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The Common Room / Re: Marriage Bond & Marriage
« on: Wednesday 30 November 16 19:42 GMT (UK) »
I've spent a few years looking for the birth/baptism of Abigail Fawcett circa 1718. and have had no luck finding an Abigail Fawcett born at any time in Westmorland or Yorkshire.
The co-signer of the marriage bond was George Dixon, a writing master in Kendal, so presumably he read the bond before he signed it, and would have noticed if Abigail's surname was incorrect? (He was Thomas Birkett's cousin.)
I was just in the record office in Kendal, and found the actual marriage to Thomas Birkett, and was surprised, to say the least, that Abigail's surname was Thexton! I then started researching Thextons, Theakstones, etc.
(The Abigail Thexton who married Richard Woof was a widow, who'd previously been married to Richard Thexton, a shoemaker in Firbank. They had 2 children, Thomas and Margaret, born 1718 and 1720, baptised in 1738 (Quaker). Richard Thexton died in 1738 and Abigail then married Richard Woof in 1740.)
The co-signer of the marriage bond was George Dixon, a writing master in Kendal, so presumably he read the bond before he signed it, and would have noticed if Abigail's surname was incorrect? (He was Thomas Birkett's cousin.)
I was just in the record office in Kendal, and found the actual marriage to Thomas Birkett, and was surprised, to say the least, that Abigail's surname was Thexton! I then started researching Thextons, Theakstones, etc.
(The Abigail Thexton who married Richard Woof was a widow, who'd previously been married to Richard Thexton, a shoemaker in Firbank. They had 2 children, Thomas and Margaret, born 1718 and 1720, baptised in 1738 (Quaker). Richard Thexton died in 1738 and Abigail then married Richard Woof in 1740.)