Jacob Dorrington & Ruth Dorrington, New Zealand 1876 (General)

by Clements Tump , Lowestoft, Saturday, February 24, 2018, 23:14 (2457 days ago) @ Mike Pinchin

Thanks to everyone's help so far.
According to this website PR Thomas Dorrington was buried at Newland on 23.12.1853. His address is given as Claver End Green (Clements?) and he was aged 55 (which goes with a November 1797 baptism in Derbyshire), which agrees with the inquest report. Looking at the calendar for 1853, 22/12 was a Thursday, he was buried the next day on Fri 23/12 and his inquest was on Sat 24/12. This was probably just a formality as I am sure 'Mr Jennings, surgeon of Coleford' may have told the Coroner the same day, so that the family could proceed with the burial. Mind you, the next day seems a bit quick! Interesting that the inquest was in a pub, which, by the way, is still there!
However, I am still missing the details of Thomas Dorrington's first wife, the widow Elizabeth Field. The wedding was on 19.5.1818 at Newland. The only marriage I can find is Elizabeth Niblett of Gloucester age/parents unknown marrying Thomas Field of Stroud age/parents unknown in Gloucester on 29.12.1817, but no death or burial for Thomas Field before May 1818. This might not be the right marriage anyway.
Thomas and Elizabeth Dorrington had 3 children: Harriett b1818 (interesting to consider whether this was Thomas Field's child) d1869; John b1821 d1858 and Thomas b1824 d September 1824. Elizabeth Field had died August 1824. None of these children appear with Thomas Dorrington in the 1841 census, and it was the baptism records that identified them.
Thomas Dorrington married again, to Sarah Jones (possibly born 1802 with a possible baptism in 1803 in Newent) in 1827, and they had 3 children: Elizabeth b1829 d1916(?), Thomas b 1830 d1915 and Jacob b1835 d1919 New Zealand.
I believe that it was Thomas Dorrington (b1797 d1853) that built the cottage in Clements Tump, last lived in by his grandson John Edwin Darrington (son of Thomas Dorrington b1830) who died in 1859.
Thanks again