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Independent Islands => Alderney, Guernsey, Jersey, Sark => Topic started by: enzfan on Sunday 17 December 17 19:26 GMT (UK)
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Hello
I am looking for a marriage between William GODFREY (born Devon) and Mary Peck FOORD (born Hampshire). Unable to find a marriage record in England
First child - William Thomas Foord GODFREY born in Jersey 1844, baptised St Helier.
Thanks
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This is odd because of the name combination - there is this marriage but not to a William Godfrey
Margaret Peck Foord
Age: 26 born 1816
Marriage Date: 4 Jul 1842
St Helier, Jersey
Father: William Foord
Spouse: George Stockman
Spouses father John Stockman
Her place of birth was Southsea Hampshire and his was Exmouth Devon.
The actual image is on Ancestry
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Hello
Very interesting!
Can you check for a subsequent marriage to William Godfrey please. She is with him in London in 1851
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Her age also weird - actually born about 1809. Father correct and she is with her parents in 1841
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There is this later marriage
Mary Peck Godfrey
[Mary Peck Foord]
Marriage Date: 23 Oct 1861
St John, Hoxton, Hackney, England
Father: William Foord
Spouse: John Burge
She is a widow and he is a widower. Image also on Ancestry
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So it looks as if she married 3 times?
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I can't find what should be a Stockman/Godfrey marriage between 1842 and 1861.
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Yes it looks like 3 times. Was George Stockman a Tailor?
If he was then he is in the 1841 census living in St Helier and then pops up married to a Margaret in Portsea, Hampshire in 1851
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Is there a subsequent marriage of George Stockman to a Margaret please?
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Yes, he was a tailor.
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I can't see one, and divorce wasn't that common then. I wonder if they just went their separate ways and Mary took William Godfrey's name without marrying him?
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Here's the daughter's birth, so the marriage didn't last long.
Births Dec 1846
Godfrey Sarah Ann Mirtle Foord
Alverstoke 7 19
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Yes I think you might be right about them going their own separate ways. George must have liked older women - his next partner is 6 years older.
Many thanks for your help ;)