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Title: Bride's surname 1680 marriage
Post by: Eyesee on Tuesday 12 August 25 11:10 BST (UK)

Hoping someone can help with identifying the bride's surname from the top marriage in 1680 from Wrentham in Suffolk.

Fleetwood WOTTON & Elizabeth ?? were married ?? 15, 1680.

Ancestry has the groom as Cheetwood, but it should be Fleetwood. They have the bride's surname as CRASHFIELD, but I'm not so sure.

He died in Redenhall, Norfolk in 1720. His wife Hannah died there in 1713/14, so the above Elizabeth must have died before then as well. Haven't found anything on that as yet.

Thanks
Ian C

Title: Re: Bride's surname 1680 marriage
Post by: Vance Mead on Tuesday 12 August 25 11:21 BST (UK)

I see Crashfield spelled Crashfeild.

Title: Re: Bride's surname 1680 marriage
Post by: ShaunJ on Tuesday 12 August 25 11:21 BST (UK)

Crashfeild

Title: Re: Bride's surname 1680 marriage
Post by: gc1 on Tuesday 12 August 25 11:54 BST (UK)

Transcript on Family search site says ???

Name   Fleetewood Wotton
Spouse's Name   Elizabeth Crashfeild
Event Type   Marriage
Event Date   15 Jun 1680
Event Place   Wrentham, Suffolk, England

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:NLMK-BQD?lang=en

I think the e looks more like an o so could be Crashfoild

Title: Re: Bride's surname 1680 marriage
Post by: Galium on Tuesday 12 August 25 13:49 BST (UK)

I see it as Crashfeild too.  Do you have a particular reason to think that it isn't Crashfeild/Crashfeild?

Elizabeth wife of Fleetwood Wooton was buried at Redenhall 26 August 1681, their son William having been baptised there on 10 May.

Title: Re: Bride's surname 1680 marriage
Post by: Eyesee on Tuesday 12 August 25 21:35 BST (UK)

Thanks everyone.

I think it must be CRASHFEILD now as looking through the Redenhall PRs there was a Thomas CRASHFEILD baptising children in the 1680s there.

Now to find what his second wife Hannah's surname was.

Thanks
Ian C

Title: Re: Bride's surname 1680 marriage
Post by: hanes teulu on Wednesday 13 August 25 06:43 BST (UK)

FindMyPast has a marriage licence 22 Apr 1714 for a Fleetwood Wootton of Redenhall, widower. Mary Stanard named as bride.

Married same day.

Title: Re: Bride's surname 1680 marriage
Post by: Eyesee on Wednesday 13 August 25 06:57 BST (UK)

Thanks, I did find that one as well. Looks like she was the third wife.

Hannah would appear to be the second.

Mary married again herself in 1721 after Fleetwood died.

Ian C

Title: Re: Bride's surname 1680 marriage
Post by: hanes teulu on Wednesday 13 August 25 07:05 BST (UK)

Snipped from Vol 3 of Blomefield and Parkin's "An essay towards a topographical history of the County of Norfolk; ..."

The marriage licence refers to Fleetwood as " ... 58 years and upwards ..."

Title: Re: Bride's surname 1680 marriage
Post by: Eyesee on Wednesday 13 August 25 07:17 BST (UK)

The Redenhall burial register has Hannah's burial as 22 March 1713, which would be 1713/14 in the double date business. Death of 19 March would fit with that.

She is on Findagrave as well. Have suggested an edit to say that the date should be 1713 and to link her to Fleetwood who is also on Findagrave.
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/250511583/hannah-wotton
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/250511589/fleetwood-wotton

Ian C

Title: Re: Bride's surname 1680 marriage
Post by: hanes teulu on Wednesday 13 August 25 08:06 BST (UK)

I'd had a peep at FindMyPast burials and couldn't reconcile the years. Blomefield and Parkin were rectors of Fersfield and Oxborough respectively and vol 3 published 1769. 

Title: Re: Bride's surname 1680 marriage
Post by: Eyesee on Wednesday 13 August 25 08:26 BST (UK)

Yes I had one recently. The husband had the death written as 1888, but were reluctant to change it as that is what it looks like. He was not in any census records and when the wife died well before that year her cert said she was a widow.

Ian C