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Mable Bagshawe,

Rats! Just when I was starting to feel more comfortable about things. Nevertheless, many thanks for this intriguing further line of enquiry. I have ordered the 1868 marriage certificate that will (hopefully) resolve a question or two. Bear with ... 

Many thanks to osprey, amondg, & Mabel Bagshawe for their replies. The possible death of George CORNWELL in India is especially helpful as it offers an explanation as to how & why Harriet remarried there. It starts to look increasingly likely that Harriet's (supposed) second marriage reported in Cambridge Q4 1868 was a complete red herring although the 1911 Census for Harston did appear to support the fact. Still some fettling to do but I'm now feeling a lot more comfortable about things. Thanks again to all who responded.     

Can somebody please help me with the reported marriages of Harriet Anne HOY(E) born Q3 1841 in Little Newton, Cambs.

The daughter of Edward HINKINS-HOYE a farm labourer (born Elmdon c1791) & Ann (THARBY), she was baptised on 10 Oct 1841 and left home sometime before 1861 when she is found living with her married sister Emma SPENCER & her husband in George Street, New Town, Cambridge. She was married from that address on 1 Apr 1862 to George CORNWELL in Cambridge Register Office. That much seems secure but I’ve been unable to establish what subsequently happened to George.

A second marriage to George Edward JONES was registered in Cambridge Q4 1868 and in 1911 they are found living together at Fair View, High Street, Harston, Cambs. He was a retired railway engineer (ex-Indian Civil Service) which may explain their apparent absence from any UK records between those dates.

However, the plot thickens. For another marriage reportedly took place in Ferozepore, Bengal, India, on 14 November 1878 when recorded as 'Annie CORNWELL d of Edward INKINS-HOYE' she wed James Walter ANTHONY then serving with the 1st Batallion, Suffolk Regiment, (Source: LDS). They returned to England sometime prior to 1891 when found living at 1 Saxham Road, Bury St Edmunds. James remarried Q3 1895 so Harriet had presumably died by then although, once again, I’m unable to establish exactly when & where. So many loose ends.

I would be most grateful for any confirmation of the 1868 and 1878 marriages cited above. If you are able to help in some way – many thanks.

Many thanks to all who responded to my request. This was exactly the information I was looking for and while there appears to be some heavy lifting to do on what I thought was my (usually) reliable Cambridgeshire CORNWELL database I now feel more hopeful of a resolution to my question.

Carole W must have 'the oud toad's bone' somewhere about her for, it best horse-whisperer fashion, I suspect that she may have put her finger right on it. But please bear with ...

Thanks again to emeltom, Christine53, and Carole W. Much obliged.

Holmes CORNWELL Jr was somewhat lax in getting his offspring 'churched' promptly & seems to have favoured having them done together. The imminent introduction of Civil Registration in 1837 prompted him to have four of his children christened on the same day - joined by ten CORNWELL cousins. A grand family feast in Lode that day one imagines!

As far as I am currently aware, his son Robert CORNWELL was one of the first in the family to have embraced non-conformity being proposed to the Particular Baptist Church in Lode on 16 Oct 1836 & received into the church on 13 Nov 1836. Holmes & his wife, Mary (COOK), also became non-conformist at some stage & as you know they are buried together behind Lode Baptist Chapel. 'He was a praying man ... a man of faith. He believed in compelling his children ... to go to the house of God, and in never sitting down to a meal without first asking God's blessing upon it. He was always of a saving and persevering disposition, taking care of things of the smallest value; after he was dead we found his wedding gloves, which had been preserved 66 years, and other things for which he had had no use for many years'.

As for the death of Ruth/Emma AYRES, you're welcome. Glad to have been of some help.