Help with Joseph Mosely birth lookup abt 1741

[davidlstern]

Would greatly appreciate help finding any records of the birth of Joseph Mosely abt 1741 in Norfolk. He married Elizabeth Walker in St. Stephens Norwich on September 16, 1764, and we suspect he is the Joseph Mosely who died there in 1817 aged 76. We also suspect he was the son of either Laurence Mosely born March 1720 in Norwich or his brother Joseph born April 1713 - but can find no birth records for Joseph in or around 1741 not any records for Laurence before his death in either 1755 or 1761 in Norwich. Birth records or wills from this family would be enormously helpful!

[Yorkslass]

Hi,

I’m pretty sure you must be right with your Joseph’s burial in 1817
There is an entry in the Norfolk Chronicle for the death of Elizabeth Mosely in 1819
saying she was the widow of the “late Joseph Mosely, many years constable of the parish of  St Stephens"

Also found this baptism at Norwich, St Michael at Plea in 1741 which looks promising - even though the name looks as though it's spelled Morsley -

 http://www.rootschat.com/links/01e5t/

Yorkslass

[Yorkslass]

This looks like the marriage - Joseph Moseley, spelled with the old fashioned "s", who married Mary Tilney at St Stephens, Norwich, on the 21 May 1738 -

 http://www.rootschat.com/links/01e5u/

Yorkslass

[davidlstern]

THANK YOU SO MUCH!!! That absolutely matches everything else we had - Mary dies in 1750 and Joseph remarries, and then we can trace the line down from there and back up through Joseph's father to a Laurence Moslie in the mid 17th century! Thanks again!

[Yorkslass]

You're welcome.

You've probably already seen this from the Norfolk Records Office -  a probate inventory for a Lawrence Mosely of Norwich.   

http://nrocat.norfolk.gov.uk/DServe/dserve.exe?dsqServer=NCC3CL01&dsqIni=dserve.ini&dsqApp=Archive&dsqCmd=Show.tcl&dsqDb=Catalog&dsqPos=2&dsqSearch=%28%28text%29%3D%27mosely%27%29

Yorkslass

[davidlstern]

I have not seen that, and that is likely Joseph's great grandfather, born circa 1625 (married in 1647). I will order a copy of the record. BTW, who are you and how did you find all of this so quickly?!?