Ellen Woodhead
Ellen was born in 1830 in
Meltham.
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Birth Notes
Born Meltham (1851 census), Aged 21
Abode Park Gate in 1841
Its strange that all the other Children are born at Almondbury and only Ellen at Meltham. However, Ellen is the only one not to be baptised there.
Name: Ellen Woodhead
Baptism Date: 18 Apr 1830
Baptism Place: Meltham, St Bartholomew, Yorkshire, England
Father: Joshua Woodhead
Mother: Mary Woodhead
Ellen's father was
Joshua Woodhead and her mother was
Mary Raynor. She had four half-brothers and three half-sisters, named
George,
Hadfield,
Abraham,
Daniel,
Emelia,
Elizabeth and
Mary. She died after 1901 in
Almondbury.
Death Notes
If Ellen is the Ellen Woodhead, the only Ellen of Melthan born near 1830, then she married Joseph Rawlinson and lived past 1900.
This Ellen is another, from Huddersfield not from Meltham:
Name Ellen Dyson
Estimated Birth Year abt 1830
Registration Year 1871
Registration Quarter Jul-Aug-Sep
Age at Death 41
Registration district Huddersfield
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General Notes
Ellen is not a popular name in this era. There are no baptism for Ellen, dau of John Dyson, so she may have been Mary's daughter before they maried. There is only one Ellen baptised at Meltham: Ellen Woodhead (18 Apr 1830), and her mother was a Mary (and father Joshua). There are no other baptisms for this couple here, so it is quite likely this is Ellen.
Although baptised Ellen Woodhead, was to be known as Ellen Dyson by her step-father on the 1841 and 1851 census. However she used her birth name when married Joseph Raelinson on 1-Aug-1853.
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Ancestor Pedigree Chart
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- b.~ 1807 in Meltham d.May 1833 in Netherthong
- b.1830 in Meltham d.> 1901 in Almondbury
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- b.1807 in Marsden d.Mar 1886 in Huddersfield