On Fri, 14 Sep 2007 17:47:12 +0100 john lewis <[email protected]> wrote: > Is he the 31 year old shoemaker born Kingsclere living in St. Mary > Bourne in 1861 with wife Selina age 26 and children Joseph age 3 & > James age1, all born St. Mary Bourne ??? > > (more children given in 1871 Census) > > FreeBMD doesn't seem to have the marriage and there is no IGI batch > for St. Mary Bourne to let me search for any Selinas. Further checking found this entry on FreeBMD: Marriages Mar 1856: ROLFE Charles & ? ?, Whitchurch 6a 269 and the IGI gave me: SELINA WEBB, Female, Father: SAMUEL WEBB, Spouse: CHARLES ROLFE Marriage: 24 JAN 1856 Whitchurch, Hampshire, England Husband Age at Marriage: 28, Wife Age at Marriage: 21 Hants Bap index confirmed Selina was baptised on 21 Jun 1835 to Samuel & Mary Ann Webb IGI again gave me: SAMUEL WEBB & MARY ANN GLASS, Marriage: 23 JUL 1827 Saint Giles, Reading, Berks with the 1851 Census giving Samuel a birth place of Laverstoke and Mary Ann in Reading. and BTs for Laverstoke gave me James & Elizabeth Webb baptising: James ca 1780 Charles ca 1782 Harrey ca 1785 Harriet ca 1789 George ca 1790 John ca 1791 Sarah ca 1791 Phebe ca 1793 Robert ca 1797 William 1799 Samuel ca 1806 (22 Dec 1806) finally a member submitted IGI entry gave me: James Webb & Elizabeth Gilbert, Marriage: 05 APR 1779, Of Frefolk, , Hampshire so looks like yet another Webb family to add to the Kingsclere/Tadley ones. -- John Lewis Debian (Sid) with the GeneWeb genealogy package