Marriage of Evan Rees to Mary Thomas

[chr1st1nem1tchell]

Hi, Can anyone help please?

I'm hoping that someone will be able to help with information please - Evan Rees and Mary Thomas are my 3x great grandparents and they were married on 15Th May 1825 at Llangoedmor, Cardiganshire.
I am trying to find out if Evan Rees was a widower when he married Mary Thomas as on the 1851 census in the household with Evan aged 58yrs and Mary aged 49yrs, there is a son John Rees who is 36yrs (this would make Mary about 13yrs of age when he was born!).
Hence my query as to Evan Rees being a widower at the time of his marriage to Mary Thomas.
Any help would be greatly appreciated thank you   

[dawnsh]

Hi

You would need to have a look at the entry in the parish register and hope the information was recorded, marital status isn't always mentioned pre-1837.

Dawn

[Isobelruss]

That date was the Banns not the wedding,he was fron Bedwelty Monmouth it says so mayve a look at 41 census there

[keyboard86]

Hi looking at an 1851 is he the Evan Rees 63 Monmouthshire Mary 49 Cardiganshire and John 36 b Glamorganshire, and an Elizabeth 16 Monmouthshire?
Census ref HO107/2447/568/49
Keyboard86

EDIT or even 53/58 from original!

[keyboard86]

Hi again, really clutching at straws, as 1851 if him gives no occupation, but an 1841 possible??

Evan Rees 50 Not born in county
Mary 35 Not born in county
Mary 15
Elizabeth 7
John Jones 25 Not born in county
Plus a couple more?
In Abergavenny
Census ref HO107/742/ 4/31 / 54
Keyboard86

EDIT In 1841 Nantyglo Iron Works, 1851 Smokey Ranks both Aberystruth, Abergavenny Evan & John both Puddlers

[keyboard86]

Hi again, have been looking further, so could I ask how do you know for certain he married Mary Thomas in 1825 Cardiganshire, was Elizabeth aged 16 in 1851 your ancestor?
As if adhering to Cardiganshire marriages in c 1825 there is also a marriage to a Mary Jones in Llangynllo?
Keyboard86

[chr1st1nem1tchell]

Thank you all for your information and comments

The date for the marriage of Evan Rees and Mary Thomas was given to me by a family member, who is sadly no longer with us.

Elizabeth, the daughter of Evan and Mary was my 2x great grandmother, she married my 2x great grandfather Owen Parry on 30th December 1854 and it's their daughter Elizabeth Thomas Parry who was my great grandmother

So the search goes on.   

[keyboard86]

  Indeed the search goes on, 1825 to c 1835 a long time prior to birth of Elizabeth?
Keyboard86

[chr1st1nem1tchell]

Yes Keyboard86,

There was quite a gap, though I believe there was an older daughter Mary (1841 census) born about 1826 in Monmouthshire and who knows, there may well have been children in between.