Person:Eleanor Ablet (1)

Eleanor Ablet was baptised on 20th November 1712 at Abington Pigotts in Cambridgeshire, daughter of Grace Ablet, formerly Harradine, and her husband Robert Ablet. Eleanor was the youngest of their five children.

In February 1721, when Eleanor was eight years old, her father Robert died. Eleanor’s mother died ten years later, in February 1731.

Sometime before 1734 a carpenter called Edmund Stanton came to live in Abington Pigotts. He was from the village of Hinxworth in Hertfordshire, about six miles south-west of Abington Pigotts. Quite possibly he came with his older brother Francis, who died at Abington Pigotts in 1730, aged 26.

On 12th July 1736, aged 23, Eleanor married Edmund Stanton, who was 28. They did not marry at Abington Pigotts, but in the nearby market town of Royston. At the time of their marriage Eleanor was said to be a resident of Royston, whilst Edmund was a resident of Hinxworth.

After their marriage they settled in Hinxworth, where Edmund had inherited a house from his parents. That house was certainly later the Three Horseshoes public house – it is unclear whether it was already a public house or known by that name when Edmund and Eleanor moved there.

Eleanor and Edmund had five children baptised at Hinxworth between 1737 and 1747, although it would appear that only two of their children (the eldest and youngest) survived infancy.

Eleanor’s son Francis married in 1760 and Eleanor’s first grandchild was born the following year. She would see three grandchildren born in her lifetime, although one died young.

Eleanor died at the aged of 53, being buried at Hinxworth on 27th November 1765. Edmund survived her by fifteen years.

1. ↑ Abington Pigotts, Cambridgeshire: Bishops Transcripts (Cambridgeshire Archives, Ely).

   A Transcript from the Register of All the Marriages, Baptisms and Burials in the Parish of Abington juxta Shingey in the Diocese of Ely from Lady day 1712 to Lady day 1713 / Baptized / Elen daughter of Robert and Grace Ablett Nov[ember] 20

   This baptism has been linked to the Eleanor Ablet who married Edmund Stanton in 1736 at Royston on the basis that polling records from 1734 show that Edmund at that time was living at “Abbingdon” in Cambridgeshire – presumably Abington Pigotts where this “Elen” had been baptised. No other Eleanor (or variants) has been found in the area at a plausible time, nor does the child baptised in 1712 appear to have married or died at Abington Pigotts.

2. ↑ Church of England. Parish registers of Hinxworth, 1551-1985. (Hertford: Hertfordshire Archives and Local Studies).

   1765 / Buried Eleanor the wife of Edmund Stanton the 27th Nov[embe]r