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Title: Harris or Davies 1848 Marriage
Post by: glamwales on Friday 21 April 23 17:00 BST (UK)

Hi All

Please can you take a look at this wedding cert.

Its for a Jennett Harris - widow ( harris is her married name).  I think the father is davies ?  Ancestry has it as Harris

This cert is for a Jennet Harris and Thomas Edwards, Merthyr Tydfil, 1848.

Otherwise I have a harris marrying a harris ! which seems odd.

thank you,

Title: Re: Harris or Davies 1848 Marriage
Post by: glamwales on Friday 21 April 23 17:13 BST (UK)

p.s the first marriage has it has davies or davis.

thats if i have the right cert ! :) ;D

Title: Re: Harris or Davies 1848 Marriage
Post by: rosie99 on Friday 21 April 23 17:17 BST (UK)

Sorry I am confused as to your query

The marriage you are showing us has Thomas Edwards marrying Jennet Harris a widow whose father is named as John Davies.  Presumably prior to this marriage Jennet Davies married unknown Harris

Title: Re: Harris or Davies 1848 Marriage
Post by: Davedrave on Friday 21 April 23 17:17 BST (UK)

It’s a funny looking “D” but the rest is certainly “avies” and the first letter is nothing like the “H” of Harris, so I think it is Davies.

Added. I think there is a normal forward curve to the “D” but it is very faint, much fainter than the big loop behind the vertical line.

Title: Re: Harris or Davies 1848 Marriage
Post by: glamwales on Friday 21 April 23 17:36 BST (UK)

Thanks - sorry for the confusion.

This is her second marriage, after the death of her first husband Phillip Harris.   If i have the right orriginal marriage certificate in 1820 her maiden name would be davies. 

Title: Re: Harris or Davies 1848 Marriage
Post by: rosie99 on Friday 21 April 23 17:44 BST (UK)

I assume it was just the fact that Ancestry had transcribed the fathers name wrongly that you were querying it.  I agree with Davedrave that the first letter in her fathers surname is nothing like the H in Harris.

Title: Re: Harris or Davies 1848 Marriage
Post by: Zacktyr on Friday 21 April 23 17:47 BST (UK)

Hi, glamwales,

Here's the entire certificate transliterated for you:

1848.  Marriage solemnized at the Parish Church in the P(a)rish of Merthyr Tydfil in the County of Glamorganshire
No. 11
When Married:  Augt 1st 1848
Groom:  Thomas Edwards full age, widower, Collier, residence Penheolgerrig, father:  Thomas Edwards, Farmer
Bride:  Jennett Harris full age, widow, no occupation, residence
Penheolgerrig, father John Davies, Collier
Married in the Parish Church according to the Rites and Ceremonies of the Established Church, by or after Banns by me, William Rowlands Curate
This Marriage was solemnized between us, Thomas Edwards, Jennett Harris by X Mark
in the presence of us W. Rowland
Daniel Williams by X Mark

Title: Re: Harris or Davies 1848 Marriage
Post by: glamwales on Friday 21 April 23 21:03 BST (UK)

thank you so much  :) :)

Title: Re: Harris or Davies 1848 Marriage
Post by: Zacktyr on Friday 21 April 23 23:14 BST (UK)

Hi, glamwales,

You are most welcome.  I do a lot of transliteration and translation work.  So, this was an easy walk for me.  :)