Help with the family name: Bennett

[PabloC]

Evening,

A big thanks to all those who've gone to the trouble of helping me out! This really has helped me out loads!!

A quick question though.....

I know they are both Irish but a Joseph Bennett married a Johannah Bedley in Swansea in Q1 1886.

Ref: Vol 11a, page 816

How did you manage to find this out?!! I've been puzzling over how to determine spouse's maiden names via the BMD. I've had some limited success due to in-laws residing with their offspring.

How were you able to find the matching entry for the female partner? Am I missing something relatively straightforward here? Let's put it down to inexperience eh? Ha ha.

Thanks again for the help!!

Paul

[Mike Thw]

Paul,

On Ancestry free BMD:

I punched in "Joseph Bennett", "Swansea, Glamorgan" - an educated guess; and a few years plus/minus before their first child - another educated guess

Went through the results and the was a Joseph Bennett on the same page as a Johanna Bedley.

I am not saying this is the correct marriage. That's for you to decide. But it's a good pointer, I think.

[Emsworthy]

Just out of interest, there is this 'Begly' family in 1881

Llangyfelach? St, Swansea Town

Michael Begly, Head, 30, General Labourer, Ireland Waterford
Johannah Begly, Wife, 33, Ireland Cork
Johannah Begly, Daughter, 12, Nurse, Ireland Cork
Mary Begly, Daughter, 10, Scholar, Ireland Cork
Ellen Begly, Daughter, 6, Scholar, Ireland Cork
Patrick Begly, Son, 8, Scholar, Ireland Cork
Michael Begly, Son, 13mths, Glamorgan Swansea

RG11/5360 F 87 P 16

Just a thought....

Regards, Emma

[bernard_lewis]

Llangyfelach is a street/road name.

Bernard