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Is it just me  - but I am finding that Ancestry links through to FindaGrave are oftentimes coming up with entries that do not relate to photographed headstones?

Seems to me some folk are at best harvesting Family History Society transcripts or at worst projecting their own, possibly flawed research.

In the spirit of the  apparent wishes of the FAG website I have over the years contributed photos and data, but on several occasions when I have contacted authors for clarification or challenge an entry I have often been convinced they don't actually know anything about the entry I am talking about. Some have refused to change their entry when I have produced documentary evidence  challenging what they have put.

Such a pity that such a useful website appears now to have lowered the bar in regard to the source of submissions.

Rant over.

Ssxy.

Royal Monmouthshire Militia : being a detailed description of the regiment from the year 1660 to the time of its transfer to the Special Reserve by B E Sargeaunt 1910.

Published on University of Calgary website in its digital collections:

http://contentdm.ucalgary.ca/digital/collection/cmh/id/42299

Ssxy.

FamilySearch has marriage of Elizabeth and John 10 September 1849 with image from Cheshire Parish Registers, but there are 2 further entries - "intended marriage" one 4 August 1849 and the second for an earlier marriage 14 February 1847; neither has an accompanying image.

I would be grateful if someone with access to these records could confirm that the earlier record exists, and is not a typo.

Perhaps someone got cold feet, then changed their mind a couple of years later!

Thank you, Ssxy.

Some years ago at ESRO Lewes in East Sussex I viewed the original OPR entry of the marriage of my 4th great grandparents William Eldridge and Ann Walter at Brede, Sussex 20 Sep 1788. It clearly showed that Ann was a widow.

I have just found a tree on IGI that has appended the baptism of an Ann Walter. If that information is correct, it suggests that the OPR entry is showing Ann's maiden name rather than the surname of her late husband.

Is it possible that the 1788 OPR entry shows Ann's maiden name rather than her previous married name?

Confusingly an Australian death certificate of daughter Ann Maria (Whiteman) gives Ann's surname as Pearce. Needless to say I have yet to find any evidence of any earlier marriage.

Ssxy.

NB There are to this day some trees on the internet that have cut and pasted from my now defunct FTM site that call her Ann Widow Walter or Ann Walter Widow!

Poll for County of Sussex taken at Chichester, March 1820.

Link takes you to the Google Books scan of original book.

http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=dLMHAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA1&dq=the+poll+for+knights+of+the+shire+Sussex&hl=en&ei=uVzeTrD5PMrc8AOeleX8BA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=4&ved=0CEEQ6AEwAw#v=onepage&q&f=false

Nice to have a copy of the page with your rellie on it. Mine were too poor to feature! 

Ssxy.