On 02/08/13 08:20, Steven Gibbs wrote: > The IGI suggests that Harriet was Harriet Scorey, and that a Joseph Mondey > married Alicia Roberts at St Mary, Southampton. Without seeing the > originals, it's difficult to be sure what's going on. Indeed. Something mentioned in the register, but not in the IGI, is that Alicia Roberts was described as a widow. The marriage was witnessed by Thomas Mondey, Harriet Mondey and James Beavis. So it's pretty certain that it's the right marriage. > Since there was an > Alicia Scorey from Fawley, I'm a bit stuck without finding a marriage to a > Roberts (or an elimination of that Alicia Roberts). There was also an Alicia Saunders, also baptised in 1801, a few miles away in Eling, but I think we can rule her out. Alicia Saunders married Benjamin Kingston in 1826, was widowed, and then married Paul Phipps in 1830. However there was an Alicia Elton baptised in Nov 1806 in Millbrook who seems to vanish, and Millbrook is very close to Southampton where Alicia Roberts was "of this parish". However it seems a little unlikely (but not impossible) that Alicia should be on a her second marriage in Jul 1828, if she were only aged 21. In any case, Alicia Monday's date of birth is variously calculated as 1801-6 (from the 1841 census), 1802-3 (1851 census), 1795-6 (1861 census), 1800-1 (burial) and 1803-4 (GRO death index). A birth sometime around 1800-3 seems most likely. The only other Alicia born in that time period in the HGS baptism index is an Alicia Haiter, baptised in Christchurch, and buried there a month later. So by a process of elimination, Alicia Scorey seems pretty likely. Coupled to that, Harriet Munday is Alicia Scorey's sister, which must bump the odds up a bit further, especially as we know Alicia Munday was described as Thomas Munday's sister. (That said, I'm now reconsidering my opinion that Thomas and Joseph were not brothers. I suspect they were, and that Joseph's baptism is missing.) But whilst it's quite fun to persue this sort of convoluted reasoning, it doesn't leave me in confidence I have the right set of parents of Alicia. Richard