


IDENTITY: Mrs. Frances (known as 'Fanny") Hurry.Not sure about the relationship with the Bishop family. She was born in Whittlesey, Cambridgeshire, in c. 1789.In the 1861 census she was living in St. Pauls Street, Stamford, with Henry Bishop's mother, Eliza Gilbert Bishop, and Eliza's sister Ann Gilbert.
POST SCRIPT OCTOBER 22, 2009: I had wondered if the mysterious Fanny Hurry may have been a sister to Sarah and Eleanor Barnes, but could find no evidence to support this line of thinking. The arrival of the parish records of St. Mary's, Whittlesey, c.d allowed me to pursue this further, and sure enough Fanny Hurry WAS born Frances Barnes. She was baptised on June 14, 1789, at St. Mary's, Whittlesey, the daughter of Thomas and Ann Barnes, and younger sister of Sarah and Eleanor Barnes.
On June 4, 1817, Fanny Barnes married John Sudbury Hurry, by licence, at St. Mary's, Whittlesey.
John Sudbury Hurry was the son of John Hurry, farmer, and his wife Ann, of Eastree, near Whittlesey.Baptised on May 12, 1790, he was named after John Sudbury, a very wealthy cousin of his father's who died unmarried in 1815 and left several very generous bequests John Hurry and John's children.( My g-g-g-g grandfather Joseph Bishop was also left a bequest in John Sudbury's will).
Fanny Barnes had only a year and a half of marriage with her husband...John Sudbury Hurry was buried at St. Mary's, Whittlesey,on January 24, 1819, aged only 28 years.Fanny never remarried,and after living for a period in Market Deeping, Lincolnshire(where her sister Eleanor had lived after her marriage to publican Thomas Measures), Fanny moved to Stamford, Lincolnshire, where her elder sister Sarah Bishop resided. In the 1861 census she was lodging in St. Paul's Street, Stamford, with Eliza Bishop, the widow of her nephew William Bishop, and Eliza's sister Ann Gilbert.
Frances Barnes Hurry died at Stamford in 1867, aged 77 years.
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