I had another look today at Peter & Elizabeth Williams. I started with the ’61 where they reside at Letterston as a Carpenter which you have full details for. They appear in the ’51 without the ‘s’ on the surname, which caused a bit of head scratching for a few minutes, but found them again at Letterston, there oldest daughter is shown as Mary born 1845 ‘ish.
Since the ’41 shows Peter as apprentice carpenter, it also appears to confirm he is not yet mrd, So this indicated he mrd between 1841 and 1845. I double checked both the mrge and baptism registers of Letterston, there is no reference in either to this family.
So I consulted Free BMD which shows a Peter Williams mrd to Elizabeth Smith in 1844 in the H’west registration district which covers chapels in the Letterston area.
I returned to the 1841 census and found an Elizabeth Smith resident at Letterston with siblings and what appears to be her possible mother Anne.
Looking at Tenby circa 1820’s I note there are 3 baptism of an Elizabeth Smith in the area, 2 at Tenby in 1822 and 1 at Lampeter Velfrey. Of the 3 only one has a mother Anne and that is at Tenby ;
20th Feb 1822 Elizabeth to Francis and Ann Smith of the Town a Carpenter by Rev’d W. Hughes baptised.
I had an inkling that Anne in the ’41 may be a widow so a search followed and I found at Lampeter Velfrey the following burial
Francis Smith of Drffryn buried 11 Oct 1826 aged 41 yrs by Wm Morgan.
There is some possible confusion over forename it may be Frances (i.e. female spelling) and not Francis(male spelling) also on the same page I find ;
Joshua Smith of Drffryn buried 14 May 1826 aged 10 months
Joshua of 1826 and Elizabeth of 1821 baptised at Lampeter Velfrey are children of James & Frances Smith, so this may be a blind alley.
Given that Francis and Ann Smith are the parents of your Elizabeth then when I looked again at Tenby P.R.’s I found
07th Nov 1813 Francis Smith otp a Carpenter and Widower mrd Anne Watkins otp by banns in front of Nich Roch Rector. Francis signed his name and Anne made her mark in the presence of John Watkins and Elizabeth Smith (Elizabeth’s surname may also be read as Sinnett, a surname known in Tenby and part of my own research in the town).
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I believe that the 1st mrge of Francis may well be when he mrd Margaret Lewis at Tenby in 1803.
So it would appear that Elizabeth Smith mrd into a non-conformist family and since post 1837 mrge was now permitted in Chapel, whereas prior to 1837 it had to be in established church, the only way I can see at present is to obtain the mrge cert of Peter to Elizabeth of 1844, from this you will obtain Peter’s father and from that a relatively easy step for me to find Peter’s parents mrge.
Of course the above only holds good providing you accept my finding, that’s for you to decide.
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