FOSTER/GREENWOOD marriage - Hunslet c 1810-1814

[Webby]

Hi listers, can someone help please with a marriage of a John Foster, Iron Moulder bc 1787 and Sarah Greenwood who I think may have married in Hunslet at around the above dates.  I can't seem to find anything this early.

All the Foster children were baptised at St Mary the Virgin in Hunslet and Census' put the family still in Hunslet up to 1861.  FYI, the children were:  Mary (1815), James (1817) Frederick (1819), George (1822), Rachel (1824), Sarah Ann (1826), Sarah (1829), Martha (1832), Elizabeth (1834) & Jane (1838).

Regards

Webby
 

[BumbleB]

I can't find a marriage either, BUT may I ask how you know that Sarah's surname was Greenwood?

[arthurk]

I can't find a marriage either, BUT may I ask how you know that Sarah's surname was Greenwood?

Hopefully Webby will answer this for herself, but I wondered if it came from Jane's birth certificate (1838). However, according to the GRO online index, there were two Jane Fosters born in Leeds in 1838: Jun qtr with mother's maiden name HYDE, and Dec qtr with mmn GOODISON. YorkshireBMD lists these as being in the Kirkstall and Leeds North sub-districts, but as that site doesn't break entries down by quarter I can't tell which is which. Whether those surnames will help in tracking down a marriage for John Foster to Sarah I don't know - and I haven't looked.

Another thing that might help with finding the marriage is knowing what John and Sarah's birthplaces were given as in the censuses. People moved around the West Riding quite a bit, so the marriage could easily have been somewhere other than Hunslet. Neither name is uncommon, but Greenwood is particularly plentiful in the Halifax area.

Arthur

[BumbleB]

I had tried to find the marriage via Ancestry and FindMyPast and that includes the BTs, and also checked mother's maiden names.

Hence my question as to how Webby was sure it was Sarah Greenwood. 

[arthurk]

Yes, it is puzzling, but I guess we'll have to wait for our answer as her profile says she's in Tasmania.

[dobfarm]

There is this marriage on LDS 15th July 1794 (is the LDS date wrong ? [ or your estimated marriage date wrong 1810-1814 ?]) and what denomination as religion but suspect Quaker meeting house with it being so vague on LDS)

https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:NXW4-L84

Seems strange as it gives West Yorkshire which is the modern term as it should be West Riding then

[BumbleB]

Well done - SALLY Greenwood and John Foster (Yeoman) - St Thomas, Heptonstall   

[dobfarm]

Well done - SALLY Greenwood and John Foster (Yeoman) - St Thomas, Heptonstall   

have you a date or is it 1794

[BumbleB]

Exactly the date you quoted - 15 July 1794. 

But it might not be the right marriage - it would mean that Sarah/Sally was producing children for a very long time - 1838 is a long way from 1794 

However, if nothing else, it might be an elimination.