Cornwall Marriage c 1753

[taylorwallace]

James Jope to Hannah unknown, around 1752. Not on free reg or IGI although all children of marriage baptised at St. Dominick.  Date and location needed, please.
taylor wallace

[osprey]

Have you looked for the marriage in Devon, given that the parish is on the county boundary?

Have you got their wills to see if there any clues?

www.rootschat.com/links/06pj/

http://www.cornwall.gov.uk/default.aspx?page=14710  for copy records

[taylorwallace]

Thanks for the suggestions. I know, as a former member of Cornwall FHS, that Cornwall have a comprehensive marriage index which would show if this couple married there. I was hoping that as a one-off, someone could check, if only to rule it out. I will see if it is also at Sog.
taylorwallace

[osprey]

Sorry, it's not in the marriage index and the parish isn't covered by Phillimore's index for Cornwall either.

 

[taylorwallace]

very many tanks
taylor wallace

[hovermouse]

HAve you thought of looking in the Plymouth registers - I do research at Calstock parish archive, which is next door to St. Dominick - and I have found that sometimes people from this area seem to marry in Plymouth.  I wonder whether it was a way of getting round the age limits, or perhaps the girl was already pregnant, or perhaps they eloped to Plymouth, or it could even have been a status thing. It's also possible that they were quaker or other non-conformist which would be harder to track down.

[taylorwallace]

thanks
taylor wallace