BOWERY/BALLINGER 1871 (General)

by spindles , Gloucester, Tuesday, March 23, 2010, 23:05 (5438 days ago) @ ritamclean

Thank you for your replies and the lists of Ballingers etc. I see that Emma Bowery is with a different Bowery family so I wonder if I have been looking at the wrong one, but there are probably more than one Emmas around.

As for the Ballingers, there are plenty of them around too. Elizabeth Bowery Ballinger married Joseph Manns and she was a Widow but I haven't been able to find a previous marriage. According to the census Elizabeth Bowery was single when she was a servant for John Ballinger in 1851 and 1861, she married Joseph Manns in February 1871 which means that if she did previously marry and was widowed it would have to be between 1861 and 1871. She could, of course, have said that she was widowed when she hadn't been married. I wonder when John Ballinger died.

I am beginning to wonder if I will ever find the right family, I shall have to keep looking.