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England (Counties as in 1851-1901) => England => Cornwall => Topic started by: Brentor boy on Sunday 29 January 17 13:50 GMT (UK)

Title: Looking for Leah Cowling ( x 2 )
Post by: Brentor boy on Sunday 29 January 17 13:50 GMT (UK)

I have extracted the following from the Cornwall OPC site and census records. The location for all events shown as St Agnes.

Leah Cowling baptised 1 Jan 1762.
Leah Cowling/John Letcher married 1803. 7 children born 1807-1821.
Leah Letcher buried 22 Aug 1867, aged 88

Leah Letcher's age as shown on census returns:-  1841 (55- rounded?),  1851 (71), 1861 (78).

I can find no record of the marriage or burial of Leah (1762), nor the baptism or previous marriage of Leah (1780/4). What am I missing?

Title: Re: Looking for Leah Cowling ( x 2 )
Post by: Mabel Bagshawe on Sunday 29 January 17 14:36 GMT (UK)

from Freereg (didn't come up under surname variations)

St Agnes the Virgin
Baptism date    16 Feb 1783
Forename    Leah

Father forename    William
Father surname    COWLYN
Mother forename    Mary

Title: Re: Looking for Leah Cowling ( x 2 )
Post by: Brentor boy on Sunday 29 January 17 14:45 GMT (UK)

Thanks, Mabel. That's solved one! (I had trusted that something like that would have been thrown up by surname variations)

Title: Re: Looking for Leah Cowling ( x 2 )
Post by: osprey on Sunday 29 January 17 19:31 GMT (UK)

you can use the wildcard option on the opc search as well. So searching for cowl% will find both versions and in case there's a variant of Leah, you can put just 'l' or 'le' in the first name box.

 ;)

Title: Re: Looking for Leah Cowling ( x 2 )
Post by: Brentor boy on Monday 30 January 17 08:53 GMT (UK)

Thanks, Osprey. I had been mixing (*) as a wild card and getting nowhere. Now I know why!