From: "Eric Millward" <bruckshaw1@tiscali.co.uk> > Is anyone researching BANCROFT in Hazel Grove (or Bramhall) please? > > I am partiuclarly interested in John BANCROFT b c 1816 who married > twice (Hannah and Elizabeth) but both marriages have eluded me so far. I > think Hannah died in 1844. My "guess" is that Hannah was BOWDEN and > Elizabeth was DRINKWATER. > > Thanks, > > Eric Millward> Further to my earlier reply, Cheshire BMD has a HANNAH BOWDEN who married JOSEPH BANCROFT (not John) at Stockport in a civil marriage (register office, presumably) in 1850. FreeBMD shows this in the final quarter of 1850. Do you think perhaps you could have become slightly confused? -- Roy Stockdill Genealogical researcher, writer & lecturer Famous family trees blog: http://blog.findmypast.co.uk/tag/roy-stockdill/ "There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about." OSCAR WILDE