Info: Marriages registered at St Mary's Gt Leighs

[alison300]

Some years ago I viewed the marriage register of St Mary's Great Leighs.  I was only interested in the name Willis but thought the below transcriptions might be useful to others:

Porter WILLIS to Sofia TAYLOR on 18.4.1863 @ St. Mary’s Great Leighs
Father Willism WILLIS (deceased) and William TAYLOR
Witnesses: Albert TAYLOR and Eliza TAYLOR

John CLARK to Jane WILLIS on 3.2.1872 @ St. Mary’s Great Leighs
Father Joseph CLARK and Charles WILLIS
Witnesses: David MEAD and Eliza SMITH

Thomas WILLIS (widower) to Eliza KETLEY (spinster) on 14.2.1840 @ St. Mary’s Great Leighs
Father Thomas WILLIS and ?
Witnesses: John WILLIS and Rhoda WILLIS

John WILLIS to Hannah MEAD on 18.10.1844 @ St. Mary’s Great Leighs
Father Thomas WILLIS and ?
Witnesses: William JIGGINS and Eliza MEAD

William NEVILLE (shoemaker) to Sarah WILLIS on 25.7.1845 @ St. Mary’s Great Leighs
Father John WILLIS
Witnesses: William COLLINS and Susannah OWENS

George BEARMAN to Eliza WILLIS on 14.7.1855 @ St. Mary’s Great Leighs
Father Thomas BEARMAN and William WILLIS
Witnesses: James SMITH and Susan WILLIS

James LEWIN to Susannah WILLIS on 23.6.1861 @ St. Mary’s Great Leighs
Father Robert LEWIN and William WILLIS
Witnesses: Rob JACKAMAN and Rhoda JACKAMON

Henry WELLS (age 52) to Rosannah WILLIS (age 37) on 10.3.1903 @ St. Mary’s Great Leighs
Father William WELLS and Porter WILLIS
Witnesses: William DEE and Alice WILLIS

John Alfred KETLEY (age 33) to Emily WILLIS (age 31) on 25.12.1907 @ St. Mary’s Great Leighs
Father George WILLIS and Jonathan KETLEY
Witnesses: George WILLIS and Emma & Ada WILLIS

Walter SMITH (age 46) to Alice WILLIS (age 40) on 24.7.1915 @ St. Mary’s Great Leighs
Father John SMITH and George WILLIS
Witnesses: George WILLIS and Emma WILLIS

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Hi Alison
John Alfred Ketley was my grandfather.
Don't know your interest in the Willis family.
But have good photographs of Emily John's first wife, and her sister Ellen
John's second wife.
Also a digital record of all the postcards the sisters sent to one another
whie in service.

Regards
David K

[alison300]

Hi David,

Thanks for getting in touch.  I am been researching the Willis family for about 10 years now.  My late-father's mother was Dorothy Winifred Willis (b1895) - she was a cousin of Emily's.  Dorothy's father was Alfred b1852.

I visited Gt Leighs church several years ago as they still held the registers and wrote down the details of every Willis mentioned.  You have solved a puzzle of mine - the records told me that J.A. Ketley was buried with Ellen but I had no idea he had married his wife's sister.  Did Emily die young?  Do you know when?  Would love to know more for my records.  Happy to share all my info. or send you my 'tree'?