Mary Thompson/William Richardson

[bevmatth]

Help!

This couple have been driving me nuts for a while now!    My great grandmother Mary Richardson was born 7Th May 1887 in Hulme, Manchester with parents on birth certificate as Mary Richardson (formally Thompson) and William Richardson. They also had 5 other children.

I have tried numerous ways of trying to find their marriage in the civil registers with no joy at all! The only evidence I can find is on FindMyPast and that is a transcribed only church record from Prestwich, St Mary in 1882 of a William Richardson and Mary Thompson. It has no original image so cant verify the information and it also doesn't give fathers details for either the bride or groom.


I really want to find the civil record for them so I can order the marriage certificate to find out the fathers details so any help/advice anyone can give to find it would be very much appreciated.


Thank you so much.

Bev

[PaulineJ]

I'm wondering if it's banns rather than a marriage.

https://www.familysearch.org/wiki/en/Prestwich_St_Mary,_Lancashire_Genealogy#Online_Records

Lan-opc seems to have transcribed that year, (not there) and lancashirebmd doesn't have it either.

Pauline

[mazi]

The images for Prestwich st Mary can be viewed. On Familysearch, here is the page, no Mary Thompsonhttps://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:S3HT-65SS-2Z?i=56&wc=M6FD-1MS%3A143838901%2C158886501%2C159259501&cc=1788853

Mike

Posting the link again

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:S3HT-65SS-2Z?i=56&wc=M6FD-1MS%3A143838901%2C158886501%2C159259501&cc=1788853

[bevmatth]

Thanks for that. I had looked at these image but like you found no Mary Thompson. They really have me stumped! 

[mazi]

Freebmd has a marriage June quarter 1880 in Chorley, Mary Thompson with a William Richardson on the same page, Williams entry is in italics which has some significance but I don’t know what

Mike

[heywood]

Freebmd has a marriage June quarter 1880 in Chorley, Mary Thompson with a William Richardson on the same page, Williams entry is in italics which has some significance but I don’t know what

Mike

John Grimshaw married Mary Thompson in Chorley - Lancashire BMD

[mazi]

Freebmd has a marriage June quarter 1880 in Chorley, Mary Thompson with a William Richardson on the same page, Williams entry is in italics which has some significance but I don’t know what

Mike

That William married Emily Nicholson in Blackpool so that rules him out

Mike

[heywood]

This looks good. Do you have it?

1871 3999/145/9
117 York Street Hulme

Elizabeth Thompson   46 yrs
Hannah Thompson 11yrs
Eliza Thompson   8 yrs
William Richardson lodger 19yrs Gardener b Liverpool

[heywood]

There are Chorlton births for Mary, Hannah and Eliza Thompson with mmn Buckley - could be the family perhaps?