Hi! I'm looking for some information on the wife of my ggg.Grandfather John Robert EVANS. Her name was Ann FISHER, born c1826 and shown on the marriage certificate as being born in Menai Bridge, daughter of Henry FISHER. Henry is shown as being a 'Gentleman'. (No idea where the money went!)
John Robert and Ann were married on April 28th 1847 in Llantysilio.
I've looked in 1841, and cant find a matching family of Fishers, but I hope someone might know the family. There can't have been too many 'gentlemen' in Menai, surely?
John Robert and Ann seem to have had interesting lives. Shortly after being married, John, an accountant, took the family to Demerara in British Guyana where they had two sons Henry Dawson, and Havelock, and a daughter Elizabeth, and then two further sons after their return to England around 1864. They seemed to fall on harder times after that, but lived out their lives in Bangor.
One clue, from the wedding certificate is that one of the witnesses is an Irish man, Robert ALGEO b 1817, who is in 1851 as a road surveyor. Makes me wonder if John Roberts early career had anything to do with the Telford roads.
Anyway, thanks for any help you might be able to offer...
Neil