Genealogy Chat

Yes, I could murder my great grandparents. The fact that they died in the late 1800s is besides the point.

I cannot find a marriage for the pair. I have trawled from when she was 14 until the day she died......and nowt !!!!! They had quite a big family, and certainly my grandmother was very prim, so I am asuming they would not have lived in sin.


I WILL find that document if it`s the last thing I do. Fed up and far from home as muy old mum would have said.

Kathlyn,

Give us some details, Kathlyn, and see if we can help,

Hi Potty,

This is the details :-

AMELIA JENNINGS, born in Bromley in 1835 married JAMES HADLEy.

Their first child was born in JFM 1855.

Should you find anything, you will be top of my Christmas list from now until the end of the world lol.


Kathlyn

Parish Registers might be the answer...if you know where the marriage might have taken place.

She was born in Bromley, so it could have been any one of the parishes round about.

Kathlyn

Sorry for delay - had a visitor.

Have you got Amelia and James on the 1861. I can't find them. What was the first child's name?

Is this Amelia mistranscribed:
1861 England Census
about Maller Hadley
Name: Maller Hadley
Age: 26
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1835
Relation: Wife
Spouse's Name: James
Gender: Female
Where born: Bromley, Middlesex, England

Civil Parish: Bromley St Leonard
Town: Middlesex
County/Island: Middlesex
Country: England

Street address:

Occupation:

Condition as to marriage: View Image

Registration district: Poplar
Sub-registration district: Bow
ED, institution, or vessel: 1
Neighbors: View others on page
Household schedule number: 113
Household Members: Name Age
Elizabeth Hadley 3
James Hadley 32
Maller Hadley 26
Medoda Hadley 6
William Hadley 1
Elizabeth Jennings 72
Robert Yodyer 36

Are you sure Amelia's maiden name was Jennings? Are you assuming that the Elizabeth Jennings on the 1861 is her mother? She could be James's - same POB

I always assumed my Great Grandparents were married but could never find an entry for them.

Then I found Great Grandads will on A2A and he left all his wordly goods to Great Gran in her maiden name and Spinster next to it.

Linda

I have been assuming that she was born in Bromley, Kent, but the records show Bromley St Leonard, Middlesex, which appears to be Bromley by Bow, East London, so Poplar is in the right areas

Sorry, can't find a marriage - have been looking for James rather than Amelia just in case Elizabeth Jennings is his mother - 1861 has her as Mother, 1871 Mother-in-Law. Do you have any of the children's birth certs to confirm Amelia's maiden name?

Clutching at straws here - Amelia Jennings born Marylebone, Middlesex, with mother Elizabeth living in Harborn, Staffs. A James Hadley also living in Harborn. Elizabeth and James both glass workers. Amelia's James in 1881 is a furnace man.

1851 England Census
about Amelia Jennings
Name: Amelia Jennings
Age: 12
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1839
Relation: Daughter
Mother's Name: Elizabeth
Gender: Female
Where born: Marelebine, Middlesex, England

Civil Parish: Harborne
Ecclesiastical parish: North Harborne
County/Island: Staffordshire
Country: England

Street address:

Occupation:

Condition as to marriage:

Disability: View Image

Registration district: Kings Norton
Sub-registration district: Harborne
ED, institution, or vessel: 2e
Neighbors: View others on page
Household schedule number: 218
Household Members: Name Age
Alfred Jennings 4
Amelia Jennings 12
Elizabeth Jennings 41
Emily Jennings 2
Henry Jennings 6
Mariah Jennings 15
William Jennings 17


1851 England Census
about James Hadley
Name: James Hadley
Age: 19
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1832
Relation: Son
Father's Name: Samuel
Mother's Name: Jane
Gender: Male
Where born: Smethwick, Staffordshire, England

Civil Parish: Harborne
Ecclesiastical parish: North Harborne
County/Island: Staffordshire
Country: England

Street address:

Occupation:

Condition as to marriage:

Disability: View Image

Registration district: Kings Norton
Sub-registration district: Harborne
ED, institution, or vessel: 2e
Neighbors: View others on page
Household schedule number: 1
Household Members: Name Age
James Hadley 19
Samuel Hadley 37
Thos Hadley 15
Jane Hadly 37