Marriage look-up Campton, Bedford

[suecee]

RICHARD CARTER SMITH married MARY WILLIAMSON 24 Nov1825 Campton.

Can any one give me the details of this marriage, particularly the father of Richard Smith.

Thanks

[bedfordshire boy]

An 1825 marriage entry will not contain fathers' names, just the names of the witnesses and the parishes of residence at the time of the marriage if not otp. There's no transcript of Campton PR post 1812, nor is Campton post 1812 extracted into either the IGI or BVRI. You either need to order and view the microfilm from your nearest LDS Family History Centre, or visit Bedford Archives

David

[suecee]

I should have remembered that I wouldn't get the father's name. His siblings married post 1837 and the information is there. I just wanted more confirmation that I had the right man.

Thanks for the information re the Campton PR post 1812.

suecee

[dmollison]

Haven't seen the marriage entry, but here are their children:

Richard Carter Smith / Mary Williamson
m 24 Nov 1825 Campton, Beds
->
Frances Hester Smith      b 14 Aug 1827   St Olave
 (Richard Carter Smith, Merchant, & Mary, no.20 Shepherd Market)
- married 3 Jun 1856 St Dunstan, Stepney; d 1908
- husband Edward Atkinson (1819-1915), Master of Clare College Cambridge 1856-1915 (!)
Mary Carter Smith      c 2 Oct 1829   Chr Ch, Southwark
Richard Goodhall Smith          c 5 Apr 1832   Chr Ch, Southwark
- Richard Carter & Mary, Stamford St, Merchant
Ann Maria Smith         21 Apr 1835   St P
Elizabeth Harriet Smith      23 Jun 1837   St P
Edmond Henry Carter Smith   11 Jul, c 17 Sep 1839   St Pancras
- RC & Mary Smith of Kentish Town, Merchant; bapt. by Richard Williamson DD

AND his family:

Henry Smith 
Hester Beavis Carter
m 17 Oct 1785 St Mary Bothaw
(HS widower otp, HBC spinster of the parish of Edmonton;
by Henry Owen, rector of St Olave, Hart St;
witn.  William Blizard, Maria Blizard, Anne Carter, Mary Carter)
->
Hester Carter Smith   b 9 Oct, c 7 Nov 1786 - St Swithin London Stone
Henry William Smith   c 28 Sep 1787 - St Swithin London Stone
?? Henry Webb Smith   b 4 Apr, c 27 Jun 1790 - Saint Olave,Southwark
- father Henry Smith, mother Elizabeth
Christopher Webb Smith   b 30 May, c 27? Jun 1793   St Giles, Camberwell, Surrey
- bird artist, etc - d 18 Jan 1871 Florence
William Blizard Smith   b 18 Apr, c 14 May 1795 - St Giles, Camberwell, Surrey
- d 18 Jul 1835 Bengal
Helen Jane Smith   c 4 May 1797 - St Giles, Camberwell, Surrey,
Robert Webb Smith   c 10 Jul 1799 - St Giles, Camberwell, Surreyy
Richd. Carter Smith   c 21 Dec 1801 - Saint Giles,Camberwell
Gerard Edwd Smith   b 28 Jan, c 24 Feb 1804 - St Giles, Camberwell, Surrey

AND hers:

Rev Edmund Williamson / Phoebe Riland (d 23 Oct 1840 aged 73?, Park St, Lonodn)
m 28 Jan 1793 Sutton Coldfield
->
Edmund Ryland Williamson c 23 Oct 1795 - Old Warden,Bedford
Frances Williamson   c 7 Dec 1798 - Campton,Bedford
Mary Williamson       c 6 Dec 1799 - Campton,Bedford
Catherine Williamson   c 8 Apr 1801 - Campton,Bedford
Richard Williamson   c 28 Dec 1802 - Campton,Bedford
- headmaster of Westminster School 1828-46
William Williamson   c 7 Feb 1804 - Campton,Bedford
- fellow and tutor of Clare Coll, Cambridge
Elizabeth Williamson   c 2 Jul 1805 - Campton,Bedford
Henry Williamson   c 1 May 1807 - Campton,Bedford
Anne Williamson      c 28 Sep 1809 - Campton,Bedford

[suecee]

Thanks for going to the trouble of looking all that up. It was over three years ago I posted the query and have since acquired a lot of information about their children. The family is very well connected and there is a lot about them online.

suecee

[dmollison]

Thanks for your thanks, but I'd already found them when I came across your query.  I was working backwards from Edward Atkinson, who died 100 years ago - my great-grandfather succeeded him at Clare - who married Frances Hester Smith in 1856.

Among the "lot about them online" I found that her cousin, daughter of bird artist Christopher Webb Smith, is the heroine (if that's the right word) of a recent novel, "The Sealed Letter" by Emma Donoghue.

Is there a connection between Frances's families and the William Webb (b Sutton Coldfield 1775, d 1856) who was Atkinson's predecessor?  Her father's family (e.g. Christopher Webb Smith) have the Webb name, and her mother's a connection with Sutton Coldfield - her mother's brother was rector there, and her mother's parents married there in 1793.