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I have the marriage certificate for Susannah Larking, Nee Couldery and Joseph Charles Austin. They were married in Deptford St Nicholas on 23/4/1859. Susannah is shown as a widow and her father was Richard Couldery, butcher. I believe she was born in about 1832 in Greenwich. There is a christening of a Susannah Couldery at St Alphege, Greenwich in November 1837, although the birth is listed as 26th March 1827 which seems too early. The parents are Richard and Elizabeth Couldery. Susannah appears on the 1841 census as a charity girl at the Royal Hospital School Greenwich. I believe she married James Larking in 1850 in Lewisham (there is a bmd entry which fits, although I don't have the certificate). They had two children James (b. 1851) and Annie (b. 1854). Presumably James died some time after 1853. I have had a look at the admission records for the Royal Hospital School and can't find her so it seems likely that she was in the workhouse side of it, rather than the naval side (as her father wasn't in the navy). I can't trace Richard and ELizabeth in 1841 so I don't know whether they were already dead, or have been transcribed wrongly on Ancestry (quite likely!). I would be grateful for any other info on the Couldery's. Susannah was my G. G. Grandmother.