This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: osborneursula Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.britisles.england.dor.general/6081.3/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Hi I found the marriage for Joseph Cornick and Ruth Spencer. However, I believe this to have been wrongly recorded, and her name should have been recorded as Spicer. Successive Census returns show Ruth to have been born in Belchalwell, and there was a Ruth Spicer born 1805 to Robert Spicer, unsure where from, and Mary Robbings, of Belchalwell. I am descended from Emma Cornick who married Thomas Davis in 1860. Her brother Edmund married Sussanah Thomas in 1856. I do not know what became of Ann. Ruth Cornick lived until she was 90 and died after the 1891 Census which showed her to be living with several of her grandchildren. I can trace the Robbings family back to the 1730s, but as to Robert Spicer, I can take the family forward but no further back. I think the Dorset Online Parish Clerk site use mainly Bishop's Transcripts which stop in the early 1730s because of the 'Great Fire of Blandford' which burned anything prior to then. I think the only answer is to look in Dorchester Record Office. I think that Belchalwell Records may pose a problem all round as the church also had a fire. I have drawn a blank with George Cornick and Ann Baller, and the only record I can find which is around the right date shows a birth in Hooke, 9/2/1772 to Reuben and Catherine Cornick, however, I am not entirely sure. Hooke is not too far from Froome Vauchurch and Maiden Newton which are contiguous (one ends where the other begins). I hope this helps. My email is osborneursula@hotmail.co.uk, if you want to contact me. Kind Regards Ursula Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.