resending, as previous attempt seems to have failed -----Original Message----- From: Richard Teagle Sent: 03 August 2005 10:27 To: 'ENG-GLO-HAWKESBURY-L@rootsweb.com' Subject: RE: [HWK] TEAGLE & MILSOM Carole These are the details you wanted of the marriage for Alice TEAGLE and Isaac MILSOM. This was taken from the Marriage Register for Fishponds St Mary, kept at Bristol Record Office: Isaac Septimus MILSOM, 29, bachelor, labourer, abode: Sopworth, Wilts; father: William MILSOM, farmer; and Alice Matilda TEAGLE, 20, spinster, abode Fishponds; father: Alfred TEAGLE, labourer; married September 10th 1887, Fishponds St Mary. In presence of: Elizabeth Mary BRYANT and Alfred TEAGLE (mark of). (Eliz Mary BRYANT was Alice TEAGLE's sister, who had married George BRYANT) So Isaac would be son of William MILSOM and Mary Ann BOULTON. My theory about half-sisters now looks probable to explain Alice TEAGLE being niece of Robert and Elizabeth MILSOM :- The IGI (uncorroborated - individual submission) has a christening of Elizabeth HARDING, 8 July 1832, in Publow (near Keynsham), Som, daughter of Mary HARDING. If this is the Mary Ann HARDING who then married Benjamin MATTHEWS in Publow in 1835, and had daughter Elizabeth MATTHEWS about 1837 Keynsham (who became the wife of Robert MILSOM of Sopworth), then Elizabeth HARDING and Elizabeth MATTHEWS would be half sisters. Elizabeth HARDING could have been known as Sarah to distinguish her from her sister. That would explain why Alfred TEAGLE's wife is known as Sarah on the censuses (and Sarah, formerly HARDING on daughter Alice's birth certificate that Kaye has), but is formally shown as Elizabeth HARDING in the marriage register for St Mary's Bitton (near Keynsham) when she married Alfred TEAGLE in 1856. Alice TEAGLE would then be niece to Robert MILSOM's wife Elizabeth, explaining the 1881 Sopworth census entry. So it looks as though when Alice TEAGLE married Isaac MILSOM, she didn't exactly marry her cousin, she married her Aunt's husband's nephew ! Richard -----Original Message----- From: ANTHONY SHARP [mailto:sharpafc@btinternet.com] Sent: 01 August 2005 22:15 To: ENG-GLO-HAWKESBURY-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [HWK] TEAGLE & MILSOM Hi Richard & All This looks like Elizabeth MATTHEWS, soon to become Mrs Robert MILSOM. I couldn't find her father Benjamin though. Or Sarah HARDING 1851 census Hanham 1944 0138015 Stone Hill Farm POTTER Jabez Webb HD M 39 Farmer 200 Acres, Emp 10L GLS Siston POTTER Mary WI M 34 - SOM Walcot POTTER James C. SO - 5 - GLS Bitton POTTER George W. SO - 2 - GLS Bitton MATTHEWS Elizabeth SV U 16 House Servant SOM Keynsham You wrote "I have the marriage entry for Alice TEAGLE and Isaac MILSOM, and he was definitely the son of William MILSOM" Could you let me know the details please. Thanks Carole -