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I think it is certain now which Clara married Charles and has allowed me to go a lot further with this family line.

Thanks to everyone for their help.

Nigel

Charles Smith was born ~1847 (1847 Q2 Depwade 13 46), baptised in Tharston, Norfolk on 25 Nov 1847 and was single and living with his parents in Tharston at the time of the 1871 Census (RG10 1836 161 17), a blacksmith aged 23.

Charles married Alice Maria Rushmore on 19 Oct 1880 in Tharston.

The 1881 Census (RG11 1969 57 16) had Charles (blacksmith) living in Tharston with wife Alice Maria and daughter Ellen J (born 1873).

An Ellen Jane Smith was baptised on 27 May 1877 in Tharston and gave a birth date as 11 Sept 1872, with parents Charles (blacksmith) and Clara.

A Clara Smith died in 1879, buried in Tharston St. Mary's Church on 11 July 1879, memorial in the churchyard 'IN MEMORY OF CLARA BELOVED WIFE OF CHARLES SMITH WHO DIED JULY 7TH 1879 AGED 34 YEARS WHEN WE ASUNDER PART .....', so Clara was born ~1845 and possibly at some point between 1871 and 1879 had married Charles.

Hopefully someone can help me to find the Clara mentioned above. I have searched for a marriage between Charles and Clara in the appropriate period but can get nowhere. Also tried to find any Clara, local to Tharston, who would fit the description.

Thanks in anticipation.

Nigel

I have just looked at all the parish records we have from the relevant period and can find no possible connection between your James an any of our Harveys.

As you know I am trying to create a 'family tree' of Tharston and, when I've completed the current family under research, the Bensleys, I'll have a look at the Harveys and let you know if I find anything interesting.

Just a quick thought - there are several villages around here with very similar names, are you sure it is Tharston as there are Starston, Thuston, Stuston to name but three, and I have often found people have confused these both in transcriptions and on original documents.

I hope you have a good trip when you visit us and, should the Tharston contact be fruitful, we would be pleased to meet you in our village.

Regards.  Nigel

Thanks to you all for the research you must have undertaken on this topic.

I will now go through the whole piece of my research again and see if this will get me any further. I am inclined to think that Sinfield could well be Silfield and, if this is the case, then more will probably become clear.  I've been researching families in and round this area for many years and have never seen any other reference to Sinfield - I thought I knew most of the places around there and have never seen it anywhere else. My only reservation is that there are 4 references to Sinfield - can they all be wrong?

Having looked at the Methodist Norwich Circuit shown by the earlier link, there is no mention of Silfield and, as many places around there are mentioned, perhaps I would have expected it to be there. However, in My Primitive Methodists the Silfield Primitive Methodist Chapel has an opening date of 1867.

The plot could well thicken further .....

Thanks, everyone, again.

Thanks for looking, perhaps she was missed.