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Devon Lookup Requests / Re: BURGOYNE Family of Plymouth (Ancestors of Cleopatra Cecilia Burgoyne, b. 1844)
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Elizabeth Prowse b 1787 Christow . I have another puzzle instead of an answer for you. My Christow PR transcripts show 3 possible baptisms:
17 June 1787 Betty d(aur) James and Betty (ne Mortimore )Prowse (m 5 Jan 1779)
11 July 1790 Betty d(aur) James and Elizabeth Prowse
28 Nov 1791 Betty d(aur) Samuel and Mary (ne SMITH) Prowse (m 11 July 1784)
The first two seem to be the same parents but there is no Christow burial record for the first Betty bp 1787. James and Elizabeth appeared in Christow from elsewhere in 1779 and there was never any later crossover with my Prowse family as witnesses to marriages. I have used witnesses quite a lot to determine which Betty or Thomas etc was which.
The last Betty bp 1791 was my 4x gt gfs sister and she married John Matthews in Christow 18 April 1815. My family had been in Ashton, just over the Teign from Christow since at least 1720.
I had presumed that the 1787 Betty had died and been replaced by the 1790 Betty and that the latter had married Richard Caseley in Christow on 25 Feb 1816. But I now note that the Elizabeth Prowse who married RC was a soj(ourner).
Just to add to the conundrum there was a marriage between John Smith and Suzannah Mortimore 25 March 1785.
Re Jane Burgoyne m Josias Prowse. Jane bp c 1801 censuses vague possibly Kerwyn Cornwall. I do not think this was the Loddiswell marriage.
17 June 1787 Betty d(aur) James and Betty (ne Mortimore )Prowse (m 5 Jan 1779)
11 July 1790 Betty d(aur) James and Elizabeth Prowse
28 Nov 1791 Betty d(aur) Samuel and Mary (ne SMITH) Prowse (m 11 July 1784)
The first two seem to be the same parents but there is no Christow burial record for the first Betty bp 1787. James and Elizabeth appeared in Christow from elsewhere in 1779 and there was never any later crossover with my Prowse family as witnesses to marriages. I have used witnesses quite a lot to determine which Betty or Thomas etc was which.
The last Betty bp 1791 was my 4x gt gfs sister and she married John Matthews in Christow 18 April 1815. My family had been in Ashton, just over the Teign from Christow since at least 1720.
I had presumed that the 1787 Betty had died and been replaced by the 1790 Betty and that the latter had married Richard Caseley in Christow on 25 Feb 1816. But I now note that the Elizabeth Prowse who married RC was a soj(ourner).
Just to add to the conundrum there was a marriage between John Smith and Suzannah Mortimore 25 March 1785.
Re Jane Burgoyne m Josias Prowse. Jane bp c 1801 censuses vague possibly Kerwyn Cornwall. I do not think this was the Loddiswell marriage.