William Doughty in Raynham

[MKsylvia]

Hi MIK

Thanks for trying to help.  We now have 4 families that need this information and we are trying to  work together.

We know he wasn't married in East/West Raynham, Neither did he marry in Mildenhall.  So presumably somewhere in between, but this is a lot of parishes to cover, all the children were born in Mildenhall as far as we know.  We have searched all Norfolk parishes but cannot come up with a likely marriage.

Your point about his wife's birthplace on the census...   she died in 1803 so nothing to be found there.

One option might be records showing him leaving or entering a parish ie poor law, if anyone has access to such things.

Any more help would be gratefully received by all of us.  Thanks

[kaysii]

There are a lot of William Doughtys around. Using family pilot search for marriages in England,  there is a William Doughty of Cromer marrying an Elizabeth Doughty in Whitwell 13 December 1797. You can find this record on the parish registers. You will need to check if there is a William Doughty born in Cromer or if the couple lived and died in Whitwell whilst your William were in Mildenhall. You can find the Whitwell record on the Norfolk registers image 36 of the 1752-1812 registers.

If it is the right one, he would have been underage. Also, the Mildenhall births of William and Elizabeth Doughty in the family pilot search have one who was born in 1792 and some after 1803. As they seem to be baptised a long time after they were born, they might have been born elsewhere.