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If someone goes into Bedford Library to look up my Milton Ernest request, could I ask that he also looks at Eaton Socon please? More Emerys, who may, or more likely may not, be connected to the Milton Ernest lot. Again, there are various member submissions on the IGI with no corresponding extracted entry. My views on member submissions are well known!

Baptisms
14 Oct 1604 John Emery son of John (are there any other children of John baptised at around this time?)
15 May 1685 Isaac Emery son of Richard & Cecilia

Marriages
21 July 1629 John Emery / Edith Day
13 May 1662 Richard Emery / Cecilia Moakes

Many thanks

David

Does anyone have access to the above please? I'm looking for a marriage at Winchester St Bartholomew allegedly on 10 May 1565 between John Emery and Alice Banet. Does this marriage exist or is it a figment of a number of LDS members' imaginations?

Many thanks in advance

David

Be gentle with me! I’ve never ventured north of the border before

I have three siblings
  - Susan Watson who married James Anderson in Old Machar, Aberdeenshire on 23 Aug 1794, and they produced 8 children in Inverurie, Aberdeenshire up to 1810. She died before 1834, probably by some years. If she was 45 on the birth of her last child it puts her birth as c1765, although she could have been younger.
- Harry/Henry Watson who married in Fintray, Aberdeenshire in 1797 and so far as I can find had no children. He died in 1822 at Fintray with no indication of age.
- George Watson bc1748 if his burial age of 87 in 1835 can be relied on. George Watson, a perfumer of New Bond St., London, in his 1834 will names
    - sister Susan Anderson dec’d of Inverurie, leaving bequests  
      of a £1000 apiece to all of her named children
    - brother Harry deceased, a farmer, and his widow Joan, of
      Fintray, Aberdeenshire, leaving Joan an annuity. No children
      are left bequests, implying to me that there weren’t any.
    - and asks to be buried next to his uncle James Paul Smyth at
      Ealing.

James Paul Smyth also a perfumer of New Bond St in partnership with his nephew George Watson, in his 1797 will names nephews George Watson of New Bond St,  Henry Watson, & niece Susannah Anderson. He also names a brother in Kent, so on the face of it he wasn't from Scotland.

I cannot find baptisms of George, Susan or Harry in Aberdeenshire. Nor can I find a marriage of a Watson to a Smyth (although there are other ways that James Paul Smyth could have been the uncle of the Watsons).

It’s a big step from a farming community in Scotland to a perfumer in New Bond St London, and George Watson and his children became seriously rich.

I’ve tried the IGI and Scotlands People for the Aberdeenshire family – do any of you Scottish experts have any other suggestions please?

Many thanks

David

Joseph Dickerson married Sarah Merry at Toft on 2 Oct 1809 per the BVRI. Unfortunately this in the middle of a 7 year gap for marriages at Toft on FreeReg.

If anyone has access to the transcript I'd be very grateful to know if Joseph was described as widower

Many thanks in advance

David