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Stuck on John Dent and Mary Myers Any- advice appreciated
« on: Thursday 08 October 20 18:59 BST (UK) »
I am trying to find information on John Dent and Mary Myers 4x great grandparents, especially their parents and Johns first marriage

I found their marriage certificate and the important part reads as follows
St Dunstan and all Saints Stepney Mar 9 1787

John Dent of this parish and of the Hamlet of Ratcliff  widower and Mary Myers of this parish and formerly of the same Hamlet.

I looked up Ratcliff(e) and cannot find  a church before the early 1800s.   I learnt that Ratcliff was a very bad area of London or suburb of London at the time.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ratcliff

Any help or advice would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you and best wishes from Winnipeg Canada.

Jim

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Re: Stuck on John Dent and Mary Myers Any- advice appreciated
« Reply #1 on: Thursday 08 October 20 19:10 BST (UK) »
Hi
I don't see formerly, just that John was of this Parish and Hamlet of Ratcliff
Mary the same
Image on FamilySearch
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSF7-S7B8-B

By Banns. Looks like the second witness is a regular.


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Re: Stuck on John Dent and Mary Myers Any- advice appreciated
« Reply #2 on: Thursday 08 October 20 19:44 BST (UK) »
Thanks for the reply.  You are absolutely right it does not say fomerly
So I suppose they went to church where they married but lived in Ratcliff
I corrected my original entry.

However I think I am at dead end.


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Re: Stuck on John Dent and Mary Myers Any- advice appreciated
« Reply #3 on: Thursday 08 October 20 21:10 BST (UK) »
A possible earlier marriage at the same church...


 John Dent to Jane Elison 20 Nov 1775.

 Found on familysearch.

 Tazzie
Liscoe -all
Green/Simpson/Underwood-Beds
Walker/Foulkes/Fookes/Fooks/Hedges/Lamborne-Bucks.
Stanton/Pattrick/Cooper/Fitzjohn/Holland/Spalding-London
 Rewallin/Underwood -Devon
 Casbolt-London/Cambridge
 Favell/Favel - Lincs-Beds

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Re: Stuck on John Dent and Mary Myers Any- advice appreciated
« Reply #4 on: Thursday 08 October 20 21:28 BST (UK) »
Thank you Tazzie.  Much appreciated