GATEHOUSE & related families, Mere & Bower Chalke

[davierj]

Joy it all came together when I realised that the marriage did not take place in the Parish of Mere, but the Registration District of Mere  .   There are 12 Parishes so starting in alphbetical order...............I came up with (no prizes for guessing which parish I looked up last)

In the Parish of Zeals 17 Apr 1911 Arthur Ernest Gatehouse, 21, bach, lab, Gillingham, Frederick Gatehouse, Blacksmith married Ethel Emmeline Green, 21, sp, Zeals, Albert Green, Mechanic, by Banns.   Witnesses were Alfred Green and Clara Green.   
Zeals Church was built in the 1840s and prior to that marriages were in Mere.

Other Gatehouse (G) marriages in 1911
17 Apr George G, 23, bach, lab, Mere, John G, lab and Kate Ings, 42, wid. Mere, Tom Ings, Engineer
16 Sep Charles Allen Hurley, 29, Stourton, Philip Hurley and Lily May G, 25, Stourton, Tom G

Cheers Dave

[joy_w]

Dave - thank you so very much for this. Please let me know if I can repay the favour at any time. I'm not a million miles from the Surrey History Centre if you ever need a look-up there.

  12 Parishes - and it would have to be the last one!

Best wishes,
Joy

[davierj]

You're welcome Joy.   Thanks for the offer, at the moment my family does not extend to Surrey, although I did have an aunt who lived in Kingston on Thames!   I'll bear it in mind
Regards Dave

[Clazy2000]

Hi Joy

This info. may be of no use to you whatsoever, but on my Gt.Grans & Grandfather's (Sophia Ayres & Uriah Gray) wedding cert. Sept.25th 1873 at the parish church Mere one of the witnesses was a Fanny Gatehouse.
No other info. except that I think she must have been a friend of Sophia, as her name is parallel to that of Sophia so probably born about 1853.

Regards

Clazy2000 Gill

[joy_w]

Hi and many thanks for that snippet

I think the Fanny you mention is my great great grandfather's (Frederick Gatehouse) sister who was indeed born in 1853

The year after she witnessed your great grandparent's marriage, Fanny ceased to be a Gatehouse when she married George Parfitt in Mere in Dec 1874. I wonder if Sophia was a witness at her wedding....

Thanks again for your response

Kind regards

Joy

[Clazy2000]

Hi Joy
Many thanks for that. I have a further snippet of info. from the wedding cert. and that is the other witness was George Parfitt !!Obviously all friends!

It would be interesting to see who the witnesses were at Fanny and George's wedding.

Regards
Gill (Clazy2000)

[lady hendon]

Hi
I live in Gillingham & would be happy to check out any address's in either MERE
or Zeals that your ancesters once lived or perhaps a photo of the church they
married or check the graveyard for burials

Regards
Alison

[silasmarner]

Hi

Does anyone have a Jerome Gatehouse, born 1790 plus or minus about 5 years, probably in Mere, in their tree?  Also, does anyone know if records of the inmates of Mere poorhouse exist for the second half of the 18th century?

Thanks

[peterbees]

My great grandfather John Alford was in Motcombe and married a Harding. Sarah Kate was a sister to Albert Alford he married Mary Banks in Canada and fought in ww1. I have a site called McDowell families but there are lots of Alford's from Motcome and I am interested in the fellow Essau Alford that married one Jane? Gray from Dorset. Any ideas? Peter Alford-Seymour
www.peterbees.tribalpages.com