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I have spent all day searching on Ancestry and FreeBMD, if anyone has any bright ideas where to look next (other than a visit to the record office some time in the future) I would be very grateful.

My Gtx3 Grandmother MARGARET GRADY was born c 1792-96, this info gleaned from the 1841 where she is living in Portsea, Hants with her husband RICHARD COX who she married on 23 Oct 1817 (IGI M073564). at Gosport.

Richard (I think but am waiting for the cert) died in 1847.

I have been unable to find Margaret on any other census, I am pretty certain she would have either been in Portsea or Gosport as her son Jesse and his family are in the area.

I have checked freeBMD and ancestry for a marriage for her and also for a death but can find neither.

Am I missing something? Anyone got any bright ideas?

Grateful for any help. Thanks.

Ann
Glos

If anyone has ideas and I don't reply i will be back on tomorrow.

Ann
Glos

Her marriage won't be on FreeBMD, civil registration didn't begin until 1837.

Could she have remarried after Richard died? Apologies if it was a second marriage you were looking for on FreeBMD :-)

Sam x

Is this them on 1841 ?

Name: Richard Cox
Age: 45
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1796
Gender: Male
Where born: Hampshire, England

Civil Parish: Portsea Town
Hundred: Portsmouth Borough
County/Island: Hampshire
Country: England

Street address:

Occupation:

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Registration district: Portsea Island
Sub-registration district: Portsea Town
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Household Members:
Name Age
Margaret Cox 45
Richard Cox 45

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I have searched every option and I can't find her after 1841 either !

That is them on 1841.

It was a second marriage I was looking for, and/or her death. So strange that there is no more mention of her after 1841.

I looked for second marriage and death using Grady/Cox and no surname but still nothing !

Have you tried Cocks?

Rose

I'm thinking that perhaps the marriage broke up between 1841 and the death of Richard.

It would be interesting to know who reported Richard's death.

My suggestion would be that Margaret was living as wife of someone else. Maybe she couldn't marry him because he was also already married. I'd guess she'd be found under another assumed surname.

In which case, unless she happened to have some known family member living with her one census night, you may never know.

Good luck

Sue

My ancestors were married in the same church (Holy Trinity in Gosport) and I spent a couple of years trying to track them down but it turned out that they were married by licence. Although she was born in Alverstoke/Gosport he was from Yorkshire and they went to live there.
The trouble with the 1841 census is that they often ticked yes when one of them was from the area.
Just a thought but Grady could mean that she was Irish...Gosport is a port area.

thank for those suggestions. yes I have tried cocks. I also thought she may have been Irish, although there seem to be quite a few Gradys in Hampshire. I should have said that Richard was in the R Marines so, yes she maybe was born elsewhere. Maybe Kent as that seemed to be where some of the marine families ended up. Thanks anyway, will have to keep looking.

Ann
Glos

Just a thought, have you got Richard's death cert to check on address at time of death and informant ?

I am waiting for Richard's (at least I hope it is his) death cert to come, will be next week.

Ann
Glos