Marriages with different dates

[Jamie H]

I have found, on Ancestry, the information that Samuel SMITH married Sophia WRIGHT on 23rd October 1803 at Diss, Norfolk. I have also found that Samuel SMITH married Sophia WRIGHT on 6th November 1803 at Diss, Norfolk.

Can anyone help me with an explanation for this, and/or how to access Norfolk parish registers to search for the church records please

[Dundee]

This might help.

https://www.familysearch.org/wiki/en/Banns_of_marriage

They were married on 6 Nov 1803 and the banns were read on 9, 16 and 23 October 1803.

The church registers are on Ancestry.

Debra 

[Jamie H]

Thank you very much Debra.I'm finding it hard to work my way around Ancestry but I guess I could do a general search of some kind. But I shall follow up on the link you provided.

[trish1120]

If you havent tried FreeREG its a excellent site for Norfolk Records.
The Marriage is on there 6 Nov 1803
+ Bapt of SOPHIA to them 26 Mar 1804 and her Burial 02 Jul 1804

+ a Bapt of Sophia WRIGHT  12 Oct 1776 Wymondham, Norfolk
And her Parents Marriage 14 Nov 1774

Trish

[Jamie H]

Thank you so much Trish. I looked at FreeReg. So, is the information given on FreeReg taken from the parish registers? I know there's not the same amount of information given in the registers as it was in later years.

I couldn't find baptism details of Samuel Smith. I have found he was a chaff cutter and the couple moved to Maldon in Essex after, or at the time of, baby Sophia's death. I wonder if a chaff cutter moved around a lot and he might have come from Essex in the first place and been cutting chaff in Norfolk where he met Sophia.

Thank you (and Debra earlier) for your help.

[trish1120]

Yes the FreeREG info is taken by volunteers from Parish Records

[trish1120]

Samuels Death Reg;
SMITH, SAMUEL age 74*** 
GRO Reference: 1849  D Quarter in MALDON  Volume 12  Page 107
(born c 1775)

There is a Samuel Bapt 1776 Maldon on FreeREG to SAMUEL/SARAH

Samuel married Sarah CARDER 14 Feb 1768 Maldon

(they had a earlier Samuel 1775 who appears to have died a few mths later (no age given)

2 problems here;
Smith is a common name and 1841 Samuel says he is not born in the County ie Essex    

[Jamie H]

I know what you mean about SMITH being a common name. I've not followed up my Smiths for a while and have recorded what I found in the Reunion programme. I hadn't got anything earlier than Samuel Smith in Norfolk marrying Sophia Wright and then re-locating to Maldon in Essex. And I had found Samuel and Sophia weren't born in Essex, as you say. But I have the death record of Samuel's death as 1847 in the Union Workhouse, Maldon.  And a son, George Samuel Smith (aka Samuel George Smith) born 1805. I know that's the right line because it leads to my great-grandfather James Smith and down to Ernest Smith my grandfather etc.

I think you are right about a Samuel dying, followed by another Samuel (maybe that was the Samuel George) but I can't remember where I saw that.

Anyway, I mustn't bore you with all this. I wanted to follow my Smith line back because I had wondered if there was a Romany connection. 'Smith' and 'Wright' (and 'Porter' which comes into it) are names Gypsies used, but I know that doesn't mean that everyone with those names were Romany.

Thank you for listening -:)

 Zillah

[trish1120]

Your welcome Zillah