Person:Edward Pask (1)

Edward Pask's origins have yet to be established. The age quoted when he died implies that he was born around 1770. His first confirmed sighting is on 13th March 1796, when he married Sarah Newborn at the church of St James, Piccadilly, in the western suburbs of London. She was from Barnack in Northamptonshire, and by 1799 they had left London and were living in Barnack. They had a son baptised in Barnack in 1799 and a daughter there in 1802. Edward also witnessed two of Sarah's siblings' marriages: Ann in 1797 at Ufford and Elizabeth in 1805 at Barnack.

Edward and Sarah left Barnack and moved just over the border to neighbouring Lincolnshire, where they had a daughter baptised at Baston in 1804, two children at nearby Barholm in 1806 and 1808, and one more daughter at Barkston in 1814.

Edward worked for many years as a keeper (presumably in the sense of gamekeeper) for a Dr Willis at Greatford, which is near both Baston and Barholm.

By the 1830s, Edward and Sarah were living in the town Stamford. Edward died there on 9th March 1836. He was buried three days later back at Barnack. Sarah survived him by six years.

1. ↑ ^1.0 1.1 Burials register, in Church of England. Parish Church of Barnack (Northamptonshire). Parish registers, 1695–1974. (Northampton, England: Northamptonshire Record Office).

   BURIALS in the Parish of Barnack in the County of Northampton in the Year 1836
   No.	Name	Abode	When buried	Age	By whom the Ceremony was performed
   348	Edward Pask	All Saints' Stamford	March 12	65 [1770/1]	C.H. Swann, Curate

2. ↑ Stamford Mercury, in United Kingdom. The British Newspaper Archive
   Page 3, 18 Mar 1836.

   DIED.
   At Stamford, on the 9th inst., advanced in years, Mr. Pask, for many years a keeper in the establishment of Dr. Willis, at Greatford.