Good afternoon Marge,
I have just read your latest email. I have been worrying all morning about the 10 year age gap between Joseph and Matilda and reviewing all my sources.
It is very nice to hear from you again and to know you are still on "my case".
The informant on Joseph's death cert (30 Oct 1863 at Matfield Brenchley) is written as follows:
+ Mark of
Jane Swan
Inmate
(Deceased being occupier)
Matfield Brenchley
The cause of death is marked as "Found dead in bed"
By the way, I wonder what the difference is between an inmate and an occupier: owner .v. sharer / tennant perhaps?
Thanks for the possible christening record. It may be significant because I believe (but not 100% confirmed) that Joseph was married twice: 1st as a batchelor to a Keturah Rogers in 1813 at All Saints, Fulham, Middlesex, and then as a widower to Matilda Green in 1826 at St Mark, Kennington, Lambeth, Surrey. I have found copies of the original banns. It has always worried me that these banns were not recorded in Brenchley or at least somewhere in Kent and so I have not given them too much importance. The interesting thing now is that one of the witnesses at Joseph's marriage to Keturah was a Frances Diamond. The others were John Rogers Junr., William Rogers and Fanny Trimbleby. The mention of Frances Gibbon as Joseph's mother is therefore very interesting.
Strangely, even with an unusual name like Keturah, I have not been able to find either a birth/baptism or a death record.
