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Brit

Brit Report 25 Sep 2007 01:40

I have been searching for the marriage of Edward Wright b 1797 St Pancras to Elizabeth Martha ???
On the 1841 she is showing herself as Martha aged 40 living St Giles in the Fields Holborn. I think she died not long afterwards, possibly June 1845.
I can't find anything for either of them on the 1851 anyway and on the next two censuses Edward is living with his daughter and her family.

I looked on Palletts and I looked on IGI with no luck. Any suggestions please?

JaneyCanuck

JaneyCanuck Report 25 Sep 2007 02:34

There was quite the gap between the birth of their son Thomas and his christening:

1. ELIZABETH MARTHA WRIGHT - born 1832
Gender: Female Christening: 27 APR 1834 Saint Leonards, Shoreditch, London, England

2. THOMAS WRIGHT - born 1824
Gender: Male Christening: 27 APR 1834 Saint Leonards, Shoreditch, London, England

-- found daughter Elizabeth per data in 1861 census, used her batch number, C040806, to search for births of Wrights with father Edward.

Do you suppose there was some pre-existing marriage or some such?

One set of my gr-grparents got married several years after their last child was born, at the age of 45, over 20 years after they were first seen cohabiting with kids in the censuses. I'm convinced one of them had an existing marriage, but I'm danged if I can find it. They managed to register all the kids in his name with her birth surname shown in the usual way for married couples, nonetheless.

A marriage like this could be your couple's, if that were the case:

EDWARD WRIGHT
Spouse: ELIZABETH BROWN
Marriage: 15 APR 1858 Saint Leonards, Shoreditch, London, England

just f'rinstance. Or they might have married contemporaneously with having the children christened?

Or they might not have married ...

Researching:
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Brit

Brit Report 25 Sep 2007 03:20

Hi Thanks for looking. I also found another child on the IGI born 1835.

On the IGI it shows that the mother of all the children is Elizabeth, the father Edward. But the daughter is Elizabeth Martha, a name that continues down the family.

And on the 1841 the wife is shown as M(e)artha. I am sure this has to be the same family as the children and their ages are all the same and Edward is the same occupation and age.

You could be right about the marriage. I found one to an Elizabeth Green 1817 and one to a Martha Cordery 1819, (but nothing that says Elizabeth Martha.) which would be before the first child, but it is still possible they were not married or were married later.

Thanks anyway for your input Kathryn.