Indenture is among my late father's papers, along with the Certificate of Marriage of Charles Cross and Eliza Smallwood:
The marriage certificate shows, as bridegroom, Charles Cross, aged 27, Bachelor, an Engineer, resident in Deritend, son of John Cross, Farmer.
Charles Cross' bride was Eliza Smallwood, age 29, Spinster, also resident in Deritend, daughter of John Smallwood, Fish hook maker.
Charles Cross was born around 1829, at Winsham, Somerset (Census 1881 : In the Census, he was described as Mechanical Engineer, dwelling, in 1881, at Ipsley Street, Studley, Warwick). Studley "was one of the earliest centres of the local industry of needlemaking . . . Though the centre of the industry has now shifted to Redditch, there are still two large needle-mills here and several smaller concerns which produce fishing tackle." (Victoria County History - Warwickshire: Volume 3, Barlichway Hundred Parishes: Studley Pages 175-187
http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/warks/vol3/pp175-187#h3-0002 ). There is a Needle Museum in Redditch (
http://www.forgemill.org.uk/ ).
They were married on 1 December 1855 at the Church of Saint Peter and Saint Paul, Aston, in the County of Warwick, after Banns had been read. The witnesses were John Smallwood and Harriet Smallwood. The officant vicar was Geo. Peake.