I wonder if anyone can help me with finding the birthplace and birth-date of Mary BARNARD who married Joshua CLARKE in 1755 in Ramsey. Her husband was born about 1733 in Ramsey. I've tried all the more obvious places, including the Ramsey parish register for baptisms in the period 1645-1802. If the register is complete, Mary must have come from elsewhere. Best regards, Carole Biggam ==================== Dr C P Biggam, FSA Dept of English Language University of Glasgow ====================
Hi Carole, There is always the chance that she married before, and BARNARD was her married name. This has happened with a family I was researching. I didn't even think to look for a former marriage at first, because she only would have been about twenty-one at the time of her second marriage, but she had been married for a short time previously before being widowed. So it might be worth looking for any male BARNARD marriages to a Mary, then comparing these names to death registers between then and the time of Mary's marriage to Joshua. Or, she was from a completely different place :-) It's worth a shot, though. Good luck. Kristy > From: c.p.biggam@btinternet.com > To: ESSEX-UK@rootsweb.com > Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2008 22:57:01 +0100 > CC: c.p.biggam@btinternet.com > Subject: [Ess] Mary BARNARD > > I wonder if anyone can help me with finding the birthplace and birth-date of Mary BARNARD who married Joshua CLARKE in 1755 in Ramsey. Her husband was born about 1733 in Ramsey. I've tried all the more obvious places, including the Ramsey parish register for baptisms in the period 1645-1802. If the register is complete, Mary must have come from elsewhere. > > Best regards, > > Carole Biggam > ==================== > Dr C P Biggam, FSA > Dept of English Language > University of Glasgow > ==================== > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Any problems, please contact the List Admin: Essex-UK-admin@rootsweb.com > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ESSEX-UK-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message _________________________________________________________________