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Member Since: May 2007 Posts: 5 Send Message	Peter	Report	13 Jul 2011 14:28
Member Since: May 2007 Posts: 5 Send Message	Jane Cripps was born in Kent(Chatham or Gillingham)circa 1835 and died in Colchester in 1867, aged 32. In 1858, she married Jonah Bowers, a soldier serving 21 years, and had 4 children, Edward (1859), Esther Jane (1860), William (1863) and James (1865). The marriage cert. showed Jane Cripps's father as William Haynes, although she was probably too young to have been married before, so William Haynes was possibly her stepfather or guardian. After Jane's death, Jonah left the army in 1868, remarried the same year, then returned to his birth town of Burslem. Staffs. Please, can anyone help with any information concerning Jane's family before she was married to Jonah Bowers? I am unable to trace her birth or find her in any census before 1861.
Member Since: February 2003 Posts: 27 271 Send Message	Gwyn in Kent	Report	13 Jul 2011 14:34
	Do you have any of the birth certificates for Jane's children? That should show her maiden name. It wasn't that uncommon for women to be widowed very young. Gwyn
Member Since: June 2007 Posts: 31 288 Send Message	PricklyHolly	Report	13 Jul 2011 14:36
	For Ref..... 1861 England Census about Jane Bowers Name: Jane Bowers Age: 24 Estimated Birth Year: abt 1837 Relation: Wife Spouse's Name: Jonah Bowers Gender: Female Where born: Chatham, Kent, England Civil parish: Gillingham Ecclesiastical parish: Holy Trinity Town: Brompton County/Island: Kent Country: England Registration district: Medway Sub-registration district: Gillingham ED, institution, or vessel: Third Depot Battalion Huts Barracks Brompton Neighbors: View others on page Household schedule number: 1 Piece: 480 Folio: 128 Page Number: 41 Household Members: Name Age Jonah Bowers 24 Jane Bowers 24 Edward Bowers 2 Esther J Bowers 7 MO
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Member Since: February 2010 Posts: 18 936 Send Message	Flick	Report	13 Jul 2011 14:37
	Have you looked for a prior marriage? Having said that, if she'd been married before, the info should be on the marriage cert.........unless, of course, she wasn't a widow, in which case, she wouldn't have been able to refer to it What was the stated occupation of William Haynes?
Member Since: July 2004 Posts: 33 475 Send Message	GlitterBaby	Report	13 Jul 2011 14:37
	Does it give any occupation for William Haynes on the marriage cert ?
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Member Since: May 2007 Posts: 5 Send Message	Peter	Report	13 Jul 2011 15:00
Member Since: May 2007 Posts: 5 Send Message	The occupation for William Haynes was Milk Carrier
Member Since: August 2003 Posts: 1 828 Send Message	GillianMac	Report	13 Jul 2011 15:51
	Given that army families tended to marry within the profession I wonder about this one 1851 Truro Cornwall William Hase 58 Police Constable/Chelsea Pensioner, Sergt b Ireland Mary Hase 50 wife Dressmaker b St Mary Truro JANE 15 daur b CHATHAM Kent George 10 b St Mary Truro Mary 5 b St mary Truro Fanny 3 b St Mary Truro I wonder if Jane was born prior to the marriage with William and have searched for a marriage Mary Cripps to William Hase but no luck -of course it could have been before 1837 or even abroad I am assuming that the "Haynes "might have been a miss-hearing by the registrar

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