Person:Dorcas Walby (1)

Dorcas Walby was baptised on 9th March 1783 at Aston in Hertfordshire, daughter of Alice Walby, formerly Wright, and her husband George Walby, a labourer. Dorcas married aged 19 on 13th November 1802 to George Beadle, an agricultural labourer from the neighbouring parish of Benington.

Dorcas and George went on to have eight children baptised at Aston between 1803 and 1824. Dorcas's mother died in 1816 and her father died in 1821.

Dorcas died aged 47 and was buried in her native Aston on 24th April 1830. George outlived her by nearly 44 years, but does not appear to have remarried.

1. ↑ Church of England. Aston Parish registers, 1558-1980. (Hertford: Hertfordshire Archives and Local Studies).

   1783: Dorcas Daughter of George & Alice Walby March 9

2. ↑ Burials register, in Church of England. Aston Parish registers, 1558-1980. (Hertford: Hertfordshire Archives and Local Studies).

   BURIALS in the Parish of Aston in the County of Hertford in the Year 1830
   No.	Name	Abode	When buried	Age	By whom the Ceremony was performed
   141	Dorcas Beadle	Aston	April 24th	48	W[illia]m D. Longland