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Re: Parish Records - Elizabeth Norris of Newbury
« Reply #9 on: Wednesday 18 October 17 22:48 BST (UK) »
Chris,
Thank you so much for all of that information.  Greatly appreciated.
jan
New, Thorn, Bird, Ruffey, Bosley, Belcher- Newbury Berkshire
Haynes/Haines - Much Birch Herefordshire, Monmouth Wales
Kearn/Watkins- Llanllwchaiarn/Newtown, Wales, Tyberton, Herefordshire
Gwilliam - Monmouth Wales, Herefordshire
Collier, Jackson - Salford, Manchester Lancashire
Saunders - Middlesex, Devon
Benson - Edinburgh, Scotland
Callander - Falkirk, Scotland
Ambrose - Liverpool, Manchester Lancashire, Canada
Timms, Elliman - Oxfordshire, Warwickshire
Ellison - Manchester/Portsmouth Hampshir

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Re: Parish Records - Elizabeth Norris of Newbury
« Reply #10 on: Thursday 19 October 17 00:09 BST (UK) »
That's interesting Newbury Chap.    Yes, we have quite some information on Ralph, thank you for your previous information in his regard.

jan

Well there you are Newbury Chap, I never knew that.   There were several Shoemakers in the family, and as well, the Grandson, Thomas Thorn became the well known Stonemason in Newbury, who constructed several of our family's graves.

You asked when the first child was born, yes, Edmund George Thorn was born 23.8.1811 (one month after their marriage !) and yes also Edmund was quite young too for marriage, all of 19 year.  All of their children were baptised in the Baptist Church.   13 children all told, including the last birth producing twins.
jan

I doubt they were baptised in the Baptist Church, certainly not as children - they only do adult baptism.  I suspect they had some sort of membership thingy for children that might look like baptismm.

The Thorn I am most familiar is Ralph - Newbury publican and WWI casualty - hits two of my pet projects. He was a son of Thomas the stonemason.

And someone wondered why Baptists would marry in the parish church - simple, it was the only place you could marry. They could go back and have a ceremony in their own church, but only CofE and (I think) Jewish synagogue marriages had any force in law between 1754 and 1837 (Hardwick's Marriage Act).
New, Thorn, Bird, Ruffey, Bosley, Belcher- Newbury Berkshire
Haynes/Haines - Much Birch Herefordshire, Monmouth Wales
Kearn/Watkins- Llanllwchaiarn/Newtown, Wales, Tyberton, Herefordshire
Gwilliam - Monmouth Wales, Herefordshire
Collier, Jackson - Salford, Manchester Lancashire
Saunders - Middlesex, Devon
Benson - Edinburgh, Scotland
Callander - Falkirk, Scotland
Ambrose - Liverpool, Manchester Lancashire, Canada
Timms, Elliman - Oxfordshire, Warwickshire
Ellison - Manchester/Portsmouth Hampshir