Susannah Lewis (MFMM)

[ElizabethHerts]

Originally Posted by Sue from Southend

Is Hoddington possible then, Elizabeth? There's no mention in Genuki and when I googled it the only place that came up was nr Basingstoke....

I reckon they mean Honiton but wrote it incorrectly. Payhembury is a tiny village - just a few houses really and not far from Honiton. Gosh, this takes me back in time. I remember learning to ice-skate on the pond there!

If you look on Google maps on the sattelite view you can see just how small it is! The church is quite large for such a small village. It's on the north side of the village green - the triangle you can see.

http://genuki.cs.ncl.ac.uk/DEV/Payhembury/

[ElizabethHerts]

Sue, you could try the following contact: (from Genuki)

http://genuki.cs.ncl.ac.uk/DEV/Payhe...#ChurchRecords
Scroll down to Genealogy and click on the links:

Genealogy
The Online Parish Clerk scheme's representative for this parish is Margaret Lewis, who invites queries and lookup requests. (Resources: extensive database, plus 1901 census.)

It seems that Margaret Lewis will do look-ups. There can't be many Susannahs born in Payhembury in c. 1833!

[Sue from Southend]

Thanks for that Elizabeth - interesting that the contact is a Lewis!

[ElizabethHerts]

I'm doing an 1841 address search for Payhembury on FMP to see if she is still there .

It's really odd for me as I'm finding so many familiar surnames - as my parents were vets they knew the farming community so well and even in the 1950s some of them hadn't even been as far as Exeter. It's sort of pulling at my heartstrings. I was the youngest and my mum used to take me with her before I started school and in the holidays.

[Sue from Southend]

A real trip down memory lane(s) then!

Thanks for looking.

I'm just about to order some certificates - you've all shamed me into it....

[ElizabethHerts]

There are only 2 Susannas of the right age range in Payhembury in 1841:

Susanna Taylor
Susanna Bridle

I have found two marriages for Susanna Taylor to a Lewis in Shoreditch.
No marriages for Susanna Bridle to a Taylor.

I think the certificate route is the way to go - which you are already doing, Sue.

(I kept finding Dommets in Payhembury - our butcher in Honiton in the early 1950s was a Mr Dommet and our dog Vicky used to visit him every morning and he used to give her scraps!) *Goodness, I feel old!*

[kiterunner]

Originally Posted by Sue from Southend

there is in 1881 two sons named John which is odd but they are only 2 yrs apart and both born after the marriage.

The older one was registered as William John and the younger one as John Henry.

[kiterunner]

Originally Posted by ElizabethHerts

I have found two marriages for Susanna Taylor to a Lewis in Shoreditch.

The 1846 ones didn't marry each other - they're in the LMA records. Can't see the 1853 ones, though, so that's a possibility.

[ElizabethHerts]

Did you order the certificates, Sue, and if so have they arrived?

[Sue from Southend]

Yes to both questions Elizabeth! I didn't post on here tho' as we'd gone into the next week and I wasn't sure if it'd confuse things!
Both Susannah and William had been married before.
Susannah's maiden name was indeed Taylor (well done you!) Father, James Taylor a bricklayer.
I've found her in 1841 - http://search.ancestry.co.uk/cgi-bin...593&recoff=1+2

and this is probably her in 1851 with a married sister - http://search.ancestry.co.uk/cgi-bin...recoff=1+13+14

and widowed in 1861 with a son James - http://search.ancestry.co.uk/cgi-bin...116&recoff=1+2

So Susannah is almost sorted apart from her mother's maiden name.....

Thanks for your help