Harriet Ann Gascoyne Moon
- Christened: 5th November 1871
Research Notes:
Malcolm Hutton notes:
So having found the illegitimate daughter Harriet Ann Moon born to Lucy and baptized on 5th November 1871, she would have been at least two months pregnant when she was staying at the White Hart Inn at March, Cambridgeshire apparently with the Sharman Family on 2nd April 1871 census night. Henry was the baker at the Inn.
I don't think she was at all related to Henry Levi Sharman whose parents were Samuel and Rebecca Sharman. Though born in Woolsthorpe, Lincolnshire, Henry married Susan Case in London.
Marriage Dec 1855 Susannah Case and Levi Sharman
… Whilst Samuel, Rebecca and Levi appear to be very Jewish, his siblings were named, Priscilla, Charles, and Augustus. In 1851, Four years before they got married Susan Case was a housemaid at what must have been another Inn at March, Cambridgeshire and Henry Levi Sharman was the Groom at the same address. Therefore main reason to get married in London would I think to have a ceremony at a Synagogue.
It all boils down to Lucy going to nearby March from Manea to have her baby, Harriet Ann Gascoyne Moon, away from local gossip. I'm just wondering if Gascoyne might have been the father or if not then perhaps Lucy's mother.
There was a John Gascoyne born in Manea in 1814 and he got married in 1842 - so could he have been the father?
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