1825 Marriage

[meerkat49]

 Is it possible to find out if a couple had any children born before 1837.  Francis Baskerville and Hannah Hurle were married in 1825 in Westbury on Trym, Bristol.  I do not know where to look, would be grateful for any advise.  Thank You.  Jay

[jorose]

I can on 1841 only see a Francis Baskerville aged 73 and wife Hannah aged 66 in Westbury on Trym; if this is them then they may have married quite late in life (possibly one or both previously widowed).

http://bob-hammersley.co.uk/hurle/HurleTable1%20-%20Copy.htm
 - this says that both sides were previously married.

http://pilot.familysearch.org/recordsearch/start.html
 shows a John Hurle buried 1819, Westbury on Trym - possibly a relative of Hannah (husband? brother? son?).

There is no surefire way to find every child to a family. It depends on where they were living, how mobile they were, how good the family were about having kids baptised in a timely fashion, whether they were dissenters, etc.  In this case, given the age of both husband and wife, it seems likely that there were no children to this particular marriage, although both sides may have had kids from their previous marriages.

[Jeuel]

Pre-civil registration you can find evidence of births in baptism registers.  So you'd need to look in Westbury-on-Trym and neighbouring parishes.  Children might also be mentioned in Wills, assuming their parents made them!