Hello all, We have on the website the marriage of Mary Lovelock to Richard Blacker or Blake on 27 October 1807 at Little Bedwyn. These details also appear on the LDS website, but whoever posted them there also gave Mary's date and place of birth as 1785 at Little Bedwyn. We have a declaration on the website that there were no Lovelock baptisms at Little Bedwyn. It has been suggested that Mary was the daughter of William Lovelock and Elizabeth Newman. If she was, she might fill that otherwise mysterious gap between William and Elizabeth's marriage in October 1784 and the baptism of their son Thomas in March 1788. Both that wedding and the baptism took place in Burbage, and so we might expect to find Mary's baptism there if she was indeed their daughter. The Burbage website has a comprehensive listing of baptisms and there is no Mary recorded in 1785, or indeed in any year around then. However, it has also been suggested that the baptism might have been recorded in the Bishop's Transcripts. Does anyone have a transcribed copy of the Burbage BTs from which they can confirm or deny the possibility? If not, is anyone visiting the Wiltshire Record Office in the forseeable future who would be willing to add this to their list of things to do? I have not been able to positively identify Mary in any census returns, but I have found a Mary Blake in both the 1841 and 1851 Censuses who seems a very good candidate. In 1851 this lady gave her age as 69, and place of birth as Burbage. The location is encouraging, but age 69 gives us a date of birth of 1782, or even 1781. That would make her an illegitimate daughter of Elizabeth at best, and most unlikely to have been baptised as a Lovelock. Needless to say, the Burbage records do not apparently include the baptism of a Mary Newman in 1781 or 1782. A Mary Blake died in 4Q 1854 in the Pewsey Registration District, which seems likely to be the one I found in 1851, but at that time ages at death were not recorded in the GRO Indexes. Can anyone help on this one? Regards Graham _________________________________________________________________ Windows LiveĀ Messenger has arrived. Click here to download it for free! http://imagine-msn.com/messenger/launch80/?locale=en-gb