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Quote from: Aussie Roy on Thursday 29 December 16 06:51 GMT (UK)

Was she illiterate?  The marriage cert does not say 'the mark of' In fact the whole certificate appears to be all one hand.

The parish register entry of the marriage is on Ancestry both Thomas & Jane signed the register and it is not in the same hand. Is the copy you have from the GRO as that would just be the copy sent from the church to them and not a photocopy of the original

Yes I got the GRO copy long before the marriage banns came on line, Looking at her signature on the banns it doesn't look much like corri

Hi, Google search.....In England: Any one of these possibly had a brickyard

    Whittington, Derbyshire
    Whittington, Gloucestershire
    Whittington, Lancashire
    Great Whittington, Northumberland
    Whittington, Shropshire
    Whittington, Staffordshire
    Whittington, Worcestershire

In Australia:

    Whittington, Victoria

In United States:

    Whittington, Illinois

1841
Oct-Nov-Dec
Registration district:    St Saviour Southwark
London Vol:    4
Page:    359
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From the new GRO index
CORY, JOSEPH       AGE 52 
December qtr 1841 in SAINT SAVIOUR UNION
Vol 04  Page 359
 
Burial at St Saviour gives address as Southwark Bridge Road
[/quote]        Thanks Rosie. it might be worth looking at the certificate. Also 1841 census.....Name:    Joseph Corey
Age:    45
Estimated birth year:    abt 1796
Civil Parish:    St Saviour
Hundred:    Southwark
Surrey, England
Street address: Southwark Bridge Rd
Occupation: VINEGAR M   (sic) Maker or Merchant
Not born in county
   

Piece:    1088
Book:    5
Folio:    30
Page Number:    15
Joseph Corey    45
Susannah Corey    50
This looks promising but Jane would be about 4 yrs old and listed with parents.  No Jane here

Also Name:    Joseph Cory
Age:    21
Birth Date:    1807
Marriage Date:    25 Jan 1828
Marriage Place:    Saint George Southwark, Surry, England
Spouse:    Susannah Hobbs
FHL Film Number:    413276

She also says her father was deceased by her marriage in 1858, but unless he died before registrations in 1837, there are no Joseph Corri deaths between 1837 and 1858. It's always possible that she was illegitimate and made up his name for respectability.

   Not definite but the area is right if the family moved from Wales........Name:    Joseph Cory, death
1841
Oct-Nov-Dec
Registration district:    St Saviour Southwark
London Vol:    4
Page:    359

this is confusing - there is a tree online which gives Jane's p.o.b. as Cornwall and her birth as c.1801 - also it seems she had children with Thomas Clay before they married -thomas Clay in 1833 and Martha Mersell Clay in 1838 then the marriage date as 1858
?
Martha Clay was a witness at the 1858 marriage -could this be the daughter witnessing her parents marriage
1851
13 East St Bermondsey
Thomas Clay head M 32 Porter Bucks
Jane wife 50 La?? Cornwall
Thomas son 18 Bermondsey
Martha daughter 14 Bermondsey
HO107 1572 553 1

or have the families been muddled???

Suz

I have not seen that tree which is either incorrect or another Clay family.  There is nothing wrong in my tree   http://roy1939.tribalpages.com/tribe/browse?userid=roy1939&view=0&pid=3413&randi=390513564...... all straightforward and documented.   Jane Corri is the only problem.