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Many thanks, but I have found nothing around that time.  One school of thought is that a typical male marrying age was 25 at this time, so putting a birth as around 1752, but nothing then either.

Two 'possibles' have clearly been followed rapidly by deaths of the same.

Of course, he may have been much older than his wife.  After a seven year apprenticeship, he had to be at least 21 and considerably more if he was an established cordwainer.

I think that he must have travelled the relatively long distance from Kingsbury to Cerne Abbas for raw materials; there were tanneries there and most probably a market for Cordovan leather from Spain.

Maybe Martha was the innkeeper's daughter.....

Many thanks for any ideas

Bruce42


PS Wiiliam Row(e) was/is a very common name further west in Cornwall especially but I have conscientiously avoided straying from Somerset; proof of an attachment to any one would be impossible.

It could be Rood.

Probably of little interest re C19th - but in 1940s and 1950s, the Ivory family were farmers with a number of lorries/horse boxes.  Two of the Ivory brothers went to Hardenwick school in Harpenden and I drew in a boxing contest with one of them!
(Hardenwick moved to St Albans before closing)

Bruce42

Martha was Baptised in Cerne Abbas but William Row is a complete mystery re-Baptism.  The only candidates appear to have died in infancy.

I think that she was a Cerne Abbas landlord's daughter (?) and she had to marry in haste (hence the licence)!

He is likely to have travelled to and through Yeovil but less likely for her to have done so.

Many thanks
 
Bruce42