Pauline Thomas
03-08-2005, 9:06 AM
Betsy Whitfield was born circa 1851 in Cumberland. In 1861 she is at home with her father and siblings at Barepot, Seaton. Also with the family is her son John Whitfield age 3 years.
John's birth cert. shows him as John William Whitfield born 31st October 1857 at the Union Workhouse, Cockermouth. No father mentioned.
I cannot find Betsy nor her son on the 1871 census. Of course Betsy may have married and presumably taken her son with her but again I cannot find John William.
I know he survived as in 1886 he married into another branch of my Whitfields at that time giving his father as Silas Whitfield.
To date I have never found a Silas Whitfield.
Regards, Pauline
John's birth cert. shows him as John William Whitfield born 31st October 1857 at the Union Workhouse, Cockermouth. No father mentioned.
I cannot find Betsy nor her son on the 1871 census. Of course Betsy may have married and presumably taken her son with her but again I cannot find John William.
I know he survived as in 1886 he married into another branch of my Whitfields at that time giving his father as Silas Whitfield.
To date I have never found a Silas Whitfield.
Regards, Pauline