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Topic: Unmarried parents in mid 1800's Kent (Read 315 times)
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bearkat
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It was unususal for couple not to marry.
Perhaps one of them was not free to marry. Have you looked for a marriage for either of them to someone else?
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Middx - Vaus, Roberts, Eversfield, Inman, Star, Holbeck, Wyatt, Bickford, Smith, Redwood
South Stoneham, Hants - Small, Hammerton, Grist, Fryer, Trodd
Beaulieu/Boldre, Hants - Woodford, Croutear, Beck, Bendell, Keeping, Harding
Kent - Bayly, Borer, Mitchell, Plane, Vernon, Farrance, Chapman, Medhurst, Lomax, Wyatt
Devon - Tope, Bickford, Foster
YKS - Quirk, McGuire, Benn
Nott/Derbs - Slack
Hert - Barnes
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bearkat
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Sometimes we can't find out why our ancestors did what they did. 
The authorities would only have been interested if the law had been broken, ie. a bigamous marriage.
It would be worth looking a the baptism entries for the children as sometimes the vicar thought fit to add a comment about the marital status of the parents.
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Middx - Vaus, Roberts, Eversfield, Inman, Star, Holbeck, Wyatt, Bickford, Smith, Redwood
South Stoneham, Hants - Small, Hammerton, Grist, Fryer, Trodd
Beaulieu/Boldre, Hants - Woodford, Croutear, Beck, Bendell, Keeping, Harding
Kent - Bayly, Borer, Mitchell, Plane, Vernon, Farrance, Chapman, Medhurst, Lomax, Wyatt
Devon - Tope, Bickford, Foster
YKS - Quirk, McGuire, Benn
Nott/Derbs - Slack
Hert - Barnes
L'pool- Plumbe
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bearkat
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The 1871 and 1881 census shows them as married - not as Thomas DARLING and Martha LANGRIDGE.
Are you sure they didn't tie the knot?
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Middx - Vaus, Roberts, Eversfield, Inman, Star, Holbeck, Wyatt, Bickford, Smith, Redwood
South Stoneham, Hants - Small, Hammerton, Grist, Fryer, Trodd
Beaulieu/Boldre, Hants - Woodford, Croutear, Beck, Bendell, Keeping, Harding
Kent - Bayly, Borer, Mitchell, Plane, Vernon, Farrance, Chapman, Medhurst, Lomax, Wyatt
Devon - Tope, Bickford, Foster
YKS - Quirk, McGuire, Benn
Nott/Derbs - Slack
Hert - Barnes
L'pool- Plumbe
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noah
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Well its hard to be sure. Heres the evidence:
1. No Langridge-Darling marriage in the Register between 1861 (Tom Darling (18) at home with his parents in Berkshire) and 1871 (Tom Darling living with Martha in Five Oak Green)
2. When the Tom and Martha' children were born, Martha registered them as Langridges, not as little Darlings. I have one of their birth certificates. It gives [blank] for fathers name.
3. When the children married, they married as Langridges. For example in 1898 Emma Langridge (b.1876 in Five Oak Green) married Horace Vousden at Christ Church, Tonbridge. Father's name is [blank] in the marriage certificate. But after Horace died she married again (1924, Tonbridge registry office), as a widow, Emma Vousden and this time she was finally able to say that her father was Thomas Darling (dec.), a barber.
4. Tom Darling, a barber, died in 1883 of TB at Five oak Green. His death certificate has 'the mark of Martha Langridge, present at the death'.
I realise that interesting info might well come from the parish registers of ?Capel, ?Tudeley, ?Hadlow, or ?E. Peckham. Unfortunately I happen to live in Canada, so don't have easy access to these.
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VOUSDEN, LANGRIDGE, CLINCH (Oxon)
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bearkat
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Sounds as though you have explored most possibilities.
Does anyone have access to baptism records of Capel, Tudely, Hadlow or East Peckham?
P.S. Did Tom DARLING leave a will?
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Middx - Vaus, Roberts, Eversfield, Inman, Star, Holbeck, Wyatt, Bickford, Smith, Redwood
South Stoneham, Hants - Small, Hammerton, Grist, Fryer, Trodd
Beaulieu/Boldre, Hants - Woodford, Croutear, Beck, Bendell, Keeping, Harding
Kent - Bayly, Borer, Mitchell, Plane, Vernon, Farrance, Chapman, Medhurst, Lomax, Wyatt
Devon - Tope, Bickford, Foster
YKS - Quirk, McGuire, Benn
Nott/Derbs - Slack
Hert - Barnes
L'pool- Plumbe
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noah
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I'm by no means an expert on finding wills. They just seem to pop up all over the place. However I did have a chance to check through the index at the London Family Records Centre. No luck there.
According to family legend, Tom was of aristocratic birth and couldn't quite bring himself to stain the family escutcheon by passing on the Darling name to his offspring by Martha, a coachman's daughter and simple country lass. Tom is supposed to have been disinherited because of Martha, joined the Met, been injured in a riot and finally come back to Five Oak Green to take up barbering....
Well Tom IS recorded as 'lame' in the 1871 census, and he clearly DID finish up as a barber, but other than that there isn't a whole lot of support for this colourful story!
The census clearly identifies Tom as a the son of a Berkshire ag. lab. After Tom's father died, the census shows that Tom's mother supported herself by taking in washing. And Martha's dad is consistently recorded as ag.lab, although she had a (probably distant) relative in 'John Langridge, Fly-Master of Tunbridge Wells', who did leave a will in 1850 (this will is on A2A but unfortunately its pretty much illegible in the on-line version).
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