A marriage at St Margaret's Westminster 28 July 1768

[paddy418]

A brief report in St James' Chronicle for 28 July 1768 reported a marriage at St Margaret's Westminster between Sir William East, Baronet of Downing Street and Miss Jackson of the same place.  I have not been able to find the original entry in the parish register via FindMyPast, Family Search or Ancestry.  Where else should I look online?
Paddy

[dawnsh]

Hi Paddy

The entry is there, the groom is named as William Bess, the bride Elizabeth Jackson.

Dawn

[paddy418]

Hi Dawn
Your eyesight is much better than mine.  I just cannot find that original entry at St Margaret's Westminster.  Where did you see it?  I failed to find it on Ancestry.com; Family Search or FindMyPast. I know the date but am looking for any additional information that might be in the PR.
Paddy

[dawnsh]

It's on FindMyPast, parish marriages. The groom's name is William Bess. There are only 2 marriages on that day.

[paddy418]

Thank you Dawn.  I have now found the reference in FindMyPast for July 28 1768 and have looked at the original entry in the PR.  But they are not the people I am looking for and cannot reconcile their entry with the newspaper report in St James' Chronicle for July 28 1768.  It was a second marriage for Sir William East, Baronet (and MP) of Downing Street, and I doubt if he would have allowed the cleric to write down the name as Bess. His bride was reported as Miss Jackson, but other evidence has her name as Hannah, not Elizabeth.  I don't know enough about the Westminster territory and the marriage entry in FindMyPast has thrown me.  Is it possible that a marriage at the Abbey or at a private chapel at Westminster was not picked up by FindMyPast?

John Buckley

[dawnsh]

The registers for Westminster Abbey are not online, they are at the Muniment room in the Abbey

http://www.westminster.gov.uk/workspace/assets/publications/Info-Sheet-04-Regs-not-at-COWAC-1276253561.pdf

[Bookbox]

But they are not the people I am looking for and cannot reconcile their entry with the newspaper report in St James' Chronicle for July 28 1768.

St. James's Chronicle or the British Evening Post (London, England), July 28, 1768 - July 30, 1768; Issue 1157.

Married.] ... The same Day,* at Margaret's Church, Westminster, Sir William Best, Bart. of Downing-Street, to Miss Jackson, of the same Place.

     * = Thursday 28 July 1768

(from the Burney Collection of 17th-18th Century Newspapers -- image accessed online via Gale Cengage Learning)

[dawnsh]

The first wife was Hannah Casamajor

http://www.thepeerage.com/p2898.htm#i28973