Marriage lookup Batham/Champlovier

[Ruskie]

Forget that last post.
From the original image on Pallots:
Steele Sarah wid = Battham (possibly Batham) X'topher (there is something faded beside his name which may be a 'b' for bachelor)
St Marylebone
(A blue stamp says St Pancras Middx)
1785 Aug
lic
(this will married by 'licence')

[Aussie Roy]

Thanks Ruskie  looks like that Christopher Batham is not one of ours.  He was the only Batham I could find on ancestry.com before William. So I'm still none the wiser really. The image that I got of the entry was very black and I had to put it into my photoimpressions programme and enhance it . Roy

[Ruskie]

Batham is a fairly unusual name. Have you had a look for Bathams on the IGI?
... no, that's a lie, there are MANY on the IGI ...

[Aussie Roy]

Batham is a fairly unusual name. Have you had a look for Bathams on the IGI?


... Yes  Batham is not really an unusual name. I found it derives from a place name, Beetham in Westmoreland.  There are hundreds in Staffs and Derby. earlist record I could find in London though was John Batham at the Westminster Assizes for theft  17 James I  (i.e. 1620) . He was exonerated.

[Aussie Roy]

A breakthrough of a sort. The marriage banns are now on ancestry 24 th July 1814 St Mary of Lambeth botp