COMPLETED : Surrey marriage lookup 1736-1740 please

[kerryb]

Excellent news that it fits in  with a good 9 months as well;D

I thought I was on the right track.

Kerry

[Ravelin]

Yes Kerry.  It is indeed excellent news.  

I doubt there can be a better fit than a 9 month later baptism after a marriage.   

After learning that the IGI has converted the old dates between jan & mar before 1752 i think i need to review other marriages i previously found via that site to see if they still fit in with other family lines.

Revelin

[Ravelin]

Hello again

I have found a Mary Ellis baptism in Reigate 1715. She would be 22 if she was the Mary Ellis who married Jeffery Webb in Westminster.

Should i presume this Mary Ellis or another Mary Ellis from the Westminster area as the wife of Jeffery Webb ? If Mary from Reigate is the wife then why do they both go to Westminster to be married ?

Ravelin

[kerryb]

Hi Ravelin

Taking the fact that Geoffrey came from Reigate and the children were all subsequently born in Reigate she could well have had a connection. 

The couple going to Westminster to marry could be for any reason, perhaps parents didn't approve of marriage or perhaps she was working up there so in parish.

It is was me I would track down a copy of the marriage certificate from Westminster archives to see if it gave any clues at all.

Kerry

[Ravelin]

Hello Kerry

Thanks for your thoughts on Mary Ellis.

Yes i guess there could be all kinds of reasons why they would marry there if Mary from Reigate is the correct person.

Yes i think i need to look at the original Westminster PR to see if it gives their place of abode as Reigate.

The IGI gives just Westminster as the place of marriage but i am not sure which church in Westminster that could be. 

Ravelin

[kerryb]

Hmm yes that's an odd one, I had a look on Hugh Wallis http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~hughwallis/IGIBatchNumbers/CountyLondon_including_Middlesex_(N-Z).htm#W and the batch doesn't match any of those.

Kerry

[Ravelin]

That is very strange Kerry. 

Jeffery & Mary are certainly making it hard for me to track them down ! 

Ravelin

[ScottH]

Jeffery Webb and Mary Ellis are my great x 7 grandparents. I found their marriage today by chance in the "London, England, Clandestine Marriage and Baptism Registers, 1667-1754" collection on Ancestry.co.uk.

I think the reason they married there is something to do with the fact that Jeffery's first wife, Jane, died around the same time. The burial record gives a date of 23 Feb 1737. Jeffery's marriage to Mary took place on "12 Feb 1737-8" (so I'm not sure if it took place before Jane was buried, or the year after) at "Mr Lillys The Fleet". There are two documents recording the marriage, and in one Jeffery is clearly called a widower (and gives his occupation, husbandman), and both were from "Rye-gate"/"Rigate".

I can't find a baptism for Jeffery in Reigate, though there is a very good possibility a few miles away in Betchworth in 1711, son of Elizabeth Webb.

[Ravelin]

Hello ScottH

Jeffery Webb and Mary Ellis are also my 7x Great grandparents

I have also found their marriage at "Mr Lillys The Fleet" via Ancestry.co.uk since i last posted a message in this thread.

Jeffery's first wife Jane Rickman was buried 23rd Feb 1736 which was a year before Jeffery married Mary Ellis on the 12th Feb 1737.

I agree that the Jeffry Webb son of Elizabeth baptised at Betchworth 1st Jan 1710 is our Jeffery.

I am decended from Jeffery & Mary's son Edward born 1750 then Edward's daughter Mary born 1779.

Ravelin