Cambridgeshire baptism 1817

[emeltom]

Unfortunately I can't find anything except the birth/death refs which can be found on the GRO site or FreeBMD

Emeltom

[MacGrigor]

No problem. Thanks for all your help!

[emeltom]

Not sure if this is your John Hinson or not as dates don't quite fit.
 There is a marriage in Shoreditch, London 24 November 1806 between a John Hinson and a Catharine Game.
Cambridge FHS have a baptism for a Catherine Game 16 January 1779 in Cambridge St Giles, parents Robert and Mary.

Might be worth looking into.

Emeltom

[MacGrigor]

Yes, that's where I got the name Catherine Game from! I did investigate this wedding months ago. It does like fairly likely, it must be said.

[MacGrigor]

But yes, the dates would make one child illegitimate.

[rosie99]

Maybe that is why they married in London and not Cambridgeshire, perhaps their neighbours thought they were already married 

[MacGrigor]

Yes, that's certainly possible. I have two sets of ancestors who had an illegitimate child, married, and there was a gap in age between the legitimate and illegitimate children. In this case, there was a gap of around 2 years between the birth of their first child, Marian, and their second, Elizabeth.

[MacGrigor]

Catherine's parents married at St. Giles in 1775. Mother Mary Harman.

Here is her christening:

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:NNYP-896

Another case of the same-sex couple, this time a Thomas and Matthew Harman. Perhaps mistranscribed from Thomas Matthew Harman, the father? I'm not sure.

Adam