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Offline LUV

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Staffordshire Marriages pre-1837
« on: Friday 31 October 14 18:00 GMT (UK) »
Hi All
So, I am looking for a Marriage circa 1830 in a parish in Leek Staffordshire

Benjamin Thompson to Harriet (?)

The couple baptized the eldest 4 of there children in Leek before heading to Derby where they are found on the 1841 census onward

Anybody out there who can steer me here  :-\

Thanks for the hand

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WOODAGE (East London);
SPEAR (Laneast, Cornwall);
FRENCH (Rye/Hastings, Sussex);
PERCIVAL (Downe, Kent);
JARVIS (Houghton, Norfolk);
KING (Wortham,Suffolk- Hove, Sussex);
FLEMING(Logierait & Dowally, Perthshire);
LOVE (Ireland Co.?)

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Re: Staffordshire Marriages pre-1837
« Reply #1 on: Friday 31 October 14 18:07 GMT (UK) »
Marriage 5th December 1826 Leek St Edward Staffordshire

Benjamin Thompson, bachelor, Parish of Leek, weaver
Harriet Bentley,spinster

Married by license with consent of Mark Bentley and James? Thompson

Witnesses:Joseph Goldstraw, Frances Hilliard?

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Re: Staffordshire Marriages pre-1837
« Reply #2 on: Friday 31 October 14 18:13 GMT (UK) »
Thanks so much

Looks like them  :)

Wonderful as 'consent' by their parents/guardian maybe helps explain the spread in her children... ie she was young when she married as she is having her last child in 1851

Thank again
WOODAGE (East London);
SPEAR (Laneast, Cornwall);
FRENCH (Rye/Hastings, Sussex);
PERCIVAL (Downe, Kent);
JARVIS (Houghton, Norfolk);
KING (Wortham,Suffolk- Hove, Sussex);
FLEMING(Logierait & Dowally, Perthshire);
LOVE (Ireland Co.?)