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Elizabeth Briggs and Robert Briggs, Nottingham.

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Julia

Julia Report 20 Nov 2019 21:05

Erika, yes that is him. He died in a mining accident I have the report on it from my father in law.

The trouble with leaving research for so long is you forget why you eliminated certain pieces of information. I have found all of the above pieces of information before. I think it's especially hard because Elizabeth was obviously a single mum and Robert didn't live with her. I thought they may have moved to Southwell at one point because in 1841 she is a servant in a house and Robert is a lodger in a house a few streets away.

I don't know how I'll ever know for certain it is them though

Thanks for your help :-)

greyghost

greyghost Report 20 Nov 2019 22:37

Related to this thread
https://www.genesreunited.co.uk/boards/board/ancestors/thread/1380507

EDIT - re post below - still relates to Elizabeth Briggs, good to tie one thread to another

ErikaH

ErikaH Report 20 Nov 2019 23:29

That was only about the building.

Chris Ho :)

Chris Ho :) Report 21 Nov 2019 08:30

Don't know how many Robert Briggs Farm Servants there are (seeing 1851) but as below came up...

24 June 1858 - Nottinghamshire Guardian - Nottingham, Nottinghamshire

Police Intelligence
Robert Briggs was charged with absenting himself from the service of Mr. John Richardson, farmer, of Epperstone. The defendant's only excuse was he thought he could do better by parting from his master. He was ordered to pay the expenses 20s 6d, and on promising to return to his master's service and behave better in the future, he was discharged.


1860 Marriage, where he was a Widower, occ. Coal Miner...
(wits. Joseph Clark, Ann Clark (Sister of Charlotte, Marriage 1842)

Chris :)

Edits (have you got that 1856 Marriage Cert., reference posted earlier?, a birth below)

Birth
BRIGGS, ALFRED THOMAS PETTENAR
GRO Reference: 1857 J Quarter in THE NEWARK UNION Volume 07B Page 320

(looks like Death 1857 to match. Burial 24/7/57 Farndon)

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