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jillruss
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Marriage of Amos Harris - ? Reading
« on: Friday 28 December 07 13:42 GMT (UK) »
I last tried to solve this one a year ago, but - alas  Embarrassed - I'm still banging my head against a brickwall with it!

There are a few of those dangerous submitted IGIs which have Amos Harris marrying Mary Johnson in Reading 24 June 1719. Some of the IGIs just say 'Reading' and a couple say 'Reading St Mary', but the marriage isn't included in either the Reading St Mary or Reading St Giles parish records transcribed into the IGI.

There's another problem in that I have them baptising 4 children in Reading St Mary before 1719 (1712-1717) so I'm a bit confused (situation normal!  Wink ).

As they're not included in the IGI, I wondered if anyone had Reading St Lawrence PRS and could check to see if the marriage took place there.

Otherwise, it looks as if the marriage could well have taken place - as was usual - in the bride's home parish, and that the IGI submitters have 'assumed' that the couple married where they had their children.  Roll Eyes

Can anyone please help throw any light on this for me?

Thanks,
Jill
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Major brickwalls:
John Frith mge to Fanny, Bucks? c 1798
Bathsheba Boothroyd bp W Yks c1802
John Bishop bp E Yks c1758
Joseph Symonds mg to Sarah, prob Berks c 1735-40
John Horwood mg to Martha, Berks c 1735-40
Sarah Sculler bp  Berks area c 1675
Paul Phillips bp  Berks/Bucks c 1720
William Newell bp Berks/Bucks/Oxon c 1765
Richard Troughton mg to Jane, Westmoreland c 1732
Mary Simon bp Shrops c.1795
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Re: Marriage of Amos Harris - ? Reading
« Reply #1 on: Friday 28 December 07 21:21 GMT (UK) »
You could also consider that Amos and Mary married at St Mary's, Reading as the patron entries say. It is quite possible that the extraction from the PRs omits the marriage. IGI extractions are pretty good but not perfect (something they have in common with virtually all transcriptions).

Mary is a very common forename - the baptisms pre 1719 could be to Amos and an earlier wife.
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Re: Marriage of Amos Harris - ? Reading
« Reply #2 on: Friday 28 December 07 23:15 GMT (UK) »
Yes - I've come across a few PR entries which have been missed off the IGI even though the parish is supposedly covered, so I'll have to follow that up.

It seems you're also right about a second marriage. Another contact has found a 1710 marriage of Amos Harris (of Reading St Mary) in Oxford, and I've found a burial in Reading St Mary in 1718 for Mary Harris, wife of Amos.

All I need now is to confirm the 24 June 1719 Reading St Mary marriage of Amos Harris and Mary Johnson  (so if anyone has Reading St Mary marriage PRs I'd really appreciate a look up) and I think I can knock this particular brick wall into the middle of next week (and next year!!)   Grin

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Jill
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Major brickwalls:
John Frith mge to Fanny, Bucks? c 1798
Bathsheba Boothroyd bp W Yks c1802
John Bishop bp E Yks c1758
Joseph Symonds mg to Sarah, prob Berks c 1735-40
John Horwood mg to Martha, Berks c 1735-40
Sarah Sculler bp  Berks area c 1675
Paul Phillips bp  Berks/Bucks c 1720
William Newell bp Berks/Bucks/Oxon c 1765
Richard Troughton mg to Jane, Westmoreland c 1732
Mary Simon bp Shrops c.1795
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