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One of my rellies named Mary Ellen Lewis b in April 1842 & bap 18 April in Guilsfield d/o James Lewis of Broniarth, innkeeper & Mary of Pentre Broniarth Upper who married in Guilsfield in 1836.  Mary Ellen was their first child but I have never been able to find her living with them.   From Family Trees on Ancestry I found her married & living in the US. 

According to the 1900 US Federal Census she immigrated to the US in 1848 & she would have only been 6 years old at the time. I've searched passenger lists etc & cannot find her emigrating at all.  At 6 years of age she wouldn't have gone alone would she & why??  It also said she'd lived in the US 52 years so therefore her given age of 58 would be correct.

On the 1920 US census it says she immigrated in 1860 & naturalized in 1890. Have searched but can't find trace of these either.

However she married on 4 December 1864 in Knox, Ohio to a man named Morton Hugh WILLITTS, had several children & the last one was named Edward Cureton Willitts & this really caught my eye as this Mary Ellen's grandmother was Mary Ann Cureton & she had a father & a brother both named Edward Cureton.  So I'm pretty sure this is the Mary Ellen I was searching for BUT can anyone shed light onto her emigrating in 1848 when she was 6???   Any suggestions please as this seems to be quite a conundrum.
Thanks to anyone who replies with any info.
Amberly.
 

Firstly please could someone explain to me why intent to marry papers were written up?  Also the 2 people concerned seemed to be only 16 at the time, could this have been the reason?   They did marry in fact on year later in 1781. Also is there somewhere were one can look these up to read?
Thank you to anyone who can help.
Amberly

Another brick wall!   I'm searching for my grandfather's brother Frank.  He had 6 brothers & I've found all the others but Frank is proving very difficult.    He was born on 18th Dec 1887 in Guilsfield, Montgomeryshire. I have a photo of him with his wife & on the back it says Mr & Mrs F Roberts, home on leave 6 June 1917 & he is in his uniform.  The photo was taken in New Brighton, nr Liverpool.  I've found him on the 1891 census & 1901 & 1911.  By 1911 he was boarding with the Williams family at 5 Manor Rd, Liscard, Cheshire, 24 & unmarried. The Williams family were no relation to us to my knowledge.
I've scrolled through MANY Frank Roberts for his marriage between 1911 & 1917 when the photo was taken but cannot find anywhere telling me who his father was.  He was in fact Charles Edward Roberts b 21 Dec 1851 but bap 1852 but cannot pin Frank down without finding his father mentioned to be sure I have the correct guy.
I also know he had children as his older brother who lived in Liverpool, Robert Whitley Roberts b 5 Mar 1880 & I knew of as Uncle Bob, left money in his will to them when he died in 1972 aged 92, but they were only called Frank's children, & no further info on them.
I have a feeling, don't know why, he could have married Harriett Reese in Birkenhead in 1916, & was a bus driver, or Nellie C Gough in Chester in 1914 & was a house painter & decorator.   
I really have nothing to go on apart from this photo.   I never heard my Grandfather mention him or his family.
Can anyone please tell me how to find his Father's name without sending for MANY marriage certs?
Thanks to anyone with ideas.
Amberly.

I'm really stuck trying to sort out where & when the above couple were married.  I can't find them on the 1841 census but on the 1851 Catherine is already widowed, she's 45 & says she was b in Pentrevoelas,  She has 3 children living with her, David aged 16 b Bersham [I found I believe his bap on 17 Mar 1833 in Bersham saying son of Robert Thomas & Catherine Jones] then Jane who is my 2 x gt grandmother aged 14 b Brymbo [her bap says 6 Mar 1836 Wrexham to Robert & Catherine Thomas] then Elizabeth aged 2 b Broughton & they were living in Broughton.   Since Catherine was already widowed in 1851 & Elizabeth was 2 he must have died sometime between 1849 & 1851 I guess??  I found a burial of a Robert Thomas aged 72 on 10 Dec 1849 in Brymbo which seems to fit the bill but he seems to have been much older than Catherine like 30 years??  This may well have been so but I can't find a birth for anyone in 1777 which seems to fit the bill.   She could have been his 2nd or 3rd wife I suppose??   I'm not sure where he was born either since I can never find him on a census.
Any suggestions please as to where to look now?
Thanks to anyone who could help.
Amberly.

John Timms m Mary Marceline Lalonde in St Boniface, Manitoba on 20 Nov 1915.

I would like to find out where John was born & who his parents were for me to be sure this is the John Timms I'm interested in.    Will this info be available on their marr cert by any chance??

He was born in Salford, Manchester UK in about 1888.

Can anyone help me with this please?

I've found out quite a bit about this family but still am unsure this is the John Timms I'm looking for.

Thanks to all who can help,
Amberly.