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Hi everyone

As Galium identifies, Ann Holt is named as a Bondsman along with Isaac Clampitt. Both would be jointly responsible for paying the £500 should he choose to skip town without going through with the marriage to Mary Parr or, if it later turned out he was not actually free to marry....... This obligation would also be transferred down to the heirs of named parties so it was a big obligation.

£500 was a lot of money in 1799 but, as Isaac was a sailor from Bovey Tracey, Devon who had arrived in Parkgate and 'fallen in love' - I am guessing that Mary Parr's family may have felt he was quite a flight risk - or that he may not have a whiter than white history!  As it happens, he stayed in Parkgate happily married for the rest of his life, raised a big family and died at the age of 90. Isaac and Mary are my 4xGGrandparents.

Snipo - great to learn we have a family connection and if you want to PM me then I would certainly be happy to share what information i have with you if it I have anthing that may help.

Viki

Thanks

I think I agree that the Lillie that marries in 1913 is probably not mine based on the evidence you suggest.

It would be good to be able to find at least one of them on the 1920 census but I am finding it difficult to locate any likely suspects in 1920.  Do you know if there are big gaps in the US census for 1920?  I know there are a few gaps in the English census' but have little knowledge about US records?
I feel like, either she marries before 1920 - in which case the person we have just eliminated above is the only really clear suspect, she dies, in which case I can't find any likely evidence of this, or she is there somewhere and I just can't find her!!!!
Oh well - guess I will keep looking.
Thanks again

Viki

Hi
Her surname is Nachomowitz, although sometimes the family name is written as Nachomovitz.  Later on it was reduced by a number of members to Nachman.

My Great Grandfather and one of his brothers however went by the name of Heller(!)  They were certainly all siblings however and the different names seems to not be too untypical of Jewish families who left Eastern Eupore at the time.

Thanks for looking Genealiza

Viki

Paslwigr

Thank you so much for looking this up for me.  This is certainly the right family and you have managed to find a few extra siblings for my GGgrandfather, John Richard Bennison, that I knew nothing about before as they sadly never got to figure on a census.

Most importantly however, you have managed to answer a riddle that I had not even realised was bothering me.  Your identification of the death of Jane, aged 51 in 1869, was a real shock.  I thought I had tracked Richard down living with his wife Jane for at least 20 years following this!  On going back to look closely at the records to make sense of what you found - I realised my error.
Jane clearly had died between the 1861 and 1871 census.  Trouble was that Richard had almost seamlessly married another Jane - and I simply had not realised. 
It now makes sense and is quite obvious when I look back.  The ages are different etc - only I never noticed it before - just assumed it was an error or a bit of vanity suddenly at work.....

Anyhow - many many thanks for helping me out before I went any further down a wrong track. 

Thanks a million to everyone who has helped with this query.
Viki