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Offline Stuart_McDonald

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On the scrounge and on the cheap!
« on: Thursday 10 April 25 03:40 BST (UK) »
Hello everyone
Bit of a nerve I know, but I have discovered a wedding announcement via online newspaper access, but the image or detail is behind a paywall and I am loathe (and cheap) to subscribe for just one record.
If anyone has access to the Peterborough Standard (Cambridgeshire, England), there is reference to a marriage for David Culy & Mary Walker on page 8 of the November 3rd 1888 issue.  I am hoping some kindly soul might access it and reveal the detail that the notice contains.
I'd be every so grateful, really, I would.
Thanks in abundance in anticipation.
Best regards
Stuart Mcdonald, Western Australia.

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Re: On the scrounge and on the cheap!
« Reply #1 on: Thursday 10 April 25 04:45 BST (UK) »
The only additional info  was that the marriage was on 24 Oct at Wisbech

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Re: On the scrounge and on the cheap!
« Reply #2 on: Thursday 10 April 25 04:56 BST (UK) »
The only additional info  was that the marriage was on 24 Oct at Wisbech
Woo hoo Kay!  You're a star!  Thank you so very much, it has filled in one small gap, and that is a wondrous thing in my little world.  I really appreciate your time and generosity.
Every best wish,
Stuart

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Re: On the scrounge and on the cheap!
« Reply #3 on: Thursday 10 April 25 06:19 BST (UK) »
FreeBMD has the entry (but not the detail!)

December qtr 1888
Wisbech Registration District     vol 3b, page 1289

Culy, David
Walker, Mary
Garrad (Suffolk, Essex, Somerset), Crocker (Somerset), Vanstone (Devon, Jersey), Sims (Wiltshire), Bridger (Kent)


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Re: On the scrounge and on the cheap!
« Reply #4 on: Thursday 10 April 25 06:25 BST (UK) »
FreeBMD has the entry (but not the detail!)

And the devil is in the detail!  Thanks for the look-up, I have been able to access the date thanks to the generosity of browsers on RootsChat.
All the best,
Stuart

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Re: On the scrounge and on the cheap!
« Reply #5 on: Friday 01 August 25 17:07 BST (UK) »
Have you looked on the Family Search (free) site?  This gives census records as well as BMD records and there seem to have been several David Culys around Wisbech, possibly fathers and sons.  I think your David could have married Mary (Ann) Walker 1888, who was much younger than him, but possibly a widow, as some of the children named in the 1891 census were born before the 1888 marriage.

 In the 1881 census David is a widowed butcher boarding with Stoker family, who coincidentally have a 2 year old daughter called Mary Ann.
 In the 1891 census Mary Culy is 37 and David is a 60 year old butcher. living in Wisbech with children Arthur 7, Ethel 5, Julia 2 and David 1. 
The name David seems to have been passed down over generations in this family, as in the 1911 census David junior is now 21 and is a wood sawyer, son of the widowed Mary Ann, shopkeeper. 
I can't find a first marriage for David senior, but there's nothing from the start of registration in 1837. 

I hope I'm not leading you astray with these remarks, but you can take a look at the Family Search and FreeBMD sites - "free" is the word for both of these!
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FAIREY/FAIRY/FAREY/FEARY, LAWSON, CHURCH, BENSON, HALSTEAD from Easton, Ellington, Eynesbury, Gt Catworth, Huntingdon, Spaldwick, Hunts;  Burnley, Lancs;  New Zealand, Australia & US.

HURST, BOLTON,  BUTTERWORTH, ADAMSON, WILD, MCIVOR from Milnrow, Newhey, Oldham & Rochdale, Lancs., Scotland.

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Re: On the scrounge and on the cheap!
« Reply #6 on: Friday 01 August 25 20:02 BST (UK) »
This is a useful reminder to always try different search terms for newspaper items.

The item text is: (my transcription):
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At Wisbech, Oct, 24, David Culy to Mary Walker, both of Wisbech.


At BNA the OCR text for the item is:
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At Wlabook Oct. 24, amid Cody to Mary Walker, both et Wistaria.
Boyd, Dove, Blakey, Burdon

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Re: On the scrounge and on the cheap!
« Reply #7 on: Friday 01 August 25 20:12 BST (UK) »
This is a useful reminder to always try different search terms for newspaper items.

The item text is: (my transcription):
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At Wisbech, Oct, 24, David Culy to Mary Walker, both of Wisbech.


At BNA the OCR text for the item is:
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At Wlabook Oct. 24, amid Cody to Mary Walker, both et Wistaria.

My maternal grandfather was born in Wisbech. 

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Re: On the scrounge and on the cheap!
« Reply #8 on: Friday 01 August 25 20:39 BST (UK) »
AB - the vagaries of OCR.

You have transcribed perfectly. The OCR misread is understandable given the state of the original.