Hello all, A while ago I was given information that my 3x great grandparents, Thomas Pearce MORRIS and Harriet HENNICK? were married on 20th. August 1827 at Speen, Berkshire. Can anyone confirm the date and place of this marriage and also the surname of the bride, please? I haven't been able to make any headway with the surname HENNICK. Josephine -- Josephine Jeremiah www.ianandjo.dsl.pipex.com
checked the family trees on Ancestry - there are 2 with Harriet HENNICK one has Harriet HENNICK marrying Thomas Pearce MORRIS abt 1828 at Bedminster. The second has Harriet HENNICK marrying Robert DOWN abt 1828 at Bedminster Both have estimated year of birth as 1811. Looking at the data I do not think that either tree has been fully researched and there is no marriage date or parents for either. Wendy -----Original Message----- From: Josephine Jeremiah Sent: Wednesday, September 21, 2011 10:43 AM To: BERKSHIRE@rootsweb.com Subject: [BRK] MORRIS, marriage, Speen, Berkshire, 1827 Hello all, A while ago I was given information that my 3x great grandparents, Thomas Pearce MORRIS and Harriet HENNICK? were married on 20th. August 1827 at Speen, Berkshire. Can anyone confirm the date and place of this marriage and also the surname of the bride, please? I haven't been able to make any headway with the surname HENNICK. Josephine -- Josephine Jeremiah www.ianandjo.dsl.pipex.com ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to BERKSHIRE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message
On Wed, 21 Sep 2011 11:20:03 +0100, Wendy King <wendyking37@hotmail.com> wrote: > checked the family trees on Ancestry - there are 2 with Harriet HENNICK > one has Harriet HENNICK marrying Thomas Pearce MORRIS abt 1828 at > Bedminster. > The second has Harriet HENNICK marrying Robert DOWN abt 1828 at > Bedminster > Both have estimated year of birth as 1811. > Looking at the data I do not think that either tree has been fully > researched and there is no marriage date or parents for either. Hi Wendy, Thanks very much for your prompt response. Yes, those marriages are not correct. The appearance of Harriet HENNICK on these ancestry trees may have come from a rootsweb message I sent in 2009 to the Bristol_and_Somerset list asking for a check on the marriage of my 3x great-grandparents, Thomas Pearce MORRIS and Harriet HENNICK, on 20th. August 1827 at Speen, Berkshire. The second marriage you've found is of widower, Robert DOWN, and widow, Harriet Pearce MORRIS, who were married on 14th. June 1846 at St. John's Church, Bedminster. The groom's father was Robert DOWN but I don't have a record of the bride's father so I haven't been able to get any further with the HENNICK surname with this marriage. In 1861, widow, Harriet DOWN, 51, (no occupation) born in Berkshire, Newbury, was living at 58 Hotwell Road, Clifton. In 1871, widow Harriet DOWN, 63, was living at 1 Cumberland Place, Clifton. Her occupation was seamstress and her birthplace was recorded as Newbury, Berkshire. Josephine -- Josephine Jeremiah www.ianandjo.dsl.pipex.com
Josephine Speen is nowadays a suburb of Newbury. Have a look at Berks RO and Berks FHS to see what registers are available where and how. In Thatcham, another suburb of Newbury nowadays, is Henwick Lane. I have no idea of its origins - probably a few centuries old- but it could be a local placename which might turn up as a surname. Try Henwick as a surname variant. Jeff ----- Original Message ----- From: "Josephine Jeremiah" <jojeremiah@dsl.pipex.com> To: <BERKSHIRE@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, September 21, 2011 10:43 AM Subject: [BRK] MORRIS, marriage, Speen, Berkshire, 1827 > Hello all, > > A while ago I was given information that my 3x great grandparents, Thomas > Pearce MORRIS and Harriet HENNICK? were married on 20th. August 1827 at > Speen, Berkshire. > > Can anyone confirm the date and place of this marriage and also the > surname of the bride, please? > > I haven't been able to make any headway with the surname HENNICK. > > Josephine > > -- > Josephine Jeremiah > www.ianandjo.dsl.pipex.com >