Can anyone find this marriage please.

[Merry]

lol My turn to be too slow!

[Oakum Picker]

Well that's a first for me.

[HarrysMum]

Why do my lot do this to me?

Thank you all. As I said above his daughter Carolina was a convict on the first fleet to Australia. I’d love to know about the rest of her family as those places and now a marriage by licence seem to indicate some form of wealth...........or were those places not always as ‘nice’ as Phil Spencer tells me now on TV? Lol

[Phoenix]

St Pauls Covent Garden..... have you ever seen My Fair Lady, with Eliza selling her flowers?
Westminster Abbey was jostled by slum tenements.

You also find that being born into a comfortable lifestyle is no guarantee of its continuance. Most people would rent their homes and premises. The death of a father, or a fire which destroys a business could bring a family right down. If the networks were in place, they might recover, but if the man had no head for business, or drank the profits, everything could collapse.

[HarrysMum]

True.........and I wonder why Thomas/Howard used two names. Seems at first thought he was hiding something, but you’d think the minister would have noticed. Typical of my lot. Always hiding something.........lol

[Phoenix]

England, Boyd's Marriage Indexes, 1538-1850

William Hailock
Marriage year 1720
Spouse's first name(s) Dorothy
Spouse's last name Howard
Place Over
County Cambridgeshire

These look like Howard's parents. He was bp 1736 at West Wratting s/o Wlliam and Dorothy

[Kit]

Originally Posted by HarrysMum

One record has Westminster in London, another in Middlesex. I never know the difference.

To be honest, I'm not sure the up-overs do either. I know Kate gave an explanation but I'm not sure the public all knew. Or they are like me and I have only just started called Myer Myer, rather than the Grace Bros they were when I was a child. I'd still call it Grace Bros if I didn't have children and have to explain why the sign doesn't match what I call it.

Originally Posted by HarrysMum

True.........and I wonder why Thomas/Howard used two names. Seems at first thought he was hiding something, but you’d think the minister would have noticed. Typical of my lot. Always hiding something.........lol

Maybe Howard is the middle name.

[HarrysMum]

True Toni......lol
Phoenix, are those records from FMP?
I haven’t renewed my Ancestry so might go there for a while if they might help.

[Merry]

If you google:

Haylock "West Wratting"

you get lots of interesting stuff.

Also, it seems there is a Grade II listed house which is supposed to be called Haylocks in West Wratting. When I looked at Google street view I could only see something appropriate called 'The Old Hall' (61 High St) roughly in the spot shown on the map on the British listed buildings website. (might well not be the right place though!)

[Phoenix]

Originally Posted by HarrysMum

True Toni......lol
Phoenix, are those records from FMP?
I haven’t renewed my Ancestry so might go there for a while if they might help.

Yes, but it's transcripts only, no images. There are a lot of PCC wills on Ancestry, but for a later date. Various lawsuits on TNA's Discovery, but that's indexes only. Cambridge wills indexes may be on FMP, I can't remember, but know I've seen them somewhere.