Person:Elizabeth Hall (239)

Elizabeth Hall was born in 1785, although it is not recorded where. She was the daughter of Sarah Hall, formerly Bigg, and her husband Richard Hall. Elizabeth's parents had married at Caddington in Bedfordshire in 1780, but they do not appear to have baptised their children as infants (probably suggesting non-conformist leanings) and the only other child found belonging to the couple was Sarah, baptised aged seven at St Paul's Walden, ten miles east of Caddington, in 1795, showing that the family moved around.

Elizabeth was baptised aged seventeen or eighteen at Caddington on 31st January 1803, which was also her wedding day. She married a carpenter named Jeremiah Puddephatt, who was nineteen. Elizabeth and Jeremiah stayed in Caddington, where they had six or seven children between 1803 and 1823. The baptisms of some of the children record that the family lived at Felden Bottom in the Aley Green area of the parish, in the vicinity of the modern Mancroft Road between Aley Green and Lower Woodside. Jeremiah is recorded on these baptisms as being a carpenter.

In 1831, Elizabeth's daughter Sophia married, and her first known grandchild was born shortly afterwards.

Elizabeth died aged about 50, being buried at Caddington on 22nd October 1835. Jeremiah outlived her by nearly eight years.

1. ↑ ^1.0 1.1 Bedfordshire Family History Society. Caddington Parish Register Transcript 1538-1812. (Bedford).

   ch. 31 Jan 1803: Eliz d Rich & Sarah Hall "born in the year 1785"

   Needs to be confirmed at Bedfordshire Archives. This baptism has been linked to the Elizabeth Hall who married Jeremiah Puddephatt on the basis that she was baptised on the same day and in the same parish as her marriage; presumably having not been baptised as a child she was baptised immediately before her marriage. Her stated birth year also corresponds with the age quoted at burial for the adult Elizabeth.

2. ↑ Burials register, in Church of England. Caddington Parish Registers. (Bedford: Bedfordshire Record Office).

   BURIALS in the Parish of Caddington in the County of Bedford in the Year 1835
   No.	Name	Abode	When buried	Age	By whom the Ceremony was performed
   688	Elizabeth Puddephat	Pipers Bottom	Oct[obe]r 22	50	W. Mellard, Vicar