1823
Born at Littleport — John and Mary's third child
1823 at Cambridgeshire
1823 Littleport, Cambridgeshire— From Janet Brock’s research
Mum’s record Evidence
From Janet Brock’s research notebook.
Hannah Padget
1823 – 1893
✓ Validated against records · 2026-07-08
Hannah Padget was John and Mary's third child and their second daughter, born at Littleport about 1823 — about, because her baptism is the one record of the family's Littleport years that no index yet holds, and her age drifts across the records: 1822 on Mum's list of the children, 1823 on her own page, 1821 as the death index reckons it. She was eleven or so when her eldest sister Susanna married Thomas Crabb; Mum set that wedding on Hannah's page too, one sister's page remembering the other's day.
In the last quarter of 1842 she married Jacob Barber, of the Wesleyan Barbers lately come off the fen island at Witcham, and her life ran with theirs from then on: the Whelp Moor and Littleport years, the children — Rachel among them — and, with the fen's long decline, the family's move to Hull. In 1869 the two sisters' households became one story: Hannah's daughter Rachel married Susanna's son Isaac Crabb, and the Padget name went twice into this tree's spine.
She died in Hull — Sculcoates district — in the last quarter of 1893, in her early seventies; Jacob outlived her by six years. Of the nine children of John and Mary Padget, it is Hannah and Susanna the record we hold follows furthest: the two who, between them, made the Crabb and Barber lines kin.
Composed from validated records · 2026-07-08
- Birth
- 1823 Littleport, Cambridgeshire
- Marriage
- October 11th 1842 to Jacob Barber
- Death
- 1893 Hull (BMD Sculcoates)
- Parents
- John Padget and Mary
- Siblings
- Susanna Paget born 1815 John Padget born 1820 Hannah Padget born 1822 Mary Padget born 1824 Elizabeth Padget born 1825 Eliza Padget born 1828 Ann Padget born 1832 Sarah Paget born 1835 Matthew Padget baptised March 29th 1840, Littleport
- Children
- John Barber baptised December 25th 1842 Littleport Mary Barber baptised August 31st 1845 Littleport Rachael Barber baptised April 9th1848, Wesleyan Methodist Ely Susan Barber baptised September 23rd 1849,Wesleyan Methodist, Ely Mahala Barber baptised April 17th 1852 Littleport, burial April 21 d 1852 Jabez Barber born 1853, Littleport Elizabeth Barber baptised November 24th 1857, Wesleyan Methodist, Ely Alfred Barber baptised April 3rd 1860, Haddenham Hannah Kesiah Barber baptised November 30th 1863, Haddenham Eliza A Barber born 1866 Littleport
- 1835
- Sister Susanna marries Thomas Crabb
- 1841c
- Living with family in Littleport John Padget, 1796, born Cambridgeshire Mary Padget, 1796 born Cambridgeshire John Padget, 1821 born Cambridgeshire Hannah Padget 1826 born Cambridgeshire Elizabeth Padget, 1826 born Cambridgeshire Mary Padget, 1826, born Cambridgeshire Eliza Padget, 1828, born Cambridgeshire Ann Padget, 1832 born Cambridgeshire Matthew Padget, 1840, born Cambridgeshire Address: 10 Mile Bank Occupation of all the family: Agricultural Labourers Immediate neighbours: Thomas and Mary Crabb
- 1842
- Marries Jacob Barber
In your grandmother’s words · from her notebook
Family
Parents
The children of John & Mary
Marriage
Children
Life
Confirmed — anchored to a recordEstimated — inferred
1835
In 1835
1835
Sister Susanna marries Thomas Crabb— From Janet Brock’s research
Mum’s record Evidence
From Janet Brock’s research notebook.
1841
Census · 1841
1841
Living with family in Littleport John Padget, 1796, born Cambridgeshire Mary Padget, 1796 born Cambridgeshire John Padget, 1821 born Cambridgeshire Hannah Padget 1826 born Cambridgeshire Elizabeth Padget, 1826 born Cambridgeshire Mary Padget, 1826, born Cambridgeshire Eliza Padget, 1828, born Cambridgeshire Ann Padget, 1832 born Cambridgeshire Matthew Padget, 1840, born Cambridgeshire Address: 10 Mile Bank Occupation of all the family: Agricultural Labourers Immediate neighbours: Thomas and Mary Crabb
— From Janet Brock’s research
Mum’s record Evidence
From Janet Brock’s research notebook.
1842
Married Jacob Barber — registered Q4 1842, Ely
1842 at Littleport, Cambridgeshire
Hannah Padget × Jacob Barber — Q4 1842 — Ely district, Cambridgeshire.— GRO marriage index — Hannah Padget & Jacob Barber, Q4 1842, Ely
Confirmed in index record Evidence
Found in an index or transcript — the original page not yet read:
- GRO marriage index — Hannah Padget & Jacob Barber, Q4 1842, Ely — England & Wales marriages 1837-2005 (GRO index), Q4 1842, Ely district — Hannah Padget, the sole result with spouse Jacob Barber. Mum's page (and the Barber pass) gives the church: St George's, Littleport. Searched findmypast, 8 July 2026. index entry — original not yet seen
1842
Married Jacob Barber
11 October 1842
October 11th 1842 to Jacob Barber— From Janet Brock’s research
Mum’s record Evidence
From Janet Brock’s research notebook.
1893
Died at Hull — Sculcoates district
1893
Hannah Barber — birth year 1821 — death Q4 1893 — Sculcoates district, Yorkshire.— GRO death index — Hannah Barber, Q4 1893, Sculcoates
Confirmed in index record Evidence
Found in an index or transcript — the original page not yet read:
- GRO death index — Hannah Barber, Q4 1893, Sculcoates — England & Wales deaths 1837-2007 (GRO index), Q4 1893, Sculcoates district, Yorkshire — Hannah Barber, birth year 1821 as the index computes it; the sole result for the name in the district that year. Confirms Mum's '1893 Hull (BMD Sculcoates)' to the quarter. Searched findmypast, 8 July 2026. index entry — original not yet seen
Our research
Hannah Padget — the missing baptism
Research · Littleport & Hull
Her marriage and death are pinned in the civil indexes, and her married life is evidenced through Jacob's households in the Barber pass. Her beginning is the gap: the CFHS baptism transcripts cover her sister Susanna in 1815 and the family's other children either side, but skip Littleport's early 1820s entirely. To do:
- Her baptism, about 1821–1823: browse the FamilySearch Littleport transcript film (baptisms 1718–1832) across those years — this also settles the 1821/1822/1823 birth-year drift. Ours.
- The 1842 marriage register entry (St George's, Littleport, per Mum) — post-1837 Littleport marriages are not in the transcript volumes; Cambridgeshire Archives holds the register. Jon's action if ordered — a purchase.
- Her censuses with Jacob (1851–1891) are read and cited in the Barber ledger — carry any upgrades there, not here.