Hello everyone, After several years break from Family History I'm trying to pick up the threads again and wondered if anyone could help me shed some light on a problem called Martina Brewer Morley. I have her marriage cert. (she was married to Nathaniel Fortescue Taylor on 21 Dec 1841 at St James Westminster) and have found her on every census in West Ham area, last one 1891 she was deaf, widowed and aged 66. But on each of these census she is reported as born Hilperton Wiltshire or in one case Hilperton Somerset. From the ages in the census it seems that she would have been born about 1825. On her marriage cert. it claims she was a minor but had parents permission. Please does anyone have access to birth info for that time and place. The plot thickens because all of her siblings were born in St Pancras, Bermondsey, and Lambeth, she is the only one to have been born outside of London, also she had a sister Montena Brewer Morley, born 1837 in Lambeth, at one time I thought she could have been one and the same but as each census has Hilperton as birth place, I have given up on that idea. Brewer as a middle name is used throughout my family so it could easily have been used for both ladies. I will be so grateful for any grain of help Sylvia

You might like to try the "Family Search International" web site click on "Family Search Catalogue" tab and enter place name (parish and county) and anything that has been filmed can be ordered in thru you local LDS Centre. These are filmes of Parish Registers and usually only contain christening data but occasionally the vicar would enter the birth date as well. If you cant get to FHC try the Family Search IGI search on same web site. Just enter name & surname and a list will appear for you to check out. Welcome back to the "genealogy fold" regards daphne guthrie of Papatoetoe New Zealand daphne.guthrie@xtra.co.nz Researching areas: Medway, Kent;Wiltshire;Hampshire:Dorset; Sussex;Essex & Norfolk England. Fyfe Scotland. names LAYZELL, HARDY;TRUEMAN;GUY;WILTSHIRE; MEXTED;PARSLOE;WILLIAMS;WILMSHURST ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sylvia Wilmot" <sylvia.wilmot@tesco.net> To: <ENG-WILTSHIRE@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, September 25, 2006 5:41 AM Subject: [ENG-WILTSHIRE] Hilperton > Hello everyone, > After several years break from Family History I'm trying to pick up > the threads again and wondered if anyone could help me shed some > light on a problem called Martina Brewer Morley. > I have her marriage cert. (she was married to Nathaniel Fortescue > Taylor on 21 Dec 1841 at St James Westminster) and have found her on > every census in West Ham area, last one 1891 she was deaf, widowed > and aged 66. > But on each of these census she is reported as born Hilperton > Wiltshire or in one case Hilperton Somerset. From the ages in the > census it seems that she would have been born about 1825. On her > marriage cert. it claims she was a minor but had parents permission. > Please does anyone have access to birth info for that time and place. > > The plot thickens because all of her siblings were born in St > Pancras, Bermondsey, and Lambeth, she is the only one to have been > born outside of London, also she had a sister Montena Brewer Morley, > born 1837 in Lambeth, at one time I thought she could have been one > and the same but as each census has Hilperton as birth place, I have > given up on that idea. > > Brewer as a middle name is used throughout my family so it could > easily have been used for both ladies. > I will be so grateful for any grain of help > Sylvia > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > ENG-WILTSHIRE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >