Katarzyna
29-01-10, 22:09
Cassandra Elizabeth LEE/RANSOM/SMITH
This one gave me my biggest headache and several brickwalls especially when I saw the marriage cert! I wasn't sure who she was in reality.
Date and place of birth : c1833, Rushmere, Ipswich, Suffolk
Names of parents :John LEE and Cassandra SMITH
Date and place of baptism :19th April 1833 Rushmere St Andrew (as LEE) although her parents did not marry until 1854. Her mother married William Ransom a year after Cassandra Elizabeth was born. Why? - we will never know!
Details of marriage: 17th October 1852 (as Cassandra SMITH) to Henry PALMER.
Father’s name on marriage cert given as William RANSOM !
Occupation: Housemaid
Addresses where they lived:
1841: (in step fathers name – RANSOM) St Clements, Ipswich.
1851: (as COPANDER SMITH – mothers maiden name) St Nicholas, Harwich, Essex.
1861: Cottage, South Town, Gorleston, Suffolk
Date, place and cause of death: Cassandra died 25th April 1869 age 36 of diseased liver and peritonitis after bilious vomiting for 3 days. She died at Hordle street, Dovercourt; Cassandra LEE (mother now married to her father !!) being present at her death.
Date and place of burial / cremation: not known
Details of will / administration of their estate and Memorial inscription - if any: not known
This one gave me my biggest headache and several brickwalls especially when I saw the marriage cert! I wasn't sure who she was in reality.
Date and place of birth : c1833, Rushmere, Ipswich, Suffolk
Names of parents :John LEE and Cassandra SMITH
Date and place of baptism :19th April 1833 Rushmere St Andrew (as LEE) although her parents did not marry until 1854. Her mother married William Ransom a year after Cassandra Elizabeth was born. Why? - we will never know!
Details of marriage: 17th October 1852 (as Cassandra SMITH) to Henry PALMER.
Father’s name on marriage cert given as William RANSOM !
Occupation: Housemaid
Addresses where they lived:
1841: (in step fathers name – RANSOM) St Clements, Ipswich.
1851: (as COPANDER SMITH – mothers maiden name) St Nicholas, Harwich, Essex.
1861: Cottage, South Town, Gorleston, Suffolk
Date, place and cause of death: Cassandra died 25th April 1869 age 36 of diseased liver and peritonitis after bilious vomiting for 3 days. She died at Hordle street, Dovercourt; Cassandra LEE (mother now married to her father !!) being present at her death.
Date and place of burial / cremation: not known
Details of will / administration of their estate and Memorial inscription - if any: not known