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marriage look up please
« on: Saturday 13 May 06 19:53 BST (UK) »
Would someone be kind enough to do a marriage look up
please for my g g randparents. I have searched on
free bmd but am sure I am not using it correctly.
Could get no results from it . They are William
Rogers b 1838 and Elizabeth Purnell b 1838 both living
Monmouthshire in 1859 which is the date I believe the
marriage ot have been. their first child born 1860,
Ebbw Vale, but they were living in Llangattock also.
Many thanks
Sandra

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Re: marriage look up please
« Reply #1 on: Saturday 13 May 06 19:56 BST (UK) »
Hi Sandra,

FreeBMD is not complete. If the marriage is not on FreeBMD, the complete indexes can be searched here, quarter by quarter:
http://content.ancestry.co.uk/iexec/?htx=List&dbid=8965&offerid=0%3a7858%3a0

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Re: marriage look up please
« Reply #2 on: Sunday 14 May 06 09:37 BST (UK) »
Many thanks,
Just looked up on ancestry and found an entry for
William North b 1838 clutton and Elizabeth Purnell b
1838 Clutton married in Clutton Somerset in 1866.. Only thing
that bothers me now is that this may not be the
right one. She is on the 1861 census living in
Ebbw Vale area with her husband and two children.
On the childrens certificates it says that she was
fomerly Purnell but now Rogers, indicating that they
are already married. I have tried to find a date before
the first child is born in 1860 but no luck to see if they
were married in Wales. Even more mysterious Elizabeth
disapears off the scene altogether by 1871. Her last
daughtrer born 1867.
Sandra

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Re: marriage look up please
« Reply #3 on: Sunday 14 May 06 10:15 BST (UK) »
Can I just put forward a couple of things that might be happening here.

first we have to remember that while we want our ancestors to be honest and truthful they weren't. They lied about things, they manipulated the truth, they let other people assume things so

They lived as a married couple there could be any number of reasons why they did not marry immediately from one of them being already married to waiting until a relative had died and left them the fortune in the will, whatever reason, they lived together but let people assume they were married. They would not tell the children this because children have to tell their best friend the biggest secret so the lids wouldn't know.
The information on the children's birth certs is what the informant told the registrar - Try to find a death certificate for Elizabeth and see who the informant is - and where she died.
The Clutton marriage could have been because they wanted to keep it quiet and so the nipped back there did the deed and came back to Ebbw Vale, the trains were available then.

Just my four pennorth from years of chasing some really good lying actors

Ann
GIBBON, MCDADE, BRIDGER, GUILFOYLE, MACEY, JOHNSON, BELLEW, NATHAN, GEORGE, CLARKE.


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« Reply #4 on: Sunday 14 May 06 19:51 BST (UK) »
Many thanks Ann,


Hadn't thought of some of those things and it makes
a lot of sense too. Wil take it all on board, thanksagain,
SAndra

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« Reply #5 on: Sunday 14 May 06 23:06 BST (UK) »
Glad to help
GIBBON, MCDADE, BRIDGER, GUILFOYLE, MACEY, JOHNSON, BELLEW, NATHAN, GEORGE, CLARKE.