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One of my direct Ancestor lines links to a family from Petersfield.
Researching these boarder locations seems quite difficult because families and individuals keep jumping across the county boarder.

Thomas Bacon and wife Mary
with children
George      b. 1799
Mary         b. 1802
William      b. 1803
Lydia         b. 1804
Ann Maria   b. 1807   (direct ancester)
James        b.  1807

I have a record of the christenings.

I am keen to research two things as follows :-
1. The 1851 census has a Thomas Bacon born Petersfield 1797 so most probably he is an older child. Hence trying to track down his christening.

2. Also keen to track down the marriage of Thomas Bacon and Mary.
The Sussex marriage index has no likely candidates hence probably married in Hampshire

One of my direct ancestors traces back through the Hotston's (various spellings) in Binsted.

But there is another large HOTSTON family quite close by in Ford.  I would like to try and find Thomas's parents or at least where he came from (I do have a spare Thomas of the correct age christened 1797 in Stoughton).

Thomas Hotston b. about 1798
Jane b. about 1802 

A possible m. is 23/20/1823 in Portsea to Jane Viney (interestingly there are Viney's living close by in Climping who could be related to Jane)

To complicate things there are two christenings listed in Ford for George with parents Thomas and Jane with dates 03/03/1825 and 24/07/1825 hence amazingly there could be two Thomas and Jane families in Ford.

Also there is a christening listed for a Thomas to Thomas and Jane dated June 1824,  with birth date listed as March 1822,  hence birth would be earlier than possible marriage.

Just noticed the availability of the Sussex Criminals & Victims 1800 to 1825 of CD.

Are there any forum users who frequent these forums who have taken a look at the CD contents,  and if so was it of any help to there researches ??.

It claims to have 30,000 persons mentioned but only covers 25 years.

Was it possible for a girl to Wed in 1756 at age 14 ??


I have at the top of one of my lines Thomas Snow who married Mary Terrell in Cowfold 14 Jun 1756.

These two also appear in the poor laws database as a married couple dated 26 Oct 1756.

Checking for Mary using the IGI with parish Cowfold,  note that there are various similar spellings for her surname.   There is a big list of christenings to children of a Joseph and Mary (possible parents of Mary above) as follows

John  1730
Joseph 1732
Mary 1737
Richard 1741
Mary 1742
John 1743
Sarah 1748
John 1749
Sarah 1752

A first glance look at this list seems to be a single family,  some names being re-used as children succumb.  If so then Mary was christened in 1742,  probably born shortly before - hence married at 14.

My database contains a family :-

Richard Bibey b. ~1822 Walford
he married
Caroline Edward - formally Watkin b.~1821 Lydbrook/St Briavels

The BMD shows that here marriage registration was Ross Mar 1849

They most likely married in Walford.

Could some one if possible try and lookup this marriage.

I am particularly interested in the Brides father.   I seem to have it recorded in my database as Samuel but not too sure where I found this,  it may be a mistake.