Edward Trahar/Traher (1770 or 1811)

[qu1ckdry]

Thanks for this. I've checked both the
- St Gluvias Register between 1790-1810 (to include "base born" [new terminology for me!]).
 https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:S3HY-65ZQ-3?i=60&wc=3CB8-3TR%3A138123201%2C141408201%2C1582892802&cc=1769414
- Perran-ar-worthal Register between 1800-1811
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:S3HT-6SDQ-C2?i=21&wc=3CB4-7M8%3A138123201%2C140472701%2C1582890208&cc=1769414

In 1811 there's an Edward Trahar baptised in Perranarworthal to Hopson Woolcock and Mary Trahar. This is the Edward that ancestry think is correct but I'm not convinced. It would mean he was 16 when he married Jane Underwood (who would have been 26!).

Not sure where to go from here. The registers don't look like they have gaps. I suppose I could check other Parish's in the area? Maybe see if there are any newspaper clippings for a baptism? No idea if that would have been a common thing at the time.

[rosie99]

In 1811 there's an Edward Trahar baptised in Perranarworthal to Hopson Woolcock and Mary Trahar. This is the Edward that ancestry think is correct but I'm not convinced. It would mean he was 16 when he married Jane Underwood (who would have been 26!).

These hints come from peoples trees and not documentary evidence so you are right to query it.  Bear in mind it was a baptism and not a birth so he may have been born a few years earlier.

Have you tried tracing Mary Trahar to see whether she married.

ADDED
Have you located the marriage licence for Edward and Jane

[qu1ckdry]

Ah yeah good point! So he may well have been older. I have the marriage certificate for Edward and Jane (on ancestry):
https://www.ancestry.co.uk/imageviewer/collections/1623/images/31280_199020-00512?pId=7858061

- 16 Aug 1827; Edward Trahar (Bachelor) and Jane Underwood (Spinster); Witnesses: Elizabeth James and John Wheeler; Location: Saint Mary Magdalene, Bermondsey

As you mentioned earlier the witness Elizabeth is potentially Edwards sister or cousin. No ages or indication of ages given though.

I hadn't looked into Mary actually, I'll do that next!

[qu1ckdry]

Mary Ann (1828) is Edwards (1803/1811) daughter. She had a daughter called Jane (1849) who is the one that appears as Henry Trahar's (1835) niece in the 1851 census. Jane has the surname Trahar as Mary Ann didn't marry until 1857.