Martha Popple MMMMFM

[ElizabethHerts]

mother's mother's mother's mother's father's mother

link to Newbourn Wood, my 3x great-grandather
http://genealogistsforum.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?t=10434&highlight=Newbourn

Name - "official" name and what they were known as
Martha Popple

Date and place of birth
1762/63 Scotton Lincolnshire

Names of parents
John Popple and Ann (née Atkinson)

Date and place of baptism - if applicable
14 January 1763
St Genewys, Scotton, Lincolnshire

Scotton Register for the year 1763
Christenings
Jan. 14th Martha Dr of John and Anne Pople


Details of each of his or her marriages
To Newbourn Wood
7 October 1783
St Genewys, Scotton, Lincolnshire

"Banns of Marriage Between Newbourn Wood Bachelor and Martha Popple Spinster both of this Parish were published three several Sundays by J. Smith Curate

No 96
Newbourn Wood of this Parish Bachelor and Martha Popple of this Parish Spinster
Married in this Church by Banns
this seventh Day of October in the Year One
Hundred and Eighty three by me F: Smith Curate
This Marriage was solemnized between Us Newbourn Wood (signed)
Martha Popple (Signed)
in the Presence of Catherine Wood
Charlotte Wood"

Children
Newbourn chr. 30 Dec 1784 Scotton
Joseph chr. 30 Aug 1786 Scotton
Ann chr. 23 Dec 1788 Scotton
Martha chr. 17 Mar 1791 Scotton
William chr. 18 May 1793 Scotton
John chr. 2 Aug 1795 Scotton
Mary chr. 3 Dec 1796 Scotton
Henry chr. 8 Mar 1798
Edward chr. 6 Sep 1799 Scotton
Edward chr. 28 Jan 1801 Scotton
Edward chr. 21 Apr 1802 Scotton



Addresses where they lived (including county if in UK)
Scotton, Lincolnshire

Date, place and cause of death
13th June 1802 Scotton
cause unknown

Martha Wood died less than two months after having given birth to her third son to be baptised with the name Edward. The baby died aged 4 months.


Date and place of burial
16 June 1802
St Genewys, Scotton

Details of will / administration of their estate
none

Memorial inscription
In
Memory of
Martha the Wife of Newbourn
Wood who departed this life
June the 13th 1802
(then a verse, illegible)

Her three sons named Edward are buried with her.

[ElizabethHerts]

I have added details of Martha Wood's memorial stone.

The stone no longer stands in the churchyard, but on my recent trip to Lincolnshire Archives I viewed the following booklet:

Plans of churchyard and detailed lists of graves, tombstones and inscriptions Reference Name SCOTTON PAR/8/5
Produced by Revd HE von Sturmer, rector, in 1884, with annotations to 1978.
Date: 1884-1978
Repository: Lincolnshire Archives [057]

Martha's grave was sketched and a plan of the graveyard is given with her grave marked so I know where she was buried.

Even when her grave was sketched, the bottom of it was crumbling. The booklet records that her three infant sons, all named Edward, were buried with her.

[Shona]

How lovely to read such a complete account. Interested to see the name Newbourn. I've come across it several times (with various spellings) in Lincolnshire records. Also, Newlove used as a first name. Wonder if it's a Lincolnshire thing?

[ElizabethHerts]

Shona, I've grown very fond of this branch of my mother's tree. I think I was rather taken with the Christian name "Newbourn" too.

I just need to find the ancestry of Henry Newbourn, a mariner, who was married at East Retford, Notts., and lived latterly and was buried at Hemswell. His will shows he had land at Haxey, but I can't find an appropriate baptism yet. There are lots of Newbourn(e)s at Haxey and the surrounding area.

I think Newbourn is very much a Lincolnshire name. However, the custom of giving children an unusual Christian name coming from a surname seems to be prevalent all over the country. In the same Wood family, I have a son named "Gawthrop" or "Gawthorp" Wood after his mother's maiden name.