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Messages - Galium

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I have a list of Huntingdonshire marriage bonds and allegations [which used to be online, but I can no longer find it]. 
Susan Wright and Francis Turner (both of St Neots) were married by licence in 1704. Although Ancestry has St Neots registers, the 1704 pages seem to be in a bad condition, and there are no marriages indexed.
Cambridgeshire Archives should be able to supply a copy of the bond - I'm not sure of their current prices, but if you email your request, I have always found them very helpful.

There is also a bond for a marriage of a Francis Turner and Elizabeth Triston (both of St Neots) in 1715, but in this case the marriage doesn't seem to be in the St Neots register, although the page for 1715 is clear.

A Francis Turner, baker was buried at St Neots on 14 October 1732.

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Is it this man you are after?

Burial at Eccleshall Holy Trinity 4 April 1838:

William Plant 
age: 64 
address: Charnes

Age is not an exact match, but there's no other William Plant death registered in Stone district 2nd Q 1838.

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The Common Room / Re: Advice/Help with Previous marriage dissolved please.
« on: Tuesday 30 December 25 12:33 GMT (UK)  »
Have you tried local newspapers for a report of the divorce?  By the '60s, a divorce would have become less newsworthy than in earlier times, but that would depend on the circumstances.

Also, before the Divorce Reform act of 1969, (which came into force 1 January 1971), only the 'innocent' party could petition for divorce, so if either of the couple you are looking at had a spouse who didn't wish to cooperate (for a while at any rate), they might have gone to live together elsewhere before they were free to marry. 

If electoral registers and telephone directories are available for the relevant areas you might be able to tell how long they were still at the address where they lived with their first spouses, and when they start appearing in the place where they married.

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The Common Room / Re: Birth location and maiden name
« on: Wednesday 24 December 25 17:30 GMT (UK)  »
Looks like Laura and Ernest Smallbone had a daughter, Ada, birth and death registered in Newton Abbott district June Q 1920 Mmn Tozer.

It's possible that Ernest is Ernest Inkerman Smallbone born in Guildford in 1886 - records vary as to the exact year given. He was a stoker in the Royal Navy.  In 1921, he and Laura are recorded in separate places, both shown as married.

If so, he had two children with Agnes Westwater, born in 1922 and 1923. I don't find a marriage for them either in England and Wales, or in Scotland, where she was born. 
I can't find Ernest in 1939, although Agnes (shown as married) is with one of the children in Portsmouth. 
Ernest Inkerman Smallbone died in Portsmouth 4 July 1965 (National Probate Calendar)

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Lancashire / Re: Location of Richard Ashcroft in 1881
« on: Monday 27 October 25 17:18 GMT (UK)  »
Not especially helpful, but in 1881 on the same page as some of their neighbours in 1891: Peter and Ellen Forster; Josiah and Elizabeth Birchall; Joseph and Margaret Boyers and James and Elizabeth Broadbent, there are three properties recorded as 'uninhabited'. 

I think that the 'U' written there only means that the house was empty on census night, so possibly one of the three was the Ashcroft house, but the family were away for some reason.

Do you know of any relatives they might have been with? Or perhaps they were travelling, and not recorded at all.

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London & Middlesex Lookup Requests / Re: Richard Colby's wife's name
« on: Saturday 25 October 25 16:45 BST (UK)  »
St Martin in the Fields, unusually, seems to record the burials of miscarried infants.
I think there is one on 9 February 1623/4, of an infant of Eulalie and Rici Colby.

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The Common Room / Re: Tree viewers on Ancestry
« on: Saturday 25 October 25 14:05 BST (UK)  »
Thanks Comberton :).  Didn't see what they'd done with it.

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The Common Room / Tree viewers on Ancestry
« on: Saturday 25 October 25 13:53 BST (UK)  »
Until a month or two ago (not sure when; I don't often look), there was a button top right on my Ancestry tree labelled Activity, from which I could choose "viewers" to see if anyone had been looking at the tree that week. 

The Activity button has disappeared, and although in account settings the toggle for "recent viewers" is still there, there doesn't seem to be any way to use this feature any more.

Am I looking in the wrong place?

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After the Married Women's Property Act was passed in 1882, a married woman had a right to her own property, so whatever your relative possessed when she died in 1935 absolutely belonged to her, and was not automatically her husband's, either before or after she died.

She may have accumulated savings, inherited from another family member or worked at a job  that wasn't a full time occupation. (After she married, census records state that my grandmother's occupation was "home duties".  I know for a fact that she earned money from sewing.)

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