Marriage of Damaris KING (of Chinnor, Oxon) and Thomas CARY (of Bledlow)

[Gadget]

The marriage bonds that I've seen give more info than on the indexes and any conditions that should be met. Also signatures/seals.  They should be in the appropriate  Archives.

Gadget

Yes - Oxford Diocese

[Gadget]

This might be relevant

https://www.oxford.anglican.org/tag/record-office/

[nong43]

The marriage bonds that I've seen give more info than on the indexes and any conditions that should be met. Also signatures/seals.  They should be in the appropriate  Archives.

Gadget

Yes - Oxford Diocese

Just been on the Buckinghamshire Archives website – it appears that nothing to do with Damaris and Thomas Newell's licence has survived. Or, of course, as you said, Phillimore might be wrong. 

Martin

[Gadget]

Are there any wills that might help?

[nong43]

No, nothing comes up for a Newell between 1740 and 1750.

[nong43]

The only possible thing I have to go on is naming conventions - the first daughter was usually named after her maternal grandmother...but the maternal grandmother of Damaris Newell (b. 1706) was either Margaret (if it's the 1671 Damaris) or Elizabeth (if it's the 1676 one). However, Margaret's mother was a Damari(a)s Stevens.

[Gadget]

Naming conventions aren't always followed strictly.  Damaris was the first baptism (20 Feb 1705)  of a child to them after the Sept 1704 marriage but, if it was Julian then it would be Feb 1706. Marriage would be correct.

[nong43]

Naming conventions aren't always followed strictly.  Damaris was the first baptism (20 Feb 1705)  of a child to them after the Sept 1704 marriage but, if it was Julian then it would be Feb 1706. Marriage would be correct.

True - they may have named their first daughter and son after their own grandparents as opposed to the children's - Thomas's father was an Ambrose* Newell, but his father was another Thomas.

I had forgotten that they were using the Julian Calendar in England back then, and that the year number changed on 25 March. 

*Ambrose was a popular name with the Newells, possibly introduced to the family when Susan Bigges, daughter of an Ambrose Bigges and Margerie Stephens, married a Christopher Newell in 1590.

[Gadget]

Just  a thought - there are no Margarets on the baptism list that I found. However. there is an Elizabeth:

1705 Damaris
1707 Thomas
1709 Ambrose
1710 Anne
1712 William
1714 John
1715 Elizabeth
1718 Henry
1732 Mary

Do you have access to the baptisms to double check?