Marriage look-up

[Jane Masri]

Hoping this marriage is in Wiltshire as the would-be bride & groom are last seen in Castle Combe in 1851.

William BRELEY to Hannah WALLOP both born about 1838 so estimate marriage to be about 1858, as they are married & living in Brighton by 1861.

Jane

[janan]

Have you got them in 41 Jane?
Jan

[alcrighton]

Hi Jane,

Have found the following:

Marriages, September Quarter 1860

WALLOP, Hannah, Chippenham 5a 69

No William BRELEY in the index for the same quarter however.  Will try variants (I see he is BREYLEY in the 1861 census) and will let you know what I find.

Regards,

Allan

[alcrighton]

Bingo!

Marriages, September Quarter 1860

BREYLEY, William, Chippenham 5a 69

Regards,

Allan

[Jane Masri]

Ahhh, WELL DONE Allan, brownie points for you
Is that from FreeBMD?  I checked that & familysearch several times but with no luck!
Anyway, you've gone part way in solving a mystery, see my thread in the common room,  http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,109696.0.html

As I can't find hide 'nor hair of them in 1871, perhaps they did sail for New Zealand.
Again, many thanks,

Jane

[alcrighton]

Hi Jane,

The marriage is not on FreeBMD yet so I found it the old fashioned way by trawling through the indexes quarter by quarter!  I've had a look at the other thread and the fascinating story of the sampler, I guess it's a case of looking for  the BRELEYs/BREYLEYs in the passenger lists for emigrants to New Zealand.  Anyone know of any good sites for New Zealand passenger lists?  The ones I've seen require you to look ship by ship.

Regards,

Allan

[Jane Masri]

Jan - sorry I failed to answer your question.  No I don't have the family in 1841 - do you ?

Allan - Thanks, you must have used your 1837online credits for that, bless you!  I have found sites for NZ immigrants, but as you say, mostly it's ship by ship.  They might have gone via Oz and all I can fathom, is to look any time from 8 April 1861 (census night) to 2 April 1871   There again, Hannah might have given the sampler to a sister (she had two) who went to NZ.  Probably the easiest thing to do is to find someone to track the Breley couple once in NZ
Anyway, keep watching the thread,

Jane

[alcrighton]

Jane,

Don't worry, no credits were spent in tracking dwon the marriage!  1837online is not the only place where you can see the indexes to Births, Marriages & Deaths!

Regards,

Allan

[Jane Masri]

   True Allan!

Jane