Person:Rebecca Howes (2)

Rebecca Howes' origins have yet to be researched. According to the age quoted at her burial she was born in about 1763. Her first confirmed sighting is in 1802 when she married a labourer named James Nicholls at Studham in Bedfordshire. James was a widower and was about fourteen years her senior. He appears to have had two surviving children from his first marriage, and had been living at Hudnall, just south of Studham. Rebecca and James do not appear to have had any children together.

James died in 1821, aged 71. Rebecca remarried seven months after his death, with her second husband being a Henry Cook. They married at Great Gaddesden, just south of Studham and Hudnall.

Rebecca died in 1827, aged 64. She was buried at Great Gaddesden on 23rd August 1827, with the burial record noting that she had been living in the workhouse. Henry survived her by just under three years.

1. ↑ ^1.0 1.1 Burials register, in Church of England. Great Gaddesden Parish Registers. (Hertford: Hertfordshire Archives and Local Studies).

   BURIALS in the Parish of G[rea]t Gaddesden in the County of Hertford in the Year 1827
   No.368
   Name: Rebecca Cook
   Abode: Workhouse
   When buried: August 23d
   Age: 64 [1762/3]
   By whom the Ceremony was performed: J.B. Bingham