Jabez Webb and Rosanna Smith

[JeannieTel]

I have been trying without success to find a marriage for Jabez Ernest Webb and Rosanna Smith.  I found them on the 1891 Census living at 23 Victoria Street Greets Green West Bromwich, he aged 30, she was 21.  Can anyone please give me a clue where to find a marriage.  I know Rosanna's maiden name was smith because of their daughters' birth certificates.  Any help much appreciated. 

['Tricia]

WELCOME TO ROOTSCHAT

What was the birth year of their first child?

Tricia

[JeannieTel]

Florence Edith Webb was born 1894. West Bromwich.

['Tricia]

Oh, dear - not a lot of help. They were already married (presumably) by 1891.

Were have you checked for this marriage?

Tricia

['Tricia]

I have checked the civil reg.lists from 1886 - 1895 for the marriage of a Jabez Webb anywhere in England and Wales without success.

Problems -
Jabez  may not be his birth name
They may not have married
They may not have registered the marriage
Roseanna Smith is too common a name to search under without finding a matching Jabez.
They may have married years after the children were born.

Do you have a birth cert confirming his 1st name

I will leave it there until I hear from you

Tricia

Do you have a birth cert confirming his 1st name

[JeannieTel]

Thank you for your efforts.  I have looked on freeBMD and Ancestry.  I have sent for two birth certificates because there were 2 children born 1869/70 in west brom area called Jabez Webb, but I was hoping that the marriage certificate would identify which one is mine via his father's name.    His daughters' birth certificates and Florence's marriage certificate all have him as Jabez Ernest Webb.

I suppose I may have to accept that they might not have got married afterall.  They were down as married on the 1981 census tho' and the girls' birth certificates give mothers name as Rosanna Webb, formerly Smith. 

['Tricia]

They may have married but not registered it. Maybe Jabez was entered incorrectly. I had an acestor called Edward Charlesworth. No sign of his marriage. Eventually found it - he had been recorded as Charles Worth.

So, who knows.

Sorry I haven't been able to help,

Tricia

[Outlaws]

Jabez and Rosanna Webb were my husbands great grandparents.jabez Ernest Webb is his correct name.  I have been looking up the family tree and saw your post. His father was Titus Webb born in 1823 and his Father was Eli Webb born in 1806.  Rosanna was born in Oakengate Shropshire and although the census gives them as married in 1894. I too cannot find a marriage certificate.  His sister Florence Edith was born in  1895, Gertrude in 1897, Ethel 1903, John Ernest, my Husbands grandfather in 1906, and Arthur in 1910. I presume your connection is with Florence.  I should be delighted if you can let me know any more information from your side.  Thanks outlaws

[JeannieTel]

Hello. You are right in your supposition outlaws, my connection is with Florence Edith, who was my grandmother. She married my grandfather William Thornborough in 1919.  She died, sadly, about 6months after the birth of her second child, my aunt Florence Jean, known as Jean. Her first child was my father Charles William.   I heard from another family member, actually one of G ertrude's daughters, that there was a brother who she remembered visiting them in a guardsman'is uniform. As a child, she remembered particularly his bearskin helmet 😊.  Would this be your husband's grandfather?