benjamin clark(e) b c 1815 Kimbolton

[larkspur]

Any help at all please with this brick wall. Benjamins wife was Catherine? and he had 4 children Charles b 1840, Adelaide 1845, Eustace 1847 and Heber 1852. He was a schoolmaster, all this from the census'

[bedfordshire boy]

For anyone else looking  Catherine was also born in Kimbolton, as were the children. So on the face they should have married in Kimbolton. But I can't see a marriage on the BVRI which covers post 1837, nor on Hunts Marriage Index which goes up to 1837. I'm still looking

If you get a copy of the birth certificate of one of the children (assuming their births were registered) you will get the mother's maiden name.

David

[bedfordshire boy]

Still nothing! Your best bet is to get the birth cert of one of the children - Eustace's birth was registered in the Dec quarter 1845 per FreeBMD. Is his middle name of Carey a clue?

In 1841 a Thomas Armsby was living with them. There were other Armsbys living in Kimbolton. Might he have been Catherine's brother? (The IGI has an extracted birth on 3 May 1816 of Catherine Armsby daughter of Richard Armsby and Deborah Croxton taken from the records of The Dissenting Meeting House-Baptist, Kimbolton)

David

[larkspur]

Many thanks for all your hard work David, I was hoping someone would have him in their tree but I suppose that is too easy. I found the catherine Armsby baptism thankyou again.