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Can anyone help with a possible movement of a couple, please. They are Robert Johnson & wife Mary.

I have been looking for the couple that lived in Lavendon. I could find no marriage for them there, but however I have found one in Hedgerley. It does seem quite a distance, so I am probably barking up the wrong tree.

I have the following information:-

Robert Johnson & Mary Dean both of Chalfont St. Peter, married 27 Jan 1722/23 at St Mary the Virgin, Hedgerley, Bucks.

Robert & Mary had a son William who was baptised on 10 July 1726 in Great Marlow. However, if they then moved to Lavendon, they might have had William re-baptised 18 Dec 1726 at Lavendon. All their other children were baptised in Lavendon.

Quote from: Sandy Hall on Tuesday 18 April 17 20:11 BST (UK)

There is also another baptism for a Sarah Cook to James and Sarah in Great Houghton
on 6th October 1754.

Possible the same child.

Sandy

I found Sarah (bapt. 9 February 1752), so unless she was baptised twice, she is a second daughter named Sarah!

Just been looking through the Northampton Hospital Admissions 1774 - 1846 that had been put up earlier. I did notice a Sarah Cook admitted 22 March 1803, aged 52 from Gt. Houghton. This would make her born in 1751.

Not what you are after at the moment but noticed this marriage at Brafield on the Green.


Brafield on the Green  By License
8-May 1774
James COOKE of Great Houghton to Mary MOARE   otp

One of the witnesses is a Willm Cook.

Sandy

Could be James Cook (bapt. 14 May 1749), making him about 25. Perhaps I have got a William missing from between the dates I mentioned.

I found two other Cooks, who could have been their relatives:-
William Cook who married Elizabeth ? , and had 2 girls Mary (1764) & Jane (1767).
Mark Cook who had an illegitimate child with Elizabeth Tew (widow). He was named Mark Cook (1748)

There is also another baptism for a Sarah Cook to James and Sarah in Great Houghton
on 6th October 1754.

Possible the same child.

Sandy

I found Sarah (bapt. 9 February 1752), so unless she was baptised twice, she is a second daughter named Sarah!

Quote from: martinsbox on Tuesday 18 April 17 18:19 BST (UK)

James Cook just didnīt show at Gt. Houghton for the years between the birth of his son John and the death of his daughter Sarah.

... and the Gt Houghton militia list (Wymersley) for 1762 has not survived.

James would have probably been too old for the militia in 1762, as he would have been 48 years old.