DESCENDANTS OF JOHN CHRISTIAN WOHLMANN
AND RELATED FAMILIES – DE CROISETTES, DANIEL, ANDREWS, MARRIOTT, CLARKE
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According to the 1851 census Elizabeth Ann was born in Hockwood-cum-Wilton (should read Hockwold).
This Norfolk village is just off the B1112 and about four miles north-west of Brandon, and
ten miles north-west of Thetford. Her husband was born in Downham, Suffolk, probably Santon
Downham, a neighbouring village near the Little Ouse river. Both villages are on the edge of
the beautiful Breckland of this area but also on the Norfolk borders. It seems Brandon might
be the nearest place with a church, with Thetford another. John, a 'Mason', was born, according to the Fulbourn censuses in 'Downham, Suffolk'. The only Suffolk Downham is Santon Downham, just south of the Little Ouse, near Thetford, and just inside the Suffolk boundary. It seems, from the evidence of his marriage certificate that he was indeed probably born there because he was living at Brandon at the time of his marriage, a village between Hockwold and Santon Downham. Both Brandon and Santon Downham have been 'moved' into Suffolk with boundaries changes. We now know, through the 1841 census, that there was a Fincham family in the village, with a brother for him named Matthew. Marriages Mar 1838, Fincham John Thetford 13, 411 to Thickpenny Elizabeth Ann. There is a reference to the Thickpenny name on a gravestone in St. Vigor's Cambridge. Their son John Thickpenny Fincham died aged 2 in 1854. His marriage to Elizabeth Ann in fact took place at Hockwold in Norfolk at the parish church, according to the rites and ceremonies of the Established Church.The marriage took place 15th January 1838. Both bride and groom were of 'full age', bachelor and spinster. The groom was said to come from 'Brandon' and the bride from 'Hockwold', not Hockwood. The groom's father was John Fincham, a labourer and the bride's father was John Thickpenny, a labourer. The witnesses were James Woolsey and Mary Thickpenny, presumably the bride's sister. All parties signed their own names. Elizabeth Ann died in 1859 in Fulbourn, according to the local monumental inscriptions in St Vigor's, Fulbourn, aged 46 years. Her husband was buried there too and her little boy. The Thickpenny family were represented throughout the 19th century in the Thetford registration area. There are no suitable Thickpenny births on the online IGI in the area around the time Elizabeth was born. The family might have been non-conformist. |