18 Aug 2023                   
                Wife: Nancy Goddard    
                Born: ABT 1781             in Hampshire  
              Census: 1841                 in Trumpington   (see note 1)
              Census: 1851                 in Cambridge   (see note 2)
                Died: 14 Dec 1858          in Cambridge  1
              Buried: 20 Dec 1858          in Trumpington   (see note 3)
              Father:
              Mother:
             Husband: William Henry Townsend     
             Married:  5 May 1801          in London  2
                Born: ABT 1774               
          Occupation:                      Exciseman  2
              Census: 1841                 in Trumpington   (see note 4)
                Died: 24 May 1845          in Trumpington  3
              Buried: 29 May 1845          in Trumpington   (see note 5)
              Father:
              Mother:
           F Child 1: Eliza Townsend      
                Born: ABT 1804             in Essex  
              Census: 1841                 in Trumpington   (see note 6)
              Census: 1851                 in Cambridge   (see note 7)
              Census: 1861                 in Landbeach, Cambridgeshire   (see note 8)
                Died: 1871                 in Cambridgeshire  4 (see note 9)
           M Child 2: Charles Philip Townsend      
                Born: ABT 1810             in Ickleton, Cambridgeshire  
          Christened: 1810                 in Ickleton, Cambridgeshire  5
              Census: 1851                 in London   (see note 10)
          Occupation: 1851                 Fundholder  
                Died: 1873                 in London  4 (see note 11)
                Wife: Mary Catherine Swayne  b. ABT 1813  
             Married: 1843                 in Wiltshire  4,3 (see note 12)

Sources:
(1) Monumental Inscription. 
(2) Ancestry family tree. 
(3) Newspaper report. 
(4) FreeBMD website. 
(5) Ancestry Select Births and Christenings. 


Event Notes
Note (1) Age 55, with husband William Townsend and daughter Eliza
Note (2) Age 69, widow born Leckford, with daughter Eliza.  Annuitant
Note (3) Dec 20 TOWNSEND Nancy of Cambridge 77
Note (4) Age 65, Independent means, with wife Nancy and daughter Eliza
Note (5) May 29 TOWNSEND William Henry otp 70
Note (6) Age 30, with parents
Note (7) Age 46, born Arkesden, with mother
Note (8) Age 50, born Arkesdon, Fund Holder, lodger with William and Rebecca
Fromant
Note (9) Mar 1871 Chesterton 3b 342   age 66
Note (10) Age 40, born Ickleton.  Fundholder, with wife Mary C
Note (11) Jun 1873 Hackney 1b 250   age 62
Note (12) Mar 1843 Wilton 8 627.
Feb 28, at Steeple Langford, Mr C P Townsend, of Trumpington, to Mary
Catherine, second daughter of John Pile Swayne, Esq., of the former place

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