Showing posts with label Marsh. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Marsh. Show all posts

Wednesday, 25 February 2026

Robert Marsh and Hannah Piggin

A Fine Day in February (Hellesdon) - John Middleton (Before 1856)

Robert Marsh, widower, married Hannah Piggin (bap. 9 Feb 1734 at St Edmund's Church, Norwich) single woman, then of the parish of Bauberg (Bawburgh), daughter of John and Mary Piggin, by Licence, at St Mary's ChurchHellesdon, Norfolk on 25 Feb 1758. No witnesses are listed. 

Let's hope it was a fine day for them!

Robert was a widower at the time of his marriage to Hannah. Although I've not [yet] located the earlier marriage, records show the burial of Sarah Marsh, wife of Robert Marsh, in Hellesdon, on 24 Dec 1755, with whom he'd had several children, including these baptised / buried in Hellesdon: 
  1. Mary Marsh buried 20 Nov 1735
  2. Keziah Marsh bap. 7 Jan 1738. Buried 9 Jan 1738
  3. Samuel Marsh bap. 27 Oct 1740. Buried 30 Oct 1740
  4. Robert Marsh bap. 6 Sep 1741. Buried 25 Oct 1741
  5. Kerenhappuch Marsh bap. 5 Mar 1744. Buried 11 Mar 1744
Keren-happuch (Hebrew: קֶרֶן הַפּוּךְ‎ Qeren Happūḵ, "Horn of kohl") was the youngest of the three beautiful daughters of Job, named in the Bible as given to him in the later part of life, after God made Job prosperous again. Keren-happuch's older sisters are named as Jemima and Keziah. (Clearly, they knew their bible, but I didn't find a record for a Jemima anywhere.)

Robert Marsh's second marriage only seems to have produced one child: 
  1. Hannah Marsh bap. 18 Feb 1759
Then it appears that Robert Marsh of Hellesdon Old Hall, Farmer, died and was buried in Hellesdon on 23 Jun 1762.

Friday, 20 February 2026

David Minns and Hannah Marsh

View of St Mary Newington Church in 1750 from the South West by Jean Baptise Claude Chatelain. Source: Southwark Heritage Blog, Via: A History of the Parish of St. Mary Newington

David Minns (bap. 5 Sep 1755 in Hethersett, Norfolk), son of John Minns and Elizabeth Reynolds, married Hannah Marsh (bap. 18 Feb 1759, in Hellesdon, Norfolk), daughter of Robert Marsh and Hannah Piggin, on 20 Feb 1775, in the parish of Newington St Mary, 'in the the hundred of Brixton and of the county of Surrey, 1¾ mile (S.) from London'. In 1775, the parish church for Newington, Surrey (often referred to as Newington-Butts), was St Mary's Church and the listings here confirm that this is where they married. I'd be intrigued to know why they made that journey to marry in London. Was it because Hannah was then only 16 and didn't have parental consent?

Records can be identified for the following children of this family: 
  1. Robert Marsh Minns bap. 19 Nov 1776 in Hethersett
  2. John Minns bap. 21 Sep 1783 in Norwich, Norfolk
  3. Hannah Minns b. 21 Feb 1792, bap. 12 Mar 1792 in Heigham
  4. Sarah Minns b. 15 Nov 1793, bap. 1 Dec 1793 in Heigham
  5. David Minns b. 5 Jan 1797, bap. 8 Jan 1797, buried 3 Jan 1798
  6. David Minns b. 19 Jan 1799, bap. 20 Jan 1799 in Heigham
With such gaps between them, there may have been other children.

David Minns was buried on 13 Sep 1835 at St Martin at Oak, Norwich.

In 1841, Hannah Minns (83) was lodging in the household of James and Elizabeth Morrison, in Cross Lane, St George Colegate, Norfolk. 

Hannah Minns (86) died in 1843 J Quarter in NORWICH Vol 13 Page 187.