Lydia Fairweather 1795-1873

Nee Vincent, daughter of James Vincent and Lydia English, born Hardingham, died Norwich, death registered in the Dec quarter 1873 Norwich.

She took on her husband, John Burrell Fairweather's draper's business in Norwich St Peter Mancroft when he died in 1828, after only 8 years of marriage, 4 daughters and a son.

I am surprised that i can't find a Probate for her, have I just missed it?

 

I don't think so, I could not find one either

 

Thanks for looking MM

Of course i didnt help that i wasted time looking for it under Vincent

 

I wonder if she signed the business over to her daughter Eliza at some point in her later years, and then had nothing when she died.

 

That's what I was thinking, though she still seemed to be in charge in 1871

 

Eliza left a fair bit when she died

 

Perhaps she was a just a very canny business woman

 

Fairly comfortable

thanks, now I have wrapped up Lydia, I'll start on the children

 

Just as an aside, can anyone find her husband's birth? All i know is c1798 calculated from the age on his burial record, may be St Peter Mancroft, but he could have come from anywhere

 

Thank you

 

A rather nice notice from the Norwich Mercury 11th April 1829

 

I like that, thank you Ann

 

So did I, she sounds like a nice lady