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Thank you very much, JenB

Hi

Would anyone have the time, please, to look up this marriage in the Record Office? I've got the details above from the IGI but no more details than those given in the subject. I am particularly interested to know whether Alice is a widow and whether, if she is, the name of her first husband is given. If it's the same Alice that I've found in the 1841 census (as widow) her age is given as 25 so with the rounding down she could be up to 36 years old at her marriage if her age is given.

Many, many thanks in anticipation

Another visit to the Records Office is obviously needed but before the (longish) journey I thought it might be useful to ask you good folks out there whether you might have a lead. My ancestor reports a father, William, farmer at his 1858 marriage. He also reports a Sunnybrow birth.

Despite a thirty year trawl, both at the Record Office and through Ancestry, this combination can not be found in either the 1841 or 1851 - correction, pairs can be found which continue to live in Durham in 1861, which my ancestor does not.

The marriage entry in the Lincolnshire register lists both fathers as usual. We know that,by the time of the marriage, the bride's father was dead, though there is no 'late' or 'deceased' in the register. It is possible , therefore, that William Scott, perhaps born ~ 1800 may also have died before the 1841 census.

If anyone has a record of the death of William Scott (farmer) in Brancepeth I would be extremely grateful for the information

Thanks for reading this post

Hi Marmalady and Colin

Thanks for your replies.

I too had an ancestor 'removed' to her parish of entitlement on 'being with child'. She was housed in what was reported to me as being a house some way distant from the village itself. Judging by the baptismal entries in the register for 'bastard' children she was far from alone!

Do you not think, Colin, that expectant mothers did return for a bit of help with their first childbirth?It does seem a popular belief and might start to explain a course I'm following with an ancestor (not so far distant) who really seems to have covered his tracks