Looking for 1877 Marriage Records - Blyton/Devereux

[elisbrown]

Hello!

I am trying to find information on an ancestor of mine, Arthur Devereux. He married Betsy/Betsey/Betsie Blyton of Maplebeck, Nottinghamshire in April 1877 in Nottingham. I have found this record in the Civil Registration Marriage Index, which is a typed list and gives not much more information than that the date and name of the couple.

I am looking for more information on the marriage, specifically information on Arthur Devereux's origins. He is listed on various later censuses as being born sometime between 1832-1845 and was from Middlesex. I have found 2 or more boys with this name born in Middlesex around that time. Family lore is that he had an upper class accent, but it appears that he worked as a fruitier and later a gardener and a landscape architect after he left for the US, so the accent may have been adopted or affected.

In any case, I'm hoping that the marriage records might list parents for him.

Many thanks!

[rosie99]

Welcome to rootschat

The marriage index gives his name as Arthur Trafford Devereux 

ADDED as you mention another Arthur bn Middlesex
There is an Arthur Devereux with the middle name Llewellyn who was born c1841 Islington, Middlesex.  He married Louisa T Simmons in 1862 and appears with her and their children in 1871

[rosie99]

I wonder if he is your Arthur as the first child of your Arthur has middle name Llewellyn.  That needs looking at  .   Ignore that as Arthur L  is still with his wife in 1891

I think your Arthur may have married in a registry office or registrar attended so you may need to purchase the certificate. 

Marriage locator has this information - Sorry, we cannot locate the church for this marriage. The entry is located between entries for Nottingham RO/NC and Nottingham St Barnabas RC, both in RD Nottingham.

[QueenoftheWest]

There is an Arthur Devereux with the middle name Llewellyn who was born c1841 Islington, Middlesex.  He married Louisa T Simmons in 1862 and appears with her and their children in 1871

Assume you mean this man?:
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VRF1-L5W

He is still in Camberwell with his wife and children in 1881:
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q277-74CW

Whereas this looks like OP's Arthur in Nottingham in 1881:
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q27K-VDLS

With wife Betsie and no children.

Apologies if I have made any mistakes, but I have the most awful cold. I probably shouldn't be researching but I'm bored and this seems interesting 

Queenie 

[rosie99]

I did mean that one Queenie but found him 1891 but could not see him in 1881 so you are doing really well in spite of your cold  . 

[QueenoftheWest]

Thank you, Rosie, for you words of encouragement. This cold cannot defeat me!! 

Also, I don't know if I am missing something, but I can only see 2 children born to his couple?

A boy, Robert Trafford Devereux, whose birth was registered in 1881 in Nottingham (yet I cannot find this on the GRO for some strange reason) and who was baptised in 1883 in the same place, and a girl, Helena, whose birth was registered in Philadelphia in 1885. Those are the only children with them on the 1900 census in the U.S. Are there more that died young?

Queenie 

[Kloumann]

He is on 1901 & 1911 also. Hastings, Sussex & Eastleigh, Hampshire

[rosie99]

Surname is spelt differently 

DEVEREAX, ROBERT  TRAFFORD     BLYTON 
GRO Reference: 1881  S Quarter in NOTTINGHAM  Volume 07B  Page 285
 

[rosie99]

So definitely not Arthur Llewellyn Devereaux bn 1841 Islington then, that is one that has been eliminated