Duplicate Ceremonies in Two Locations

[virginiastokes]

Thanks for posting the two marriages for Thomas Small and Sophia.  Are your related to them?
I am very grateful for your pointing out  the duplication.  It is helping to solve some mysteries in my family tree.  I think I've worked it out -Sophia Denman was in a de facto relationship with Mr Drake probably William .  They had a daughter called Sophia Hannah Drake who was baptized on 26 September 1810 at St George in the East Stepney.  Then sometime before her marriage to Thomas in 1814 William died.  Sophia then married Thomas under her maiden name at his parish but because she was known at St James Westminster as Mrs Drake and had a daughter she had to be married as a widow under the name of Sophia Drake in her own parish. Incidentally Thomas Small purchased a marriage licence which was granted on 1 September 1814 at Westminster in the names of Sophia Drake widow and Thomas Small Esquire.

[JohninSussex]

Hi Virginia, if you look at my pages on the will of Matilda Sampson (see my signature below) you will see the link between the Small family and my Rutters.  The Smalls were Matilda's second cousins so less directly linked than all the other beneficiaries.  My greatx5 grandfather Edward Rutter was married in 1763 and his cousin Francis Small signed the register as a witness.