Sarah Hall of Diss, born about 1830

[WilliamKane]

No luck. Sarah Cain B.1854 isn't in the baptism records for St. Joseph's church. They go up to January of 1854 but the next volume is missing so I'll have to go and see the priest there, whom I know, to ask whether they have anything. It seems though that they must've been destroyed or lost at some time or other.
There IS Sarah Cain in the the list of children registered in 1854 and it is probably her but how to prove it?! I'm really fed up, with looking at microfilm and computer screens all day. However, thus is the lot of a genealogist I suppose. 

[lizdb]

No luck with a marriage?

If not, then we still dont know if she was likely to have been born Cain/cane etc, or if she was one of the Sarah Hills births , born before Sarah senior met Mr Cane

[WilliamKane]

Of course! You're right. After spending so much time looking for her, I forgot to look for a marriage. I'm there today (the archives) though so......... 

[lizdb]

Visits to Record Ofices are like that....... they always lead on to a 'next time I'll .......'      

[WilliamKane]

Nothing. The church has no records as they gave them all to the archives. At the archives, I checked and there are no marriage records for that early, for William and Sarah. It looks like that's that. 

[lizdb]

You never know what might come up at a later date to help confirm if Sarah jnr was of the union with William Cane or not. Family History can be like that, you think something has reached its end, and then suddenly out the blue, something comes up that gives a lead. But even if it doesnt, I guess it is not too restrictive in your research of the famly not to konw.

It does seem though, from the lack of record in the indexes, that Cane and Sarah senior, never married. Was William Cane perhaps already married or something?

[WilliamKane]

No, I think they did marry. It's just that if it was in St.Joseph's church, they don't have the records for it. Baptisms for their other children (after Sarah) show Sarah's maiden name as Hall so I'm certain they were married.    I mean, she was in the records as Sarah Cane or whatever spelling they used but also, under her maiden name so they MUST have been married. Mustn't they? ha ha

[The Yokel]

As Sarah(1830) was in Newcastle in 1851, just a few years before Sarah(1854) was born, it might be worth checking the PR’s there, even though the 1861 census says that Sarah(1854)  was born in Gateshead.
FreeBMD has some Sarah Hall births around that time, there is also a marriage ref  Newcastle T 10b 114 Sept Q 1859 which only has three names
Sarah Hall
Ann Sewell
James Smart
If Sarah married James Smart    but if Ann married him who did Sarah marry

I have a couple who were baptising children which also had her maiden name on the birth cert, but could never find their marriage nor what happened to his first wife. Just discovered she had been living in the lunatic asylum for 30 years

Sorry I didn’t answer your post about the Norfolk Marriage Index, this is a CD sold by the Norfolk Family History Society and list marriages in Norfolk (obviously) from 1801 to 1837.
See  http://www.norfolkfhs.org.uk/bookstall/

As you have the baptism for Sarah 1830, it might be worth posting a request on the Northumberland board for a lookup re Sarah 1854, put a link to this thread so people don't duplicate all lizdb's hard work


yokel

[WilliamKane]

Thank you. I've done that. Now let's wait and see!