Hello
I am reluctant to ask ,because I had a look up three weeks ago and understand if the answer is no.
If I could have a look up of the Intention to Marry of Lewis Hook and Eliza Mexted ,who married on the 27th February 1861.I would be grateful.
Unless someone has any suggestions of where else to look for an elusive birth registration
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I have been trying to find his” eldest” daughter’s birth so that I can get a certificate and hopefully establish if he is ,in fact, named as her father. Thus giving me an approximate year of his arrival in NZ.
Sarah Jane Mexted Hook was born in 1858.This is consistent with her age at marriage and death.
When she married George Romeril in 1875 at St John’s Presbyterian, Wellington her name is Sarah Jane Mexted ,as it is on the BMD Index. Witnesses: Lewis and Eliza Hook
I’d get her death cert,but the information will more than likely be what everyone believes to be true, won’t it?
I cannot find her birth in the BMD Indexes or on Family Search –not under Hook or Mexted or variations of both.
There are Sarah Jane’s with mother Eliza but the surname isn’t right .
I’ve looked at every Mexted and Hook child born between 1857 and 1859….and every child with no name in the same date range.
There is another large Hook family in NZ but they are not related.
I bought a cert for an un-named child of an Eliza and George Mexted (her father), thinking they might have given her father’s name out of necessity.
But that child was Eliza’s youngest sister Harriett. Her mother was named Elizabeth or Eliza as well.
My next step would be to look at the fiche, but these and four CD’s are the sum of our genealogy resources at the moment and are stored at a branch library at the other end of town. They are only available on a Monday from 9.30am to 1pm.which is fairly hopeless.
Thankyou
Barbara
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),so I would appreciate some expert help.