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Somerset Lookup Requests / Re: CASELEY/URCH marriage look up please
« on: Sunday 13 July 08 20:00 BST (UK)  »
Hi Alun
Many thanks for instant reply, yes you have tracked me down. By the way I presume as the marriage was bigamous it did not need to be formally dissolved.  Would be happy to pass on my e mail address but dont wish to do so on this message board, is there any way round this?
Glad to know I'm not the only person with lots of lists of Urch's!
Cheers for now, Florence

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Somerset Lookup Requests / Re: CASELEY/URCH marriage look up please
« on: Sunday 13 July 08 14:56 BST (UK)  »
Hi Alun,
Thanks for your reply. There is a full (and fascinating) report of the Eleanor Harris Bigamy Trial at Bodmin on http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/read/CORNISH-GEN/2007-11/1195607943. It says Thomas Urch is of Westbury. I have extracted all the Westbury baptisms for Urch & there are only two possible Thomas' at about the right time. 'Mine' and one bapt 17.3.1816, he is only 18 in 1834, the date of the bigamous marriage, Eleanor being 33. Also I think he married  a Mary Mapstone at Bridgewater reg dist in 1840.  'My' Thomas would have been 31, a much better match for age, he died in 1856 at westbury, apparently still single, in his will he leaves his property between his siblings.  As far as I can tell he is the unfortunate 'husband', probably put off women for life!
The trial report says that his parents went to see Hall the main prosecution witness in Bristol.  This, & the fact that Thos had some siblings who also married in Bristol made me wonder if Richard Urch & Ann (Coombs) lived there for a while? However I think it unlikely.
I am descended from Fredk, son of John Urch. Fredk emigrated to MI, USA in 1876 leaving behind only his eldest son, my Gt Grandfather, hence I am in the Westcountry not in America!
I would like any details of descendants please.  I have done some work on them, especially those in the US, but a double check would be good.
Many Thanks, Florence Urch


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Somerset Lookup Requests / Re: CASELEY/URCH marriage look up please
« on: Tuesday 08 July 08 22:50 BST (UK)  »
Have also researched the Urch family of Westbury extensively. Wm Caseley & Sarah Urch are on my tree. Would like to get in touch with any other descendants of Richard Urch & Ann Coombes. Thank you Sue for info on the Casely marriage at St Mary Redcliffe which I had spent ages looking for. 
I now find that Sarah Urch's sister Ann married David Walter at Bedminster in 1824 and her brother Thomas married a bigamist, Eleanor Harris, at Mary Redcliffe in 1834. The other siblings all seem to have married in Westbury.  Does anyone know what the Bristol connection (if any) was? Could the parents Richard & Ann Urch have lived there for a while?
From Florence Urch

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