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Hi Laurie
Many thanks for your message - it turns out that ROWE is my correct line and the Frederick & Harriet that I was chasing was a false alarm. However, you are quite correct that Fred & Harr are actually BOWEN .
Once your info had convinced me of my error, I was able to actually retrench and find the correct ROWE line - so many thanks for putting me right!

Best wishes
David in Canada

Hi Newbie

Many thanks for your efforts so far and for confirming no Susannah in Frilford.

I assume that she had moved to Harwell by the time she married and was thus "otp" by then. But she claimed Frilford as her birthplace. The only longshot I can think of now is that her family might have been living in Frilford but attending/using a church in an adjacent parish that was actually closer than Frilford or Marcham church e.g. Garford, Tubney or Fyfield?

Best Wishes

David

Hi Newbie

Many thanks for your reply. Whaenever you can do the look-up is fine. I would like any copy trhat you can get and will reinmburse of course. I still have a UK bank a/c for that sort of thing.
Details:

Susannah BALDWIN married my ggg g-father  William BLISSETT  20 Nov 1809 in Harwell, Berks.I don't have the actual marriage cert. which might have helped shed more light given the difficulty in finding Susanna's birth/baptism. Maybe if you could see that original marriage entry it might help. It would at least say if Susannah was a spinster.

Susannah was widowed certainly before 1851 and possibly before 1841.

In all of the subsequent census entries, she gives her birthplace as Frilford, Berks and her year of birth as 1790 or 1791.

She died in 1873 in Wantage Reg. Dis.

I previously ( very hurriedly) tried the Frilford registers on a brief visit to the BRO about 15 years ago - no luck. I have subsequently wondered if, in fact, she was baptised in an adjacent parish such as Marcham. Then I wondered if she married as a widow  (even though only 18 or 19 at this marriage) and had a different birth name?!! Unlikely!

I also wondered if Susannah would have had another rendition - but I would have spotted Susan.....

Any help in solving the mystery gratefully received. I have had my share of ancestors trying to obscure births "out of wedlock" and maybe this is just another one??

Best wishes

David

Searching for two marriages in Oxford:

Samuel Harris and Mary ? in 1810
William Harris and Elizabeth ? in 1780, 1781 or 1782

Both marriages, I believe, took place in Oxford possibly in Magdelene, Brasenose or Queen's College

Any help in tracing these will be much appreciated

David Moore
Kingston Ontario Canada

Looking for the marriage of Frederick P. Rowe to Harriett ? in Yeovil in 1824 to 1826.
Any help much appreciated
David Moore
Kingston, Ontario, Canada