Author Topic: End of line in Yeovil?  (Read 989 times)

Offline jusnoneed

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Re: End of line in Yeovil?
« Reply #9 on: Tuesday 10 September 24 12:02 BST (UK) »
Hi, yes there seem to be both Morse and Moss families to get muddled!
Worth looking at the Opc page though, years of marriage transcriptions for the village.

The Pitman family is my partners/sons side of the family, from Sherborne in Dorset. They eventually connect by marriage to the Wiltshire side of his family.
Masters, Parker, A'Court, Cary(ey), Cannon, Oram, Reynolds, Hennessy, Chivers,
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Muspratt,Pitman - Wiltshire, Dorset
Treasure - Stoke Lane & Sherborne

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Re: End of line in Yeovil?
« Reply #10 on: Tuesday 10 September 24 13:20 BST (UK) »
Looking at marriages on the Wiltshire opc site there are a number of Morse, including the 1795 James Morse and Sarah Reeves. But as for his parents a Thomas Morse married 1757 Mary Newth and not Amy Aldom as shown in the tree on Familysearch. She married ( entered as Eamy) a Thomas Moss 1764. So I would check those. May simply be a spelling/transcription error.

I didn't see any issues with these.

The Thomas Morse who married Mary Newth in 1757 is noted as being a yeoman from Rodbourne Cheney and, a year later, children of a Thomas Morse and wife Mary start to be baptised in this parish.

There is the issue of Thomas spelling his name "Moss" as opposed to "Morse" on his marriage record to Amy (who signed by mark, which would explain the strange spelling of her name), but even looking at his son James' baptism on 20th October 1771, the surname looks more like "Moss" to me, as there isn't a defined line for the "r". However, the first baptisms of children to a Thomas Morse and wife Amy take place a few months later in 1765 in Purton, Wiltshire (they are noted as being from the parish of Lydiard Millicent), which would line up with the 1764 marriage. On the balance of probabilities, and bearing in mind that Amy is one of the more uncommon forenames, I do believe that this marriage is the correct one, but please do let me know if you can find any other conflicting evidence.

Queenie  :)