Family of Henry SCOTT and Rhoda Gardiner HART

Husband:
Henry SCOTT (c. 1831- )
Wife:
Rhoda Gardiner HART (1842-1881)
Marriage:
21 Nov 1880
New Buckenham
married by licence, both widowed, witnesses were Harry SCOTT and Belinda BARTRUM

Husband: Henry SCOTT

Name:
Henry SCOTT
Sex:
Male
Father:
Esau SCOTT ( - )
Father:
-
Birth:
c. 1831

Wife: Rhoda Gardiner HART

Name:
Rhoda Gardiner HART
Sex:
Female
Father:
Henry Gardiner HART (1812-1875)
Mother:
Margaret BROWNE (c. 1806-c. 1873)
Birth:
17 Nov 1842
Tharston^1,2
Baptism:
28 Jan 1844 (age 1)
Tharston¹
Census:
1851 (age 8-9)
Tharston³
Address: Railway Cottage, Tharston

8, scholar, living with parents Henry (38, master miller employing 3 men) and Margaret (44), and brother Henry (10, scholar)
Census:
1861 (age 18-19)
Ingworth⁴
Address: Turnpike, Ingworth

18, living with parents Henry (49, miller) and Margaret (55), brother Henry (20, miller) and daughter Henrietta PITCHER (9 mths)
Census:
1871 (age 28-29)
Ingworth⁵
Address: Ingworth Street, Ingworth

26, living with brother Henry Gardiner (30, miller employing 2 men and 1 boy)
Death:
26 Jan 1881 (age 38)
New Buckenham^6,7
Burial:
29 Jan 1881
Bressingham⁸
Probate:
31 Dec 1883
Principal Registry⁶
PITCHER Rhoda Gardiner. 31 December [1883]. Administration of the Personal Estate of Rhoda Gardener Pitcher (Wife of Robert Pitcher) late of New Buckenham in the County of Norfolk who died 26 January 1881 at New Buckenham was granted at the Principal Registry under the usual Limitations to William Locke Byne of 12 Abchurch-lane in the City of London Accountant and lawful Attorney of the said Robert Pitcher now residing in the Colony of New South Wales. Personal Estate £589.

Note on Wife: Rhoda Gardiner HART

There is some confusion over the dates of deaths and marriages! Rhoda married Robert PITCHER in 1859, then Henry SCOTT in 1880 where her condition is widow. The 1883 probate record for her states, 'Wife of Robert Pitcher ..... granted at the Principal Registry under the usual Limitations to William Locke Byne of 12 Abchurch-lane in the City of London Accountant and lawful Attorney of the said Robert Pitcher now residing in the Colony of New South Wales'. (The 'now residing' indicates still living?) With the family name of Gardiner used in the forenames of many of the family members, making quite distinctive full names, there is little chance that there would be two people with the same name, also not with father's distinctive name (Henry Gardiner HART) and occupation (miller) the same. It is not possible to research the Robert PITCHER in New South Wales as there are several appropriately named people in records but with no other indications as to whether they are 'our' Robert PITCHER.

Sources

1.: Parish register - baptism. Tharston. Cit. Date: 28 January 1844.

2.: Civil Registration - birth. 1842 Q4 Depwade 13 44. Cit. Date: Q4 1842.

3.: 1851 Census. HO107 1821 655 3. Cit. Date: 1851.

4.: 1861 Census. RG09 1207 63 3. Cit. Date: 1861.

5.: 1871 Census. RG10 1804 60 3. Cit. Date: 1871.

6.: National Probate Calendar. 1883 Page 297. Cit. Date: 31 December 1883.

7.: Civil Registration - death. 1881 Q1 Guiltcross 4B 175. Cit. Date: Q1 1881.

8.: Parish register - burial. Bressingham. Cit. Date: 29 January 1881.