He was born 16 February 1818 and baptised 1 March 1818 at Whepstead (late Marshall, labourer), a son of Thomas Crack and Susan formerly Marshall.
He married Elizabeth Copsey in the Bury St Edmunds district in the June quarter 1845, and no children of the marriage have been found.
In 1851, at 3 Yard, St Andrew’s Street North, Bury St Edmunds, he was aged 33, a labourer and born at Debston. Elizabeth was aged 27 and born at Mildenhall.
In 1861, at 25 Chalk Lane, Bury St Edmunds, Richard Crack, was aged 44, an agricultural labourer and born at Whepstead. His wife Elizabeth was aged 33 and born at Mildenhall.
There is a burial of a Richard Crack in Bury St Edmunds Cemetery 13 December 1870. He was aged 58 and a labourer of 11 Reeds Buildings, Chalk Lane, Bury. Whilst the age is too great, it is the correct burial, because Elizabeth continued to live there, as Elizabeth Hayhoe.
In 1871, at 11 Reeds Buildings, Bury St Edmunds, she was the head of the household, a widow aged 40, a laundress? and born in Suffolk, Worlington (the next parish to Mildenhall).
Elizabeth Crack married secondly Ezekiel Hayhoe in the June quarter 1871 and in the Bury St Edmunds district.
In 1881, at 11 Reeds Buildings, Bury St Edmunds, Ezekiel Hayhoe was aged 60 an agricultural labourer born in Westley and Elizabeth, his wife, was aged 50, born in Mildenhall, and partially blind.
Posted December 2016