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The 1773 marriage was by licence. Peter Sandiford was a witness. When you say he consented to the marriage (because Elizabeth was a minor) do you mean you have a copy of the marriage licence which states he was the one who gave his consent to the marriage taking place? If so the licence should also give his relationship to the bride and her age. By tradition a marriage took place in the bride's parish but parish residency was only a  three week requirement.


There is a baptism of a daughter of Peter Sandiford at Christchurch Southwark all in February 1757. His wife maybe called Sarah - the register is damaged and just the first two letters of her name appear. The child appears to be called ?arriot (probably Harriot), Rara?, Frances, Harland Jack?
Peter Sandiford is described as a gent - gentleman.

Burial
2nd January 1830 St Peter Walworth Southwark
Elizabeth Lloyd Russell aged 78, St Leonard Shoreditch

Hello Valda,

Thank you for the very detailed and very helpful response.

Elizabeth Lloyd Russell bur 2 Jan 1830 St Peter Walworth Surrey is indeed the lady I am researching.

I have posted the marriage image here

www.werelate.org/images/4/4d/John_Russell_Marriage1773.jpg

Actually it does not say Peter Sandiford gave consent I assumed he gave consent as he was the only family witness, the other witness was the clerk. It does say Elizabeth Lloyd Sandiford was a minor.

The bapt. of children of Peter and Sarah Sandiford in 1757 is very interesting as one daughter appears to be Harriot and John & Elizabeth Lloyd (Sandiford) Russell named their first daughter Harriot Elizabeth Russell.

Google searches are now turning up a Peter Sandiford who was connected to the Court of Chancery in this time period. Presumably this occupation would qualify for the identification "gentleman."

Thank you again.

Susan

Parish registers of St. John, Hackney confirm that this Thomas Bell was indeed the Well Street coal merchant.

Susan

Thank you Stan,

This is helpful information.

Susan

Hi,

A few days ago I found a google digitized book, Visitation of Somerset, which contains a large number of pedigrees.  I am not familiar with these books, are the pedigrees reliable?

I found that my ancestor, Mrs. Maude (Mauncell) Jubbes, d. 1535,  is listed in one of these pedigrees. I have been able to trace back to this lady by use of a number of wills, some of which I have transcribed and posted on my personal website, and the records available on A2A.

Could some one give me a brief background on visitation books?

Thank you,
Susan

Thank you Falkyrn and downside,

I think I understand now that autorun is not difficult to create, but creating a file for autorun to open is another matter.  It looks like I have 2 choices -- to have a programmer write an EXE file for me  OR  make a webpage and have the autorun inf open the webpage, which is something I can do.

It looks like this autorun feature only works with a windows operating system.  Is there anything similar for a Mac? 

Thank you both for your help.

Susan