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I am plodding through a microfilm of the OPR for  Corstorphine  at my local LDS FHS.

Andrew Arthur and Mary Barclay have several children in Corstorphine but also seem to have flitted between there and Gladsmuir and Athelstaneford.


Helen 12/1/1792 Gladsmuir
Isobel 1/9/1793 Corstorphine
Thomas 22/10/1795 Corstorphine
Marion 1797 Athelstaneford
Robert 28/7/1800 Corstorphine
Crawford 17/2/1804 Corstorphine

Familysearch has Andrew born abt 1770, Mary born abt 1772 and their marriage abt 1790, all in Gladsmuir. However, this information is in the form of Pedigree Resource Files and I cannot back this up with any IGI transcriptions. Scotlandspeople can confirm the birth of Helen  at Gladsmuir and describes Arthur as a Labourer in Narclaw? 

Can anyone confirm that Andrew and Mary really were born and married in Gladsmuir.

Thanks very much for that, Nell.

You may recall that you helped me with Jane Wyeth in the last day or so.
I am just over the border in Wiltshire so it is only about 1 1/2 hours to Winchester.

All in all, there is quite a Hampshire connection.

Robert Hughes 1 was born in Wexford in 1796, was a member of the Wexford Militia and the 12th Foot. He married Sarah Ware twice. Once in Cork in September 1837, in the Catholic church then again, a month later, in a Church of Ireland church in Rincurran. I suspect he was Catholic and her family was C of E so the dual marriages would have kept both families happy. They had a son, Robert Hughes 2 in 1838 before he left the 12th Foot and moved to Southampton, where he stayed for the rest of his life. Robert Hughes 2 married Emma Few, who presumably had been a bit of a naughty girl as she was in a home for Penitent Women in Southampton. Emma's mother was Jane Wyeth, who was married to James Few, who was a coachman living in Kensington but was born in Ely, Cambridge.

I was not aware of any of this two weeks ago so it has been a bit of a discovery.
Each Robert Hughes has named their eldest son Robert, making me Robert Hughes 6. Of course, I have twin daughters and Emily has threatened me with physical violence if I suggest she changes her name to Roberta!

I phoned Hampshire Records today and checked out what I needed for a Records Office pass. I have the Wiltshire one but Hampshire is part of CARN which I don't belong to yet.
I think I will pop down next week and check out what records I can get access to.
It is much easier to be sat there with the whole fiche or document and flick through the pages than keep asking one off questions.
Thanks for all the help.

Regards

Bob

This is an extract from the 1861 census for a Jane Wyeth who was born abt 1823. She was living in Kensington at the time with her husband and family. His name was James Few although this has variously been transcribed as Farr and Fan. The 1881 census is not much help as the enumerator put down Kensington for the whole of the family.

The place looks something like Bamstead to me but that is not a Hampshire place name as far as I am aware.

In the 1851 census her place of birth is given as Hants, Wootton.



Regards


Bob

That sounds great. Where are you getting the information from?

I am trying to trace the birth of Sarah Ware who has her place of birth as being Titchfield, between 1811 and 1813, depending on the census return. She married Robert Hughes in Cork in Ireland in 1837 and then returned to Hampshire to produce and raise a family. I have her in Southampton from the 1841 census, right through to being resident in what looks like Thomer's Charity Almshouses in 1891. I believe she died 27/12/1895 in Southampton, though I am waiting to get hold of a copy of the dc.

I have tried searches on Ancestry, using a variety of spellings, without result.

Bob