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An..try has an image of the marriage of William DYKE and Louisa WALKER on 14 Apr 1873
it also has military papers fir Thomas DYKE showing that he declares he married Louisa WALKER on 14 Apr 1873
So I am sure Thomas and William are one and the same pwesin but there us little to say when or why he uses William!!

wish I could see her marriage to see what her father was
she married  Q1 1901
ASHFORD    George        Birmingham 6d 216
Dyke    Florence

her children were  Florence May, Louisa Agnes, Albert Augustus, amd Henry Thomas

Helping a cousin with his tree we have got to Florence May DYKE born Q4 1879 Birmingham.
1881 census she is 1 yr old living at 7Ct 9 House Tower St Birmingham with parents Thos and Louisa DYKE. Thos was born1853 Alvechurch Worcester
1891 census she is 11with parents William and Louisa DYKE.William  was born1853 Birmingham
William Dyke    Age:   21 Married 14 Apr 1873 in Birmingham, St Bartholomew, Louisa Walker
1851 , 1861, 1901 and 1911 He is Thomas

I am mystified was he Thomas or William are there two families or one?

5x gt grandmother, Mary BALSON  born about 1738 married Nathaniel ADAMS in Frithlestock 6 April 1750
They had 7 children the first 4 in Frithelstock 1761-1773 the last three in Alwington1774-1778
Mary died in Alwington in 1801her age in the burial register was 68

But that is all we have found about her,
Can anyone help me find Mary before marriage?

Many thanks
Trees

Both lived in the Woodstock RD

Only 3 deaths for that name in that RD

1878 aged 81 - 1797
1903 aged 59 - 1844
1906 aged 82 - 1824

The most relevant death
1878 aged 81 - 1797
 was for one buried in Kidlington the register reads:
1878 Jan 4   GILES   Martin   81   Woodstock Union   WB

I have taken this as the one on the 1871 census in Kidlington
"Martin GILES 74 an Ag Lab from Kidlington was with his wife Rosa 71."

So although the widow of the other one, Magaret, was still in North Aston in 1861 and 1871 and she was buried there in 1874, her Martin does not appear in the parish burial register. He was a coal merchant in 1851 and in the trade directonary in 1852 and as pointed ot a boatman in 1856
So where did he die between 1856 and 1861, Margaret was a widow with her daughter and son in lawin 1861.
The stretch of the Oxford Canal between Banbury and Tackley forms the eastern boundary of North Aston parish. So if he was transporting coal by boat it may be worth considering places along the Oxford canal does the whole area fall into the Woodstock registration district?
The Daughter was born in Upper Heyford another plac on the canal!