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Richard Radcliffe 1726-1793 of Cockermouth, merchant. Bankrupted 1784; Cumberland Pacquet of 7 Jan 1794  (p3 col a) reports his death "lately, in London, aged 67" - any info on date and place of death please?

RR's mother was Mary Kelsicke bap Whitehaven, Cumberland 1 Sep 1703: her death, please?

RR's wife Maria Dorothea Nowell 1733-1777, bap Brampton Cumberland 20 Sep 1733, bur Cockermouth 13 Nov 1777. Actual dates of birth and death please?

Their daughter Elizabeth Radcliffe 1765-? marr Francis Mascall 1762-1848 of Eppleton, Durham; one child (Francis Mascall born Eppleton 14 Oct 1789, d 1857). She died before 1848 - not mentioned in husband's will - but we can't find where: could have been Eppleton, Durham, or Red Lion Square, Holborn?

Colin - I'm a bit slow today....

Mary Coxhead (de Combe) is surely Sarah Hayward (Waldron)'s cousin.

Sarah Vivash = a) William Glyde
dau Ann Glyde = Edward Coxhead
dau Mary Coxhead = Abraham de Combe of Geneva/London

Sarah Vivash/Glyde = b) William Hayward
dau Sarah Hayward = Richard Waldron
dau Sarah Hayward Waldron = Geo Wells of Bedford

Works for you?
Mike

Colin - I should have been Googling! First result on "William Hayward Marlborough" (Sarah HW's presumed father) is

https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/1f231d58-bb58-411b-9881-c7d44ec98294

Looks as if it holds clues to who Mary Coxhead really was, and why SHW's husband moved to Marlborough to be a baker. Must look at it properly later.

Mike

Thanks Colin.

An Ancestry tree (without sources, grrr) has Abraham Jeremie Decombe 1798-1852 (parents and many generations of ancestors named, hmmmm...) marrying in London
a) 25.12.1824 Martha Neale 1800-1827
b) 24.12.1827 Mary Coxhead 1800-1843 (our 1837 marriage witness)
c) 26.11.1844 Sarah Morrell ?-?, with whom he at last had sons, hence the family tree I suppose.
Agrees with your latest finding so i expect it's credible.

As to why Mary de C signed: I see the scenario as follows.

Sarah HW was orphaned in Marlborough at 18, without siblings (that we can find) - though many cousins etc no doubt. Inherits whatever the bakery's worth, as only child.
Abraham Dymock, Lambourn neighbour and good friend of her father, becomes guardian, officially or informal.
SHW moves to London for work as housekeeper or companion - something a bit middle-class, as
a) she had inherited, though perhaps not much
b) she married a distinctly promising Bedford merchant, who I suspect wouldn't have married a servant.
By 1837 she's a good friend or in household of Mary de C, about 9 years older than SHW: who comes to the wedding because SHW has no close family in Marlborough and none at all in London, and signs register.

The Clerkenwell register does have a number of signatures x4 or even more, so perhaps it was the vicar's quirk to encourage extra people to sign, particularly for an orphan.

Does that work for you?

There are a couple of feasible Mary Coxheads born 1801 (none 1800 that I noticed) who are not ruled out by being elsewhere in 1841 or alive after 1843, but it's probably not something that needs pursuing.

Mike

Colin,
re John Waldron (= Sarah Henley at Lambourn 27.04.1770), father of Richard Waldron 1773-1831 of Lambourn, father of the Marlborough baker:

There are suitable JWs in Ogbourne St George (very close by) at the right period, but I prefer these,
both of Lambourn:
JW, son of Joseph Waldron and Mary, bap 21.10.1741
JW, son of Cheyney Waldron and Elizabeth, bap 11.12.1748.

If you find anything to indicate which, please let me know. Agewise for a 1770 marriage, perhaps the former? We seem to be over-blessed with Waldrons!

Mike