Marriage -Bolton and Henderson

[elizabethh]

Thanks Gobbo. I have the correct death cert for 'my' Martha so can dispense with the other. I shall follow up on the strange marriage just in case but it is ring warning bells. I cannot trace having seen it and maybe ONS did not send it when the facts did not fit. (I have been at this puzzle for some years, move on, and then come back to it in the hope the tooth fairy has somehow fixed it! Or system enhancements achieve the same thing.)
Don't worry about rushing in with the obvious. I do not mind and may just have missed something but I have scoured the Scottish border marriages, Lamberton, Coldstream etc., Mgt was Presbyterian so a dissenters marriage is possible but where?
We know Edward died but cannot even find his burial. Most odd.

I sincerely do hope Ancestry "change the way it works" It doesn't at the moment. The old system where you got all years at a view was far better. Now if you click on one you never get back to the full set, just that year.

Thanks jora for the Bolton link. I will give it a try.

[O1dgobbo]

Hi Elizabeth

You are wise not to bother with the 1854 death certificate for Martha Bolton in Wooler.  The Bolton site recommended by Jora has an extract from the Durham Probate Catalogue "1855 Bolton Martha, Wooler, Letters of administration and will: T.A. 9".  This points to the death of a property owner and is almost certainly the Martha Bolton I found at Wooler in the 1841 and 1851 censuses, who therefore is not your Martha.

The Bolton site has data on one other Martha, who is too young to be yours (Edward would have been born when she was 11):

Births: Wooler, West Chapel Nonconformist, Northumberland
Martha Bolton, fem, b. 2 Oct 1815 c. 23 Oct 1815 parents George Bolton & Phoebe (nee Kennedy)

Good luck

Gobbo

[elizabethh]

Thanks again.
So where WERE Martha and Edward in 1841 and Martha in 1851?
But I really like the look of that younger Martha by George & Phoebe in 1815. too many coincidences. A George was our Martha's brother and Edward was staying with a 'relative' George in 1851. This George would be born 1807 so have we got a filial link?
The brick wall is still there but maybe the mortar is cracking a little? I do hope so.

[lynxafrica]

In 1841, Edward Bolton is at Middleton Hall in Ilderton, Northumberland with his uncle George.
Martha doesn't appear on the 1841 census as Martha Bolton, that I've ever found. There are quite a lot of illegible records for 1841 and also some with just initials.

I've been through just about every single birth register I can find in archives and online and so far, I can't find a baptism for Martha or a family connection, other than George & Edward.
I suspect she was illegitimate, as was her son Edward.
George Bolton (1808-1883) appears to be Martha's sister.
His own marriage to Barbara Moore is missing from the currently available data.
Either he didnt marry her or the records are lost.
Same for Edward & Margaret Henderson.

There are considerable gaps in the records available for North Northumberland, particularly as so many non-conformist churches were rapidly opening and closing. I'm missing a couple of baptisms and marriages for my own Boltons, particularly from the Wooler and Belford parishes.

We can but live in hope

Rob Bolton

[lynxafrica]

Oh, while I remember:
Martha Bolton, daughter of George Bolton & Phoebe Kennedy, born 1815 Wooler, married Thomas Carr in Wooler in 1859 and died as Mrs Carr in 1909 in Wooler. She appears with the correct family members in each census.