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Offline trish1120

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Oldest Groom ever?
« on: Saturday 09 April 22 05:27 BST (UK) »
I was doing some research for a poster and came upon this.
Totally unrelated to my search but absolutely amazed me!


http://www.rjw-data.info/DGC%20PDF%20files/1830.pdf

Go down to Marriages 19th Jan 1830 ;D
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Cummins, Miskelly(IRELAND + NZ) ,Leggett (SFK + NFK ENGLAND + NZ),Purdy ( NBL ENGLAND + NZ ), Shaw YKS, LANCs + NZ), Holdsworth(LINCS +LANCS + NZ), Moloney, Dean, Fitzpatrick, ( County Down,IRE) Newby(NBL.ENG, Costello(IRE), Ivers, Murray(IRE),Reay(NBL.ENG) Reid (BERW.SCOTLAND)

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Re: Oldest Groom ever?
« Reply #1 on: Saturday 09 April 22 06:04 BST (UK) »
I have a few years to go to have a chance of matching that.

However, OH would not be amenable to the idea :D

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Re: Oldest Groom ever?
« Reply #2 on: Saturday 09 April 22 07:30 BST (UK) »
I think it was Ann Bancroft who once said “The best way to get a husband to do something is to suggest that perhaps he's too old to do it.” In this case he probably was!

Just looking in the papers, the marriage was widely reported in lots of papers all over England.  :)

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Re: Oldest Groom ever?
« Reply #3 on: Saturday 09 April 22 08:07 BST (UK) »
I tried to look for a Death for him with no luck, although I have little experience with English/Scottish Newspapers research.
Did some reading on General Wolfe though!

Trish :)
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Cummins, Miskelly(IRELAND + NZ) ,Leggett (SFK + NFK ENGLAND + NZ),Purdy ( NBL ENGLAND + NZ ), Shaw YKS, LANCs + NZ), Holdsworth(LINCS +LANCS + NZ), Moloney, Dean, Fitzpatrick, ( County Down,IRE) Newby(NBL.ENG, Costello(IRE), Ivers, Murray(IRE),Reay(NBL.ENG) Reid (BERW.SCOTLAND)

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Re: Oldest Groom ever?
« Reply #4 on: Saturday 09 April 22 11:09 BST (UK) »
Did he go back to America? There is a burial in 1831 of a John WRIGHT born 1729 "Revolutionary War Veteran", though it doesn't have Catherine as spouse.
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/37155948/john-wright

Common name, makes it difficult.  :)

Modified to strike through - no, he died in 1838 according to an obit in "The Belfast Newsletter" 22 May 1838 (and various other papers) :D

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« Reply #5 on: Saturday 09 April 22 11:17 BST (UK) »
The Belfast Newsletter issue of 22nd May 1838 (in Ancestry) carries a lovely piece in respect of John's life - following his death, in Edinburgh, on 11th May "in the 110th year of his age".

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« Reply #6 on: Saturday 09 April 22 11:48 BST (UK) »
Thank you both for that.

It made my day :)
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« Reply #7 on: Saturday 09 April 22 13:25 BST (UK) »
If he had hung on for 3 years and 1 month, he would have made the 1841 census, aged 113.  ;D
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LONDON, Coombs, Roberts, Auber, Helsdon, Fradine, Morin, Goodacre
DORSET Coombs, Munday
NORFOLK Helsdon, Riches, Harbord, Budery
KENT Roberts, Goodacre
SUSSEX Walder, Boniface, Dinnage, Standen, Lee, Botten, Wickham, Jupp
SUFFOLK Titshall, Frost, Fairweather, Mayhew, Archer, Eade, Scarfe
DURHAM Stewart, Musgrave, Wilson, Forster
SCOTLAND Stewart in Selkirk
USA Musgrave, Saix
ESSEX Cornwell, Stock, Quilter, Lawrence, Whale, Clift
OXON Edgington, Smith, Inkpen, Snell, Batten, Brain

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Re: Oldest Groom ever?
« Reply #8 on: Saturday 09 April 22 13:27 BST (UK) »
Quote from: coombs on Saturday 09 April 22 13:25 BST (UK)
If he had hung on for 3 years and 1 month, he would have made the 1841 census, aged 113.  ;D

but he would have been rounded down to 110
Berks / Oxon: Eltham, Annetts, Wiltshire (surname not county), Hawkins, Pembroke, Partridge
Dorset / Hants: Derham, Stride, Purkiss, Sibley
Yorkshire: Pottage, Carr, Blackburn, Depledge
Sussex: Goodyer, Christopher, Trevatt
Lanark: Scott (soldier went to Jersey CI)
Jersey: Fowler, Huelin, Scott
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