Looking for a burial

[Phoebe]

This is a bit of a vain hope, but now I have managed to narrow things down a bit I thought it was worth asking ...

I can't find a death for Elinor or Eleanor WOOD. She disappears after the 1841 census and her husband Humphrey has a new wife by 1851 - although I can't find the marriage either which is suspicious. Humphrey's second wife had a child in February 1847, so presumably Eleanor was gone by then.

Humphrey & Eleanor's youngest child, James Benbow WOOD, was buried at St Martin's on 16 Feb 1843, and his parents recorded as Humphrey and Ellen (a common short form of Eleanor), according to the Family Search beta site.

So I wonder if someone would be kind enough to check the above entry for any extra info, eg an address - and to look through from there to 1846/7 for any trace of a burial for Elinor or Eleanor or Ellen WOOD, wife of Humphrey. She was born in 1796.

 

[Mike Fisher]

of Bread St age 3

 

[Phoebe]

Thank you for that, Mike. That will send me off to my maps now as it doesn't ring a bell! Every little helps. (edit: found it, it's now Cornwall St.)

I've been trying to find out what became of Eleanor for some time now. Of course they could have just split up, but somehow I don't think that's the answer. Humphrey's second wife was not from Birmingham, but from his home village in Herefordshire, and I am almost sure she was his cousin. Could it be Eleanor fell ill and she came to look after her? Various descendants of Eleanor were named after her, so they obviously wanted her to be remembered.

 

[Mike Fisher]

I have searched for Ellen Wood's death at St Martins up to 1847 with no sucess

 

[Phoebe]

Thank you very much, that eliminates one. It's odd that the little boy was buried at St Martin's, as both St Philip's and St Paul's are closer (the family was in Snow Hill in 1841). I'll have to try and come up and look at some more PRs.

Later - She died in September 1841 and was buried at St Martin's. So the mention on the little boy's burial was posthumous. They don't make it easy, do they!