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Where did Mary Ann get to in 1861, I assume she married either John Briton or James Brown?

yokel

Mary Ann maried John Britteon to whom she had 8 children.

Florence Gertude Swan married Peter Walker in 1881.  They are my GGparents. One of the witnesses was Florence's half sister Elizabeth Rose Britteon.

HI

I can't find him on the 1861/71 census within birth years 1858-1863.  Do you have his fathers name and occupation from his marriage certificate

From the marriage certificate dated 31 may 1882, Peter's father was John Walker - a sailor.  There is no mention of his place of birth.  Peter was aged 23 at the time of his marriage, so he was probably born in 1858 / 1859.

I've found a Peter age 3 in the 1861 census as a boarder in a private house in West Derby, Liverpool-- his father may have been at sea, and his mother may have died whilst Peter was an infant. 

Eliza was my GGGM on my mother's maternal side.  She died in Cambridge in about 1909.

She had a daughter Matilda who was born illegitimately in 1874 -- she was my GGM who I remember fondly.  She lived and died in Kirtling - about 6 miles from Newmarket.

Eliza married Jabez Stubbings in 1879 - they had no children - he died in 1887.  She then married William Pledger late in 1888, and they had 2 children.  William died in 1892.  She then married William Howe - a widower- in late 1893, and they had one daughter.  William died in 1813.  One of William's children to his first wife Elizabeth Pledger was called Charley.  He married Matilda and was my GGF whom I vaguely remember as a very small child.

I have not been able to prove a link between William and Elizabeth Pledger, but in a small village like Kirtling there was bound to be a family connection going back no more than a couple of generations.

I do hope I've not confused the heck out of you -- it took me some time to work out all the links - but I'm happy to report there are no first cousin marriages on that side of the family. 

Not so much proud as very pleasantly surprised -- it was a branch of the family I knew little of, and I happened on the info whilst seeking clues into my GGM's family.