A marriage between Mitty GREEN and member JOHNSON family in Colchester c. 1785

[Keith Sherwood]

Hi, Everyone,
I've recently come across a Mrs Mitty JOHNSON in a family Bible, with her death recorded in 1839 in the flyleaf.  As "Mitty" seems to be such a rare forename, and I have come across a baptism for a Mitty GREEN in 1762 in Colchester at St Mary The Virgin at the Wall, I am trying to put 2 and 2 together by imagining a marriage sometime around or after 1785 or so for a woman of this name and a groom with the JOHNSON surname.
It is a JOHNSON family Bible, and they all lived in Colchester for some time.
Does anyone have access to marriage records for this town at this time...?
Very best wishes,
keith

[Frances]

Hi Keith,

I have found this one, what do you think?

Mitty Ellis married John Johnson by licence 6 March 1827 All Saints Colchester
Witnesses George B Ward/Mary Ellen & Sarah Ellis.

Kind Regards,

Frances

[Dave Francis]

Aha! That makes sense ...

William WILLES m. Metty GREEN [sic]
25 Aug 1784 at St Mary The Virgin at the Walls, Colchester

[Source: IGI]

[Frances]

There is this one also.

Verlander Jacob married an A Mitty Ward 24 September 1818 St Giles Colchester

Frances

Brides in both marriages down as spinsters, does the 'A' in the  posting above mean another first name?

[Keith Sherwood]

Hi, Frances and Dave (Francis),
This is getting almost as complicated as distinguishing between the various MITTY/MITTEY/WILLES/ELLIS conundrum in Colchester.  They even managed to mistranscribe MITTEY as MILLEY as a forename on freeBMD...
Anyway, another great piece of detective work, very well done!
Looks like the Mitty GREEN (bapt 1762) married a William WILLES, (or ELLIS) in 1784; then a daughter of theirs called Mitty ELLIS married a John JOHNSON in 1827.  That looks to fit the bill very nicely...
Very many thanks,
keith