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Originally Posted by kiterunner

This is the marriage to Sarah Kendall:

https://www.ancestry.co.uk/interactive/4994/40458_316603-00160?pid=3913501&treeid=&personid=&rc=&usePUB=tru e#?_phcmd=u%28'https:%2F%2Fwww.ancestry.co.uk%2Fse arch%2F%3Fname%3Drichard_hemming%26spouse%3Dsarah_ kendall%26successSource%3DSearch%26queryId%3DrBFdR Ons2kTyUZgKaa%2Fxsw%3D%3D','successSource'%29&imag eId=40458_316603-00160

19 Feb 1838 Edgbaston. In those early days of civil registration, some vicars didn't think the fathers' details needed to be filled in unless the bride or groom was under-age. But I would think the witness Richard Hemming who has signed his name is Richard's father, meaning that Warwickshire marriage in 1779 is unlikely to be the right one.

I tried to find the death of Richard senr in the Birmingham area after Feb 1838. The only one I could see was barely old enough (apparently born about 1770) - died in 1842 aged 72 and is on the 1841 census at 68 great Russell St Birmingham aged 70. Sensibly, he probably isn't old enough. His occupation is button maker.