Help finding a marriage please

[Merry]

It's unlikely it's her really

Having said that, I just remembered that John Morewood, Mary's second husband had some connection with Sussex. I looked again at his Oxford alumni entry and he was a son of John Morewood of Westbourn in Sussex. Westbourn is about 5 miles from Compton and then I found this will which suggests a link directly to Compton!


Will of Reverend John Morewood, Clerk of Compton , Sussex
Date:
18 December 1771
Held by:
The National Archives, Kew
Legal status:
Public Record(s)
Closure status:
Open Document, Open Description

Mary Gildart's father-in-law perhaps? Will read it now....

[Merry]

Originally Posted by Phoenix

Look on Family Search, choose the Sussex Parish Register reference, and click on the icon that looks like a sheet of paper.

Thanks Phoenix.

The sig is similar - the couple were married by Mary's future father-in-law, if it is her. Oooh, why can't it say she was a widow?!

[Phoenix]

Of course, this may simply demonstrate that the Scammell and Morewood families knew each other and liked calling their daughters Ann.

Edward could well have had a brother or cousin who married Mary.

[Merry]

In the will, Thomas Scammell's father-in-law is Peter Banks, so we can count out Miss Banks!

[Phoenix]

Well, you didn't want it to be easy, did you!

[Merry]

Not too easy, but preferably not impossible!

[kiterunner]

Wait - Thomas Scammell? Or should that be Edward?

[Merry]

We have no internet today and doing searches and using this site om my phone isn't easy. Whatever the name was when either you or Phoenix first mentioned the C place in Sussex is the name I meant.

[Merry]

Yes, it should be Edward.

[Phoenix]

What happened to the Ordnance Yard in Nova Scotia?

Is it possible that Mary's first marriage took place abroad?