My ancestor Mary Rowley married Thomas Tebbett by license on 5 April 1797 at Netherseal. Thomas' father was John Tebbett, a butcher. To complicate things further, Thomas also had a brother named John Tebbett who followed his father in this trade. I have no details about Mary's life before her marriage, only that was born about 1775 (according to her 1826 burial at Netherseal).
There was another Rowley marriage at Netherseal a year after Mary and Thomas were married. Ann Rowley (born about 1763) married Nathan Granger by license on 24 April 1798. I have a copy of the license and a John Tebbett, a butcher, signed his name. This was either my Mary's father-in-law or brother-in-law. Ann Rowley died in 1846 in Stapenhill.
Two women, born within about ten years of each other, married in the same village, with one woman having the father/brother-in-law of the other sign the marriage license. My guess is they were either sisters or cousins but I have absolutely no way of confirming this as I haven't the faintest clue where my Mary was born. The marriages of Mary and Ann Rowley are the only Rowley entries in the parish registers of Netherseal so I would guess they weren't local girls
