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Re: Melchbourne - LOVELL/WRIGHT
« Reply #15 on: Monday 19 November 07 18:35 GMT (UK) »
The Northamptonshire Marriage Index has

Charles WRIGHT of this parish to Mercy TAYLOR of this parish
at Wollaston 14th Nov 1751

To be listed in the 1762 militia list Charles would be no older than 45, so born 1717 or later.

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Re: Melchbourne - LOVELL/WRIGHT
« Reply #16 on: Monday 19 November 07 19:41 GMT (UK) »
Matt

Beds Archives site is not quite complete so it is worth looking through the ''A2A'' site both in Northants and Bedfordshire - click on there and you will see what I mean.

I think those LOVELLs were Northants before 18th/19th C though I havent got back that far with the ones I am looking for ...they had bits of farm land and so forth... and LOVELL was spelt a number of ways as you can well imagine  Roll Eyes

People usualy married in the bride's parish - but that isn't a hard and fast rule? 

If they were under age/or widows/widowers they may have married by licence [rather than having to wait for the banns to be read] and that may be something to research also?

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Bedfordshire: Worker [Flitton]; Ames [Kempston]; Manton [Kempston]; Morris [?]; Valentine [Kempston]; Two & Osborn [Cranfield]

Herfordshire and West London: Brown [Kent in early 19th C]; Blackwell.
McCarthy [Clonakilty, County Cork - searching for needles in the haystack!] and LOSTY [Dublin]
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Re: Melchbourne - LOVELL/WRIGHT
« Reply #17 on: Monday 19 November 07 21:00 GMT (UK) »
Hi

Marilyn - thanks so much for finding the marriage to Mercy. For some reason the Northants archivist couldn't find the record so I assumed it didn't exist Roll Eyes At last I have a maiden name for her and a marriage date!

Cathy - thanks for the A2A hint, i've had a dig around and nothing has immediately sprung up but i'll keep searching. I'm beginning to think the Lovell connection with Melchbourne might be a red herring. I'm also wondering if the archivist didn't find Charles' marriage to Mercy, then maybe Charles' birth was also overlooked and the answer I seek is actually in Northants.

Interesting, intriguing and irritating this family research lark isn't it?

Cheers

Matt
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Re: Melchbourne - LOVELL/WRIGHT
« Reply #18 on: Tuesday 20 November 07 18:14 GMT (UK) »
The marriage index that the Northants Record Office use is
the Bollen-Bloore index that was complied on paper slips from the Bishops Transcripts.
As some years are missing from the BTs for most parishes there are many marriages missing from the index that can be found in the parish registers.

The Northants Marriage Index CDs were compiled using both the BTs and the parish registers.

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Re: Melchbourne - LOVELL/WRIGHT
« Reply #19 on: Wednesday 28 November 07 20:51 GMT (UK) »
Were there no relevant surviving Wills?

Please check out the site I have at www.tribalpages.com
[enter ''Lovellfamily'']

I can not see any immediate link to your family - but I have both LOVELL & WRIGHT there

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Bedfordshire: Worker [Flitton]; Ames [Kempston]; Manton [Kempston]; Morris [?]; Valentine [Kempston]; Two & Osborn [Cranfield]

Herfordshire and West London: Brown [Kent in early 19th C]; Blackwell.
McCarthy [Clonakilty, County Cork - searching for needles in the haystack!] and LOSTY [Dublin]
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Re: Melchbourne - LOVELL/WRIGHT
« Reply #20 on: Thursday 29 November 07 12:02 GMT (UK) »
Hi Catherine

I couldn't find any surviving wills. I've also had a look through your site and unfortunately can't find a match for any of my (known) ancestors.

It's a great site though and you've obviously been working on it for some time!

Many thanks for your help

Matt
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Re: Melchbourne - LOVELL/WRIGHT
« Reply #21 on: Friday 30 November 07 20:15 GMT (UK) »
Matt

I think the LOVELLs I have looked for were from Northants originally - they seem to have been going South.  The LOVELLs were Knights etc in Northant - certainly fallen on hard times in Bedfordshire!

I had a quick look in UK National Archives [Documents on line] and could see nothing relevant in Wollaston but you may like to check again...

Another avenue to research is looking in rootsweb.com [family at top of page] and narrow your search to Wollaston - there are people researching WRIGHT there but later than you  Sad

It may be worth asking people in the various Northants list if they can help?


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Bedfordshire: Worker [Flitton]; Ames [Kempston]; Manton [Kempston]; Morris [?]; Valentine [Kempston]; Two & Osborn [Cranfield]

Herfordshire and West London: Brown [Kent in early 19th C]; Blackwell.
McCarthy [Clonakilty, County Cork - searching for needles in the haystack!] and LOSTY [Dublin]
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Re: Melchbourne - LOVELL/WRIGHT
« Reply #22 on: Saturday 01 December 07 16:53 GMT (UK) »
Hi Catherine

Knights eh? How exciting! Unfortunately both sides of my family lived particularly unglamorous lives - either working the land or making shoes. I search in vain for that elusive Royal connection!

Thanks for the Rootsweb tip.  I've found someone on there who is certainly researching the same branch of the family so have dropped them a line to see if anything comes up. You never know!

Once again, may thanks for your help.

Best wishes

Matt
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