COMPLETED Mary DRYDEN - Missing marriage or wrong bride?

[Jomot]

Trying to find the marriage of my GGGG Grandparents, Andrew Knox & Mary Dryden (Driden) abt 1810, presumably in Newcastle.  If you can trace their parents too then even better!

Andrew & Mary's first born is Mary Ann Knox born 26/11/1811 christened 22/03/1812 at Newcastle upon Tyne, High Bridge Meeting House.  Parents stated as Andrew Knox, native of parish of Goswick of Holy Island and Mary Driden native of (Newcastle?) parish of All Saints.

Other children of Andrew & Mary are (dates are baptisms):

Richard Knox: 14/08/1814
Elizabeth Knox: 12/05/1816
William Knox: 15/06/1818
David Knox: 27/09/1820
Dinah Knox: 09/05/1822
Andrew Knox 28/06/1826
John Dryden Knox: 05/06/1829

All good so far except the only marriage I can trace is 15/11/1810 between Andrew Knox and JANE Dryden at Saint John, Newcastle Upon Tyne.

As the names Mary & Jane aren't remotely alike I have to assume its a different couple, but as all other searches have drawn a blank any help you experts out there can give would be greatly appreciated!

[stanmapstone]

The High Bridge Meeting House would be non-conformist, probably Presbyterian. From 25th March 1754 until the introduction of Civil Registration from 1st July 1837, a legally valid marriage had to be in a C of E church, except for Quakers and Jews. So the marriage in Saint John's could be right.

Stan

[stanmapstone]

HIGH BRIDGE MEETING-HOUSE (Scotch Presbyterians) http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=43362#s10

Stan

[Gadget]

HIGH BRIDGE MEETING-HOUSE (Scotch Presbyterians) http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=43362#s10

Stan

I found that a while ago and looked for a marriage in Scotland but nothing showing there. So, it's either the St John one or not recorded/surviving or what the Scots call an 'irregular' marriage.


Gadget

[stanmapstone]

As the names Mary & Jane aren't remotely alike I have to assume its a different couple, but as all other searches have drawn a blank any help you experts out there can give would be greatly appreciated!

"Mary Jane" is a very common combination of christian names.

Stan

[Gadget]

Is this the family in 1841, living St John:

HO107/848/12/13/19
Close, St John, N/T
Mary Knox, 48, Ind
David, 21, bottle maker
Andrew, 15, do
John, 12

all b. County

Gadget

[stanmapstone]

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[Gadget]

In 1851

HO107/2406/418/35
Forth Banks, St Nicholas
Mary Knox, wid, 59, Innkeeper
David, 31, bottle maker
John, 21, do
Rebecca Baty, grdd, 14, barmaid
Andrew David Baty, grds, 9
All b. Newcastle

Searching Ancestry births 1850 +/- 10 for exactly Mary Jane gives 100,064 results.

Stan

Restrict it to Tyneside, Stan!

Gadget

[Gadget]

Here's a bpt:

https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/N5TC-MZ6


Father John Dryden, Mother mary


Gadget