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Hi folks,

I've found the mentioning of a death in the "The Monthly Magazine" (Viewable online on Google Books) under "Provincial Occurances".

The death, in the 1st August 1822 issue on page 89, merely says "At South Shields" and "47, Mr. Nelless". I think it must actually be a misprint, the only burial I could find in the Bishop Transcripts in 1822 was for a Jane NELLES aged 47, known and already in my tree and would be a Mrs. not a Mr.

What i really want to know is, how did one go about getting occurrences like this printed in the Monthly Mag? Why this one above others?

Just a thought - if Catherine was a daughter of this marriage [1805] would she not be a bit young to be getting married in 1819?

Josey

For what reason would the registrar mention parental consent other than her being under the age of consent?

I have a Maria Anna, christened as daughter to James NELLES and Catherine, born 12 Nov 1806. This Catherine married on 3 Sep 1819 - a 12 year, 9 month, 21 day gap.  Is Maria Anna a variant of Catherine?  The age of consent for girls in 1819 was 12, wasn't it?

I'm getting desperate now  I guess I will start trawling the B.T's to see if this Catherine and William FOX had any children (the I.G.I. only goes to Dec 1812  )

Richard WHITE is turning out to be equally as useless.

I suspect that this Catherine NELLES is either a possible daughter of James NELLES and Catherine STRATFORD (m. 18 Sep 1805 at St. Hilda's, South Shields according to the I.G.I. but the bishop transcript is missing) or Catherine got remarried. If she got remarried, I don't see why she would need her parents consent though so a daughter seems more likely.

James NELLES had 2 daughters which were born in Seaton Sluice, Northumberland , which comes under Earsdon parish, and Catherine STRATFORD had a younger sister Ann.

... there is an Ann STRATFORD and a James WHITE married in Earsdon By North Shields, Dec 1807 (Bishop Transcript is useless). So perhaps Richard WHITE is a brother of James and therefore this Catherine NELLES's uncle-in-law  

If anyone wants to compare handwriting elsewhere on the page, this can be found at http://www.rootschat.com/links/073w/ Durham/ South Shields/ 1816 - 1825/ image 240.

Jennifer

Thanks for that! I should have done that 

Definitely Thos. Surname, try Dawkins.

I had that thought but I came to the conclusion it was unlikely to be DAWKINS.

This marriage is in South Shields, Durham and there are only a couple of hits for Dawkins' tied to South Shields on the census's searchable at Ancestry, and only a handful all told in Durham and Northumberland in the I.G.I