On Mon, 27 Dec 2010 12:14:54 -0000, Josephine Jeremiah <jojeremiah@dsl.pipex.com> wrote: > Bachlelor, Robert Purnell WALL, and spinster, Emma HOBBS, were married on > 28th. March 1826 at the church of St. James, Mangotsfield , GLS. The > groom> was of Stroudwater, GLS, while the bride was of the parish of > Mangotsfield. The marriage took place by licence and by the consent of > Aquella H. > It looks like Aquella (sic) was Aquila HOBBS, the grandmother of Emma. > The private baptism on 1st. March 1809 of Emma HOBBS, the daughter of > James and Sophia HOBBS, was noted in the Stapleton register. It was also > noted that Emma was base-born on 14th. February and the mother's surname > was LEWIS. I was wrong about Aquella (sic) HOBBS being the grandmother of Emma HOBBS, who married Robert Purnell WALL in 1826. I thought she was the grandmother because I could find the baptism of only one likely Emma in Stapleton, where Henry and Aquila HOBBS had already had children baptized. Further investigation has shown that the HOBBS family had later children baptized at Kingsood and that Aquila HOBBS (nee FISHER) was the mother of Emma. Emma HOBBS, daughter of Henry and Aquila HOBBS of Stapleton, Glos., was born on 21st. December 1805 and baptized on 22nd. June 1806 at Whitfield Chapel (Congregational), Kingswood. -- Josephine Jeremiah www.ianandjo.dsl.pipex.com