Marriage Index

[jillruss]

I'd appreciate some help in finding the marriage of

Nicholas Garrett & Edith (or possibly Judith)

sometime around 1650-5. Their children were baptised in Mapledurham but I can't find the marriage there.

And possibly another Nicholas Garrett marriage between 1672 and 1674. (There is a Mapledurham burial for 'Edith w. Nicholas Garrett in 1671/2 but a baptism for an Edith Garrett in 1674, d/o Nicholas!! I don't see an earlier baptism for a Nicholas jnr whose child this could be!)
Thanks,
Jill

[Myfi!]

  Hi Jill 

26 Sep 1653  Caversham
                      Nicholas GARRET & Ida SADGROVE (could this be Edith?)

5 Nov 1673  Caversham
                    Nicholas GARRATT & Susan JAMES


Myfi

[jillruss]

Hi Myfi,

You clever girl!   

Mind you, these bloomin parish clerks never fail to amaze me! 

I think this lady's name must have been Edith, but the Mapledurham clerk calls her Judith once in the baptism record for one of her children, and now it looks like the Caversham clerk was equally challenged! Ida? Edith?

Given that Nicholas and Edith/Ida/Judith had their first child baptised in Mapledurham in 1655 and that Caversham is so near Mapledurham, this MUST be the right marriage!

And you even found the second marriage! Brill!

One thing I've noticed (which annoys me greatly!) is that - particularly in this bit of Oxon, families seem to divide their BMDs between several neighbouring parishes. They seem to overlap a lot, so you never know which parish to search!

Thanks everso - once again - Myfi. One step forward (or should that be backwards) with the Garretts!!

Jill