It's not often that I stop in the middle of my genealogical-huntings and go "aaah, that's sad" but it happened to me this morning.......
So there I was, probing the new Ancestry search-engine (not good for those of us with dodgy hands, there are far too many keystrokes required) for George Culpin. The youngest of the five children of Henry Culpin and Caroline, nee Marriott, George was born in Ryhall, Rutland, in 1875. He doesn't seem to trouble the record-keepers much; growing up in Ryhall he appeared in the census and by 1901 he was a platelayer on the railway.
On 17th June 1907 he married Mary Jane (Jennie) Chantrey at the parish church, Deeping St James, and they next appeared on the 1911 census in Belmisthorpe. George is now a foreman platelayer.
Nothing more until Jennie died on 7th March 1954 in the Stamford & Rutland hospital. I was mildly curious at to why a Jack Culpin suddenly appears to deal with probate, but went back to my search for George.
The "aaah, that's sad" moment came when I discovered that George died just three weeks after Jennie. Died suddenly, I'm guessing, because it appeared to have happened at someone's house and probate (sorted out by the mysterious Jack Culpin again) is done by Administration (with Will) so maybe George didn't even have enough time to rewrite his Will......
I know this kind of thing probably happened a lot but it just stopped me in my tracks for a few seconds....
More soon.
