Surrey Records - ancestry

[Ann from Sussex]

Thanks Kate. I'm off to see if they have the elusive marriage of my 4xgt grandparents, Hugh and Keturah Daniels who lived in Rotherhithe in the early 1800s. All their children were baptised there but there is no marriage record that I can find. I don't hold out much hope but it's worth a try.

[Ann from Sussex]

Zero matches. Well, there's a surprise.....

[James18]

I was my great aunt's first marriage would be there now. No luck.

[Phoenix]

Originally Posted by Ann from Sussex

Thanks Kate. I'm off to see if they have the elusive marriage of my 4xgt grandparents, Hugh and Keturah Daniels who lived in Rotherhithe in the early 1800s. All their children were baptised there but there is no marriage record that I can find. I don't hold out much hope but it's worth a try.

My gut feeling would be Norfolk, Yorkshire, Durham, Scotland. Or Hampshire.

People gravitated to Rotherhithe from all over, but mainly along shipping routes.

[Phoenix]

Originally Posted by James18

I was my great aunt's first marriage would be there now. No luck.

Can you find the marriage in civil registration? Something that recent may well have not been in a c of e church.

[Phoenix]

Given that the spinster in this register could not write, have you discounted this, Ann:

http://interactive.ancestry.co.uk/16...nSearchResults

[Ann from Sussex]

Originally Posted by Phoenix

My gut feeling would be Norfolk, Yorkshire, Durham, Scotland. Or Hampshire.

People gravitated to Rotherhithe from all over, but mainly along shipping routes.

Hugh was from Wales and he had a shop in Rotherhithe. 8 of their 9 children were born there and baptised at St Mary's, Rotherhithe. The 9th was born after they crossed the river to Limehouse but they still brought her back to Rotherhithe to be baptised, making me think maybe that was where they had married which made it special to them. There was a Keturah Witts born/baptised in Rotherhithe at about the right time for her to be my rellie but I found a marriage record for her.....so the search goes on!

Originally Posted by Phoenix

Given that the spinster in this register could not write, have you discounted this, Ann:

http://interactive.ancestry.co.uk/16...nSearchResults

Yes, thanks Phoenix. I investigated that one when the LMA records first went on Ancestry because Keturah and Catherine have the same root. However, as I recall, without searching out my records, that Catherine died around 1815, meaning she couldn't be Keturah. Keturah had her last child in 1818, appears in various later records and I have her death certificate from 1841.

[Phoenix]

Interesting that she was so much younger than her husband. I looked to see whether poor law records gave any clues, but they didn't.

[Ann from Sussex]

I have followed this couple through every record I can find. They were in and out of the workhouse a few times towards the end of Keturah's life but the records don't give any clue as to her origins. I have reason to believe the marriage registers for St Mary's, Rotherhithe from the last few years of the 18th century are lost. I estimate that is when they would have married as their first child was born in 1800....if they WERE married, of course!

[James18]

Originally Posted by Phoenix

Can you find the marriage in civil registration? Something that recent may well have not been in a c of e church.

Yeah, I just don't have the image scan, which I do for her second marriage. It's definitely not on Ancestry, as I've tried searching for a variety of different spellings on the off-chance it's just been mistranscribed.

I've no idea why it isn't on Ancestry, but I suppose not all records are. Can't think why it wouldn't have been CofE.