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Re: Piecing Together Ann Williamson’s Family Tree Spofforth (Harrogate)
« Reply #9 on: Monday 09 December 24 09:07 GMT (UK) »
The Richard Williamson and Ann Wood marriage is on FindMyPast. They have the Bishops transcripts. It is in December 1680. I think Ancestry must have the parish records because the layout of the pages is different. Ancestry have each year separately, instead of a scan of a whole register with a range of years. Looking at their records for 1680, it consists of one double page image with the left hand side marriages from June 1677 to June 1680, but the right hand side, instead of continuing marriages, it has burials from August 1677 to June 1678. Their are three other 1680 marriages missing in the Ancestry records.
Their records for 1681 are three images. The first shows a right hand page only, with marriages starting at July 1681 and going on to 1683. The other two images in the 1681 batch are baptisms and burials.
So it looks like Ancestry have missed scanning a page or the relevant page with marriages from the end of 1680 and beginning of 1681 has got lost from the register over the years, but fortunately the BT was made before the loss.
Berks / Oxon: Eltham, Annetts, Wiltshire (surname not county), Hawkins, Pembroke, Partridge
Dorset / Hants: Derham, Stride, Purkiss, Sibley
Yorkshire: Pottage, Carr, Blackburn, Depledge
Sussex: Goodyer, Christopher, Trevatt
Lanark: Scott (soldier went to Jersey CI)
Jersey: Fowler, Huelin, Scott

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Re: Piecing Together Ann Williamson’s Family Tree Spofforth (Harrogate)
« Reply #10 on: Wednesday 25 December 24 16:31 GMT (UK) »
Thank you, LizzieL, for the helpful information

Richard Williamson, Gent., and Ann Wood, both of this parish, were married by license on December 3rd, 1705.

I noticed the term “Gentleman” (Gent.) in the record. Does this term simply mean “bachelor,” or does it indicate a connection to the aristocracy?

Thanks