We can only find one Nicholas Hill who was a farmer in St Just.
Mary named him as her father. True or massive coincidence?
He died in 1810. What would the chance be of the Mary Hill born 1820 knowing about him?
Thanks for your interesting comments, which could well have been the case. Still puzzles me that a 21 year old man would want to marry a 36 year old woman - but maybe there were reasons we don't understand.
The Mary born in Marazion in 1920 has no father's name listed in the old parish register, only a mother, Mary. Does this imply she was born out of wedlock?
Otherwise, as you say the ONLY Mary with father Nicholas recorded in the entire county of Cornwall between 1800-1820 listed, is the 1804 birth in St Just in Penwith entry.
She had three children after marrying a 21 yr old Robert Edwin Ford in 1840 in Devon:William Henry 1842 - migrated to NZ in 1863, and later to Australia, date of death unknown.
Mary Jane 1844 - 1912
and Henrietta 1846 - who died as a child in 1852.
A stupid question perhaps, but given that nutrition was perhaps not as good in those days, were women still of child bearing age in their late 30s/early 40s at the time?
