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« on: Tuesday 05 August 08 16:11 BST (UK) »
Hi everyone and thanks for all the help.
I have to say that this branch of my tree, I've only started working on since Friday so I am awaiting certificates for the more recent events but just thought I'd try my luck and push on a bit further with a bit of educated guesswork initially until things were confirmed.
The 1841 census (HO 107/601/6 page 15) started me off as Caroline Petty is listed aged 2 with Mary aged 5, Mary aged 25 and Charles aged 25. This is in Hinckley Leicestershire and she later went on to marry John Petty at least 25 years her senior. The marriage only lasted 3 years before he popped his clogs and she went on to marry Thomas Smith. I do wonder if Charles Petty and Mary married in Hinckley or in Atherstone. Perhaps that is why there is a problem finding a marriage. I'll ask on the Leicestershire board as they have been very helpful too.
Anyway on the 1851 census she is living in Atherstone with her father Charles (widower) aged 35, and what I assumed (maybe wrongly) her grandparents (Thomas and Ann Petty) as Charles is listed as "son" (HO107/2064/271 pg 32).
I suppose that Ann may not be Charles mother and that his father remarried at some point.
I think the trail continues .......
Anna