Reeve, Rebecca

Summary

Father: Jonah Reeve
Mother: Elizabeth Houston

Birth: 28 Oct 1778, Bocking, Essex
Birth Source: Baptismal Record

Death: 1q 1854, Maldon, Essex
Death Source: Death Reg. Index

Spouse1: John Terling, m. 20 Feb 1817, Heybridge Parish, Essex

Narrative

Her birth and baptism were recorded in Bocking Independent Registers:

• Rebeckah Reeve, Daughter of Jonah Reeve and Elizabeth his Wife, of the Parish of Bocking in the Couty of Essex (born on the Twenty eighth Day of October 1778) was baptized on the twenty seventh day of November 1778 By the Revd Thomas Davidson (Piece 1500, folio 14)

She is named in her mother's will as "Rebecca Terling (the wife of John Terling)."

She was of Haybridge and John was of St Peter's Maldon when they married in 1817.

She and John were living in St. Peter, Maldon, Essex in 1841. John was an Ironmonger. Fanny, Clark, age 10, was living with them.

The Chelmsford Chronicle, 26 Jan 1849
NOTICE TO DEBTORS AND CREDITORS
All Persons having any demand against the Estate of the late Mr. JOHN TERLING, Ironmonger, &c. Maldon, are requested to send particulars thereof to Mrs. Rebecca Terling, Maldon; and all Persons indebted to the Estate, are requested to pay the same to the said Rebecca Terling, within one month from the date hereof.
Dated this 23rd day of January, 1849.

In 1851, she was living alone, age 72. The census states she was born in Bocking. She was living in Southminster, Maldon, Essex.

There is a death registered for Rebecca Terling in Maldon in 1q 1854.

Research Notes

Sources

Baptism:    RG4, Essex Independent Registers, Piece 1500 (Bocking, 1738-1794), folios 14
Marriage1:  FamilySearch - England, Essex Parish Registers, 1538-1997
Death:        FamilySearch - England and Wales Death Registration Index 1837-2007

1841 Census:  HO107, Piece 0345, Book 3, Folio 11 face, Page 16
1851 Census:  HO107, Piece 1778, Folio 448 reverse, Page 21, Schedule 83

The Chelmsford Chronicle, 26 Jan 1849