considering divorce was near impossible to get.)  From the little I know, some siblings marrying in-laws, some of those were from wife sales.

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Thanks. An interesting idea. I'll look into it.

Answer 1

I added it to his profile d-1892 Staffordshire

Answer 2

Thanks Chris,

However, I don't think that this can be the correct Henry Beech, he appears to have been in Staffordshire in 1841. The Henry Beech I'm researching was in Worksop, Nottinghamshire in 1841.

Jeremy