Ruth Bailey married Thomas WIT 22nd Jan 1781 in Gonalston. They had 1 son called John baptised 4 Nov 1781 in Gedling. Thomas WHITT was buried 2 Jan 1784 in Gedling, his abode listed as Stoke.
Ruth then married Henry Wright ( A widower- his wife was buried 12 July 1785) on 2nd Jan 1786 in Hoveringham. They had 8 children.
Henry Wright and Ruth were my 4x great grandparents.
Just to add confusion...and I will not be upset to be proven wrong on this, as I much prefer the facts. I have Ruth Bailey baptised 9 Sept 1757 in Lowdham, the 2nd daughter and 3rd child of William Bailey and Mary Padley, who married 22nd Oct 1751 in Holme Pierrepont. This William could have been a widower as there is a burial in Lowdham 1747 for an Elizabeth wife of William. Marriage Lowdham 28 Dec 1736 William Bayley and Elizabeth Caley.
There was another child born at Lowdham to William and Ruth.
Baptised 24 Sept 1753 Sindonia . She was buried in Lowdham 25 Jun 1755
Thank you very much for this,
I didn't know that Ruth Bailey and Thomas Whitt, had a son. I didn't know also the date of when Thomas Whitt died either.
I didn't know about the marriage between William Bayley and Elizabeth Caley in 1736, so thanks very much for this also.
Regarding a marriage between William Bayley, and Mary Padley at Holme Pierrepont in 1751:
On Freereg, William's abode has been put down as: "St Mary's, Nottingham", on the date of the marriage. He has been transcribed as: "William Baillie". St Mary's (I think) was a parish in the city of Nottingham.
On Freereg for the marriage between Mary Lee, and William Bailey - transcribed this time "Bayley": William's abode at the time of marriage has been put down as: "Cathorp". This is most probably Caythorpe, which is quite near Lowdham. Mary Lee's abode has been put down as: "Bullcoat". This is probably most likely to be Bulcote, which is also quite near Lowdham.
Therefore on the balance of probability, I believe that the marriage between Mary Lee, and William Bailey to be the correct one for parents of our ancestor Ruth, baptised 1757 in Lowdham.
Family trees can sometimes be wrong of course. But I got my information through scouring the internet, looking at this tree, and then trying to check a few things out from it:
http://www.onerudyard.plus.com/genealogy/people/p0000004.htm#I1216I am trying to think of reasons as to why Mary Lee, and William Bailey would have been married by Licence. Off the top of my head, could it have been possibly because of Mary's age?
Or could it also have been because William may have been a Widdower? If so, I think it may have been possible that William had previously married at Lowdham in 1736.
Thank you very much.
