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Here is the link. If you have never bought a cert online before you have to register which is free.
Make sure you select digital copy when ordering. Do not select pdf
https://www.gro.gov.uk/gro/content/certificates/Login.asp
Reference is Alfred Gadney. March qtr 1840 Headington Union Volume 16 Page 73.
You can buy a digital copy of the birth cert for Alfred for £3 but save your money. Are you aware that Alfred married as Alfred Gadney Wells?
Father shown as Richard Joseph Binns WELLS occ bootmaker
Ref your reply 7. There are numerous posts on Rootschat where children are registered in the man’s surname but the couple never married.
In doing so - one of 2 things can happen on the birth cert
The mother is shown as Susan Gadney nee Wells - giving the impression the couple are married
The mother is shown as Susan Wells
Do you have a copy of either of the first 2 children's birth certs?
Logic dictates that if they were married - why would she be referred to as Wells in relation to the assault charge in 1840?
Have been looking at the newspapers, there are a couple of reports in the paper of a Mary Gadney buried 17 May 1832 and both articles say she was married to Joseph Gadney, fisherman. Haven't found another burial yet for 1832.
By 1840 they had 2 children so the fact she is referred to as Susan Wells in the article coupled with the absence of a marriage entry post 1840 would suggest they never married
Childrens birth registrations show mmn as Wells
I cannot find very much information on Mrs Wells at all. She married Richard Joseph Binns Gadney some time after Richard’s first wife Mary Moore passed away in 1832 but before 1841 where she is listed as being married to Joseph (Richard). The 1841 and 1881 Census both have Susan’s Birth as 1816 but I cannot find any birth. Can someone please help me?
She's not likely to be Mrs Wells at all if she married Richard Gadney, unless you are suggesting she was a widow at marriage, in which case her birth would be recorded under a different surname.
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