Ann Vickers, Nottingham

[suttontrust]

I have Ann Vickers born c.1795 in Nottingham.  She married John Wateridge in St Peter's in 1814, and Andrew Williamson in St Nicholas in 1823.  Can anyone help in tracing Ann's parentage, please?

[Dizzifish]

Hello,

The NFHS baptism index is not complete but there are 20 baptisms for girls called Ann Vickers, but two baptism’s around the right years that are coming up are:

ANN VICKERS = father William, mother Jane, 31st December 1795, Mansfield St Peter.
ANN VICKERS = father William, mother Mary, 2nd June 1796, Nottingham St Mary.

Regards

Sheila.

[suttontrust]

Thanks, Sheila.  I've just found the second one on the IGI, where it gives her father as Thomas.  Only one other baptism in the batch has Thomas and Mary as parents.  Do I take it the IGI is wrong?  There's a member submission giving a marriage of Thomas Vickers to Mary Green - I know I can't trust that! 

[Dizzifish]

Huge apologies it is Thomas!  , I am usually very careful to double check before posting.
The marriage is;
Thomas Vickers and Mary Green – 6th July 1795, Nottingham St Mary

Sheila.

[Dizzifish]

There is also this baptism for Thomas & Mary Vickers at Nottingham St Mary
THOMAS VICKERS, 28th November 1796.
   
The next baptisms for any parents named Thomas & Mary Vickers at Nottingham St Mary is 1817

Sheila.

[suttontrust]

Many thanks for double checking, Sheila.

[Jane Eden]

Hi Sheila

I am not sure how well you know Nottm. St Marys, St Peters and St Nics are all within a stones throw of each other in the city centre. It is likely that people would meet and inter marry from any of these parishes. They are all within half a mile of each other.

Mansfield St Peter I would have thought would be the other end of the earth being 15 miles away. Its odd but being Nottm bred and born I actually thought Mansfield was further away than that! It just show the thought processes.

Jane

[Dizzifish]

Hi Jane,

I know Mansfield much better than Nottingham, I only mentioned the Mansfield Ann Vickers baptism because the dates were close to the one suttontrust was looking for and just in case any other Nottinghamshire Ann Vickers turn up in census entries etc just to show there were other Nottinghamshire born Ann Vickers around at the same time….if my logic makes sense? 

You are right in thinking Mansfield seeming like the other end of the earth, my Grandfather was born in 1896 and his yearly treat was to go to Goose Fair, he thought it was miles away, he died in 1947 and never saw the sea!

My husbands’ Gt-Grandparents were married at St Nic’s in 1877, both of whom were born in  Crich & Clay Lane Derbyshire, why they married there I have no idea but that must have seemed a long way from home in those days.

Sheila.