Thomas Middleton « on: Wednesday 02 November 05 17:06 GMT (UK) »
I would like some help in stablishing the name of the lady my 4 x gt Grandfather married. He was Thomas Middleton born in Stowe, Hunts 1821 and married Mary ? who was born in Castle Bysham, Lincs. Any help greatly appreciated. Any other person who might be connected to this family please reply also. Tks
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Ross Shipley Matlock Rose : Leicestershire Stanton White : Middlesex/Surrey Middleton : Huntingdonshire
The usual way of finding a marriage would be to trawl through the GRO indexes on either FreeBMD http://freebmd.rootsweb.com/cgi/search.pl or use a pay per view site such as www.1837online.com or check the indexes on fiche at your nearest LDS Family History centre or main library
I assume you have taken the information from the 1851 census, where they had a 5 year old child - indicating a marriage of perhaps 1844-46
On FreeBMD 1844 is only about half transcribed and the second half of 1845 has been barely started, so I think 1837 is your best bet - but that will not give you the lady's name. If you find a likely marriage of Thomas then you would need to order the certificate, specifying that the GRO should only issue a certificate if the spouse is Mary.
That's the best I can offer - have you checked later censuses to see if an in law was staying with them? You might get lucky! But I've just had a quick look at 1861-71 and there was no-one.
Regards
David
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Census information is Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk Beds: Cople: Luke/Spencer Everton: Hale Henlow: Cooper/Watts/Sabey Potton: Merrill Southill: Faulkner/Litchfield/Sabey Woburn/Husborne Crawley: Surkitt Hunts: Gt Gransden: Merrill/Chandler/Medlock Toseland: Surkitt/Hedge/Corn Cambs: Bourn: Bowd Eltisley: Medlock Graveley: Ford/Revell