Peter wrote: not a lot of information to go on. > > My immediate reaction is "Do you have the right Richard Upton?" Assumed > birth in 1794 and married in 1836. That would make his age 42, which is > very > late to be marrying. I had a similar situation in Somerset with my 3G grandfather. He was born in 1758 and married in 1804. After years of research I stumbled on an Index of Strays, which led me to discovere he had married earlier a long way from his home village and had spent 10 years at sea before returning to his home village where he married my 3G grandmother, his first wife having died while he was at sea. So consider an earlier marriage too. Bev

Thanks Bev. I think that is quite likely. I have only just started researching this line of the family and it is certainly not something I had ruled out. Thanks again, Jan > Peter wrote: > > > not a lot of information to go on. > >> My immediate reaction is "Do you have the right Richard Upton?" Assumed >> birth in 1794 and married in 1836. That would make his age 42, which is >> very >> late to be marrying. >> > > I had a similar situation in Somerset with my 3G grandfather. He was born in > 1758 and married in 1804. After years of research I stumbled on an Index of > Strays, which led me to discovere he had married earlier a long way from his > home village and had spent 10 years at sea before returning to his home > village where he married my 3G grandmother, his first wife having died while > he was at sea. > > So consider an earlier marriage too. > > Bev > > > > > The List Guidelines > > http://bedfordrootsweb.blogspot.com/ > > The Bedfordshire Surnames List > > http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~hughw/bedford.html > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > >