BOAT FAMILIES

of the Leeds and Liverpool Canal and connected waterways

1863 - 1938 (75 years)

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Name	Christopher Pratt
Born	1863	Hull
Gender	Male
Occupation	Waterman, dock labourer, marine engineer
Died	24 Dec 1938	Scartho Road, Grimsby [1]
Person ID	I63233	Canal Family 1
Last Modified	21 Apr 2024

Father	Thomas Pratt
Family ID	F20168	Group Sheet \| Family Chart

Family 1	Elizabeth Fratson, b. Abt Aug 1861, Thorne
Married	17 Jan 1887	All Saints, Sculcoates, Hull [2]
Last Modified	21 Apr 2024
Family ID	F20167	Group Sheet \| Family Chart

Family 2 Madeleine Amelia James, b. 29 Nov 1868, St Davids, Pembrokeshire , d. 21 Apr 1905, Hull Royal Infirmary (Age 36 years)

Partners Abt 1898

Children

	1. Violet May Pratt, b. Abt Feb 1899, Hull
	2. Christopher Pratt, b. 26 Jun 1900, Myton Street, Hull

Last Modified 21 Apr 2024

Family ID F20189 Group Sheet | Family Chart

Notes

Christopher apparently abandoned Elizabeth Fratson soon after their marriage, and set up home in Milford Haven with Madeleine James, who is with him in Hull, in the 1901 census with three children born in Wales, two in Hull, all recorded as Pratt.
Christopher and Elizabeth are absent in the 1891 census and in 1893 she remarries as a widow. Madeleine is in Steynton, near Milford Haven, as wife of John Gibson of Hull, whom she married 14.3.1891.
The three older children were born/baptised as Gibson, the younger ones as Pratt, but no birth or death record has been found for John Gibson. Did Chrisopher use this name as an alias when he married Madeleine bigamously, returning to Hull and reverting to his real name after discovering that his first wife had remarried?