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Title: Witness Christian name on Marriage certificate help please COMPLETED
Post by: Reyz on Monday 06 January 14 13:40 GMT (UK)
Any ideas on what the Christian name is of the Lady on attached.
Wedding Witness  -  Surname looks like GARDNER.   Says X  Her Mark.

Wedding was 1824 in St Leonard's Shoreditch.  The other witness James B HILL is witness on several Marriages.

Thank you
Reyz
Title: Re: Witness Christian name on Marriage certificate help please
Post by: josey on Monday 06 January 14 13:43 GMT (UK)
Robina? If she made her mark her name would have been written by the clerk [so you can compare that person's writing for other names in the same register]. The first letter of this forename is the same as the minister in the same entry which looks like Robert Crosby curate. 

Josey
Title: Re: Witness Christian name on Marriage certificate help please
Post by: Reyz on Monday 06 January 14 14:01 GMT (UK)
Hi Josey

Why did I not notice that!
 :)
Thank you very much! 

I will see what I can find for a Robina Gardner.

regards
Reyz
Title: Re: Witness Christian name on Marriage certificate help please
Post by: josey on Monday 06 January 14 14:03 GMT (UK)
Gardner could of course be her married name; may be bride's sister? I'd look for baptisms of a Robina around 1800.

ADDED: There do seem to be quite a few on familysearch.org born in Middlesex 1795 - 1805. What were Mary Ann's parents' names?
Title: Re: Witness Christian name on Marriage certificate help please
Post by: lizdb on Monday 06 January 14 14:05 GMT (UK)
Looks like Rebecca to me.
Title: Re: Witness Christian name on Marriage certificate help please
Post by: Gadget on Monday 06 January 14 14:09 GMT (UK)
Quote from: lizdb on Monday 06 January 14 14:05 GMT (UK)
Looks like Rebecca to me.
I see it as Rebecca as well  :)
Title: Re: Witness Christian name on Marriage certificate help please
Post by: Treetotal on Monday 06 January 14 14:10 GMT (UK)
So did I before I saw anyone's response.
Carol
Title: Re: Witness Christian name on Marriage certificate help please
Post by: Reyz on Monday 06 January 14 14:11 GMT (UK)
Hello

I have just found a Marriage for a Robina Gardiner to a Alexander William Gray
in Shoreditch 1833.

I thought it looked like Rebecca before but had no luck tracing her.  So thought I would try on here.

so looks like the right person

Thank you all for your help / suggestions.
Reyz
Title: Re: Witness Christian name on Marriage certificate help please
Post by: lizdb on Monday 06 January 14 14:14 GMT (UK)
Quote from: Reyz on Monday 06 January 14 14:11 GMT (UK)
Hello

I have just found a Marriage for a Robina Gardiner to a Alexander William Gray
in Shoreditch 1833.


Do you mean 1933?  In view of the fact the marriage she was witnessing was 91 years after 1833 . .. . !
Title: Re: Witness Christian name on Marriage certificate help please
Post by: lizdb on Monday 06 January 14 14:17 GMT (UK)
Ahhh - have found it and it IS 1833, ( she again makes her mark rather than signing)  but the original Chamberlain/Hollins marriage (that she witnessed) was 1824, not 1924!
Title: Re: Witness Christian name on Marriage certificate help please
Post by: JenB on Monday 06 January 14 14:18 GMT (UK)
Just adding my opinion that the Christian name is Rebecca.
Title: Re: Witness Christian name on Marriage certificate help please Completed
Post by: Reyz on Monday 06 January 14 14:23 GMT (UK)
Thank you for pointing out the error in the year!!
Easily done!!!!

I am going with Robina as I have tried
Elizabeth Gardner before as I said and had no luck.

Thank you
everyone who looked
Reyz
Title: Re: Witness Christian name on Marriage certificate help please
Post by: Reyz on Monday 06 January 14 14:46 GMT (UK)
Just to update it was   ' Reubinia '   
and she was a Widow when she married in 1833.
Has really helped!
Thanks again !