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In an earlier thread

http://www.rootschat.com/links/01j12/

I was doubtful that Martha DAWSON (nee Buckingham) (1791-1854) was the mother of a 1 year old George in the 1841 Census.  I based this on an assumption that the list of the children living with her and her husband William DAWSON (1790-1848) at Wootton were her own issue, while of course the Census makes no such claim.  And I can't find a birth for George DAWSON in Woodstock in 1839-40 anywhere.

I wonder if anyone has information on the baptisms of the children of William and Martha in the period  1811 (they married in 1814) to 1840-most likely at Tackley.  My new theory is that at least one of the children living with them in the 1841 Census were not theirs by birth.  My direct ancestor James was baptised in 1818, and the 1841 Census also gives us Mary (c 1826), William (c 1826), Elizabeth (c 1829), John (c 1831), Henry (c 1836) and George (c 1840).

So if 1 Jan-24 March was part of the year BEFORE, wouldn't that make the marriage in 1766?

Thanks people, I think that makes sense.  Sounds painful, and treatable if diagnosed soon enough these days.

http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/

Unfortunately they don't seen to have the Chronicle for that period.

Thanks ScobieDrom.  The local record offices are a bit of a trip from Australia, unfortunately.

Would the local newspaper most likely to report such an event be the Barnsley Chronicle?