Matilda Meech b 1824 Cerne Abbas

[dhhound]

I'm trying to trace the later life of this person. She was baptised 9 Dec 1824 Cerne Abbas, f William Meech, m Harriett Antel, s Harriett Sarah. She married Mar 1850 Dorchester. Potential husbands from BMD were John Curme, William Dunning, Isaac Old or William Thorne.
No Matilda with any of those surnames shows up in either the 1851 or 1861 census, nor do any children show up in the Cerne Baptismal Records after 1850.
Any kind person who might suggest how I might proceed from here. My grateful thanks in advance.

[yonderpeasant]

there is a widowed Isaac Old in Cerne Abbas in 1851.
HO107/1858/735/60
mistrn as Ald

[dhhound]

Thanks for the reply, I hadn't seen that. It would make him 11 years older than her, not an impossible gap. Unfortunately the Cerne deaths for 1850 are missing. No Matilda Old or Ald shows up in BMD for 1850/51, though there is a Mary Old death Mar 1850 and a Sarah Old death Jun 1850 for Dorchester.  Its possible she was Matilda Mary, Sarah is unlikely as its the the second name of her sister.

[mapacaja]

Hi, Just read your query re the above.  Interestingly I have just received a copy of a marriage certificate of Isaac old who married my Sarah PEACH, ON THE 25th July, 1853, at Cerne Abbas, the certificate shows Isaac OLD as a widower, Labourer, father is shown as James OLD, Labourer, I am in the process of trying to find out who his first wife was.   If this fits in with your Matilda Meech, please let me know, kind regards, Maurice H...

[dhhound]

I can't be sure that Isaac was her husband, he turns up as one of four possibilities in the BMD records. No marriage records for 1850 in Cerne Abbas are on the Dorset OPC site, and no Meech or Old deaths of a grown female are listed either. There is a Mary Old age 1 listed as a burial for 1851.

My recollection is that I checked the marriages of the other three possible husbands and they exist in the later censuses, leaving Isaac as the likely husband.  But no evidence exists that I can find.

[mapacaja]

Hi, thanks for your prompt reply and comments, appreciated, kind regards, Maurice H..

[santapola]

Hi,  am connected to Meech family of this area,  my info from familysearch shows that Matida married Henry Dunning 18/2/1850 at Cerne Abbas and there is a burial of Matilda Dunning at that place 8/4/1850

regards