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A big thank you to all the people that have put time into this. Interesting that there appear to be 2 dates for the marriage - if anyone can come up with conclusive evidence that would be fantastic.
Just a bit of family background for this family. Harriet's mother was  called Louisa Emily and her father was Frederic Henry. He was a master mariner for the East India Company. He died in 1848, leaving 5 children including Harriet. By 1851, only 2 children were with their mother - Daughter Louisa was in teh London Orphan Asylum in Hackney; Harriet was in the Merchant Seaman orphanage in Bromley; Mary was in an orphanage in Wanstead, Essex. Frederick and Martha were with their mother.
By 1861, Louisa had remarried and was now Louisa Cavanagh and of the 5 children, only Martha was still living with her, along with a daughter by the second marriage - ELizabeth, aged 8. Of the other 4, I can only find Frederick on the 1861 census - I can find no trace of Louisa, Mary or Harriet, although they all reappear by the 1871 census. A sad story with the children being so seperated in 1851.

Bless you for doing that Ladyhawk - I do in fact have all of that now as my initial posting here was in 2009 and I have found out quite alot more about the Trenemans. I am still stuck on George though as his birth details list him as a "base child" to Elizabeth Trenneman but on his marriage certificate he named his father as William Treneman. SO either I have his birth incorrect [although census results clearly show he was born in St Germans at the correct time for the information I have to be correct] OR he falsified the name of his father on his marriage registration. I have reason to believe that his mother Elizabeth's father was called WIlliam, so am wondering if he named his grandfather as opposed to his father.
Thank you so much for spending time on gathering the information that you did 

Try typing qualified genealogist into google. Several things come up but there is some very good advice from the Institute of Heraldic and Genealogical Studies - worth a read.

Regards
Lisa

Thank you so much ELizabeth - I have to admit that I am completely stumped over this one. If I could find a marriage for Henry Phillips and Marie Gibbs /Huxtable it would help as then I could get the marriage certificate to varify her father's name - but cant find that anywhere either, Anyone got a brick wall I can borrow to bang my head against?

Lisa x