Captain William Warren Rice

[chris_49]

It's also worth pointing out that Rice is usually a Welsh name -  from (ap) Rhys with a vowel shift. Related names are Price, Rees, Reece, Preece. Plenty of people of Welsh origin born in Bristol of course.

The given name Evans backs this up -  surnames of forebears often given as middle names. But there's also Talbot (English) and Stewart (Scottish).

[willsy]

I found a copy of the marriage

http://www.rootschat.com/links/01r1b/

EDIT***not taken you to the actual page! I searched the images, it's not too many pages ahead

[cjc1867]

Hi Willsy

Thanks a lot for finding that, I should now be able to take that as proof that he was from Bristol.

So it looks like Louisa was from St. Helena, but was that as in Island or bay?

Colin

[willsy]

I found this in the Bombay Gazette in unclaimed letters 1841,