What happened to Mary?

[JenB]

You could try the Durham Bishops Transcripts which are online here http://search.labs.familysearch.org/recordsearch/start.html#p=waypoint;s=waypointsOnly;c=1309819;w=0
and seem to contain the Ovingham Registers.

You will have to trawl page by page, they are not searchable.

Jennifer

[JenB]

You will find the marriage you seek on the above site, Northumberland / Ovingham. Enter 543 in the box marked 'image' and press the return key.
I will leave you to judge what the bride's surname is 

[ssnowball]

Hi Jen

Thanks for this - a very useful site and certainly one I'll be visiting again.

However, the Mary Snowball I was hoping for is in fact Mary Swalwell.  Very difficult to read but clearer in the section for the signing of the register by bride and groom. Mary Swalwell and William Gray were the couple, witnessed by Thomas Swalwell and Jane Surtees.

Oh well, back to the drawing board!

Many thanks once again.

Steve

[Preshous]

Hi Steve
There is a marriage for a Mary Snowball to Ridley Rewcastle in Warden in 1837 from the George Bell collection via GENUKI.

Gary

[ssnowball]

Hi Gary

Thanks for this lead.

I had a look at the Warden marriage registers from the site recommended earlier today by Jennifer
(http://search.labs.familysearch.org/recordsearch/start.html#p=waypoint;s=waypointsOnly;c=1309819;w=0)
The entry for the Ridley Rewcastle/ Mary Snowball marriage should be on Image 170.

I know the handwriting is often faint or hard to decipher but there doesn't appear to be a Ridley Rewcastle /Mary Snowball marriage here for 1837. This also applies to the entries for:
17 Dec?     1836  Robert Charlton = Margery Stokoe
 4  Feb 1837  Ridley Rewcastle = Mary Snowball
18 Feb 1837  John Rowland = Catherine Johnson
18 Mar 1837  John Blacklock = Jane Weir
 
This list of four 'missing' marriages are all taken from the Bell transcriptions of Marriages from the Registers of Warden (1813-1837). However, on the Family Search site (showing the actual Warden registers) these are all missing or so faint, they are  invisible! Entries before and after this small batch are clearly evident.

Is this my incompetence or am I correct?

The findmypast site (referred to earlier) verifies your Genuki findings for Warden for 4th February 1837 for a Rewcastle/ Snowball marriage, so someone must have seen evidence in the register!

Steve

[JenB]

The Charlton - Stokoe marriage is on image 169. The date given on the transcript is 17th September 1836.

Sadly, however, there do seem to be some pages missing. The 1836 burials also appear to be incomplete.

[JenB]

In 1841 a Mary Rewcastle together with Ann, 5,  Elizabeth, 3, and Bridget, 1, are with Cuthbert and Mary Snowball & family at Corbridge.
HO 107 / 838 / Book 4/ Folio 45 / Page 3.

In 1851 Ridley Rewcastle, widower, and children Mary Ann, Elizabeth, Bridget and Joseph are in Elvet, Durham.
HO 107 / 2390 / Folio 286 / Page 1

[Preshous]

The Mary Snowball Ridley Rewcastle marriage is in the Warden/Newbrough collection @ image 156.

[ssnowball]

Hi Gary and Jennifer

Of course, I must be going ever so slightly mad, as my Mary Snowball is still in situ with her family on the 1841 Census, living at Westgate, Newcastle upon Tyne!  Doh!

So, why did I get waylaid by a possible marriage in 1837? Who knows but I bet I'm not the only one who's got too carried away for their own good.

Now, back to some serious investigation after that little diversion. Still, it gave me a great site (thanks Jen!) for the Durham Bishops Transcripts which has kept me busy on other aspects of my family history.
However, still no sign of Mary beyond the 1841 Census. Death and marriages reveal nothing and no evidence in wills of siblings either.

Thanks for the help so far

Steve