Hi Barbara & Debbie The only census Martha comes up maried is in the workhouse in 1881 where her birth location is given as Reading. Census 1841 has a Martha aged 6 living in Whitley Street, St Giles, Reading dau of Thomas & Maria and a baptism for that is transcribed on IGI as a Martha Rose Major bpt 11 Jun 1837 St Giles, Reading, possibly that same Martha appears in 1861 Basing. 1901 has her baseborn dau Ida Jessie Holley (Major) working as a nurse in Prescot Union Workhouse and Nurses Home, Whiston, Lancashire 1891 son Sydney Leonard is a farm servant aged 13 is Stratfield Saye in 1901 he is lodging with his eventual wife Jane Eliza Wilson (nee Nash) at 30 Gas House Road, Basingstoke Bob Genealogy Web Database http://www.bobhutchins.me.uk Bob recommends Linux Ubuntu 9.04 On Wed, 2009-09-09 at 07:35 +0100, Barbara Mallyon wrote: > Hello Debbie, > > Does this information help, > for the marriage of Martha MAJOR to Edward HOLLEY > > Banns read 20th, 27th April & 4th May 1873 St. Mary's Church > Kingsclere > Married 18 May 1873 Edward age 35 bachelor, labourer and Martha age > 36 spinster > Domestic Servant both of Kingsclere. > witnesses: John & Fanny KEWELL > > That is the only information I have on Martha MAJOR. > > Kind regards > > Barbara Lewis Mallyon > Basingstoke, Hants. UK > BarbaraMallyon@lewmal.co.uk > List Admin > >

On Wed, 09 Sep 2009 09:05:16 +0100 Bob Hutchins <bob@bobhutchins.me.uk> wrote: > 1891 son Sydney Leonard is a farm servant aged 13 is Stratfield Saye > in 1901 he is lodging with his eventual wife Jane Eliza Wilson (nee > Nash) at 30 Gas House Road, Basingstoke The update to "Kingsclere Families" I did yesterday includes Jane Eliza's Overton family back to Robert & Mary who married ca1745 and had two children baptised in Overton, Philip in 1752 and John in 1759. A Robert Nash was buried at Overton on 13 Mar 1771, several Marys were buried there Jan 1759 onwards (all with no ages to give any clues). Robert & Mary's marriage isn't in the Hants Marr Index but IGI has this:- ROBERT NASH & MARY SIMMESS, Marriage: 12 JUN 1746, Pensioners Army Hospital, Chelsea but is probably just a coincidence it was at right time. The Nash surname goes back quite a bit further in Overton, there is an Alce Nashe buried in 1634 for example -- John Lewis Debian & the GeneWeb genealogical data server