> Hi Jenny I don't have a lot of information unfortunately. Her Husband was a Joseph Boardman from spitalfields london, and I have just found out that he remarried a Lydia Williams parish st saviour southwark in 1808. cicely?? died in 1803 and is buried at Bunhill Fields along with Joseph in 1817. Also Lydia is buried at Bunhill Fields in 1814. Cicely is also named as Grandmother on a Baptism for her granddaughter. But the marriage between Joseph and Elizabeth Culmore in 1762 at St Matthews Bethnal Green is the only marriage for a Joseph Boardman that I can find. As they appear to be non conformists maybe I have got it all wrong and there is a record out there somewhere for a Cicely, but I just cannot find it anywhere. Thanks for your interest. Sue > > If the marriage you have found was after the start of Civil > Registration, > July 1837, then what does the certificate give for the father of the > bride > Elizabeth? Does that match with what you know of your Cicely's > father? Or > have you not got the copy of the marriage? > > If you give the rest of us a few details about your Cicely such as > census > references etc., where you have found her, and when that marriage of > Elizabeth took place and where we might be able to help further in > some way. > > Regards > Jenny DeAngelis > Spain. > > <<> Hello could anyone tell me if a Cicely I have in my family tree > could >> possibly, hopefully pass for an Elizabeth? >> I have a record of the right year and place for a marriage as >> Elizabeth, >> but I know the wifes name was Cicely. >> Can't find any records for a Cicely at the time. Is this a possible >> chance please?>> > > > ************************************** > Send your List messages using **PLAIN TEXT** and always **TRIM > AWAY** superfluous old messages in replies. > > List Admin can be contacted at: Middlesex_County_UK-admin@rootsweb.com > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to MIDDLESEX_COUNTY_UK-request@rootsweb.com > with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and > the body of the message

Hi Sue, After Lord Hardwicke's marriage Act of 1753, which came into effect in 1754, everyone had to marry in a Church of England, regardless of their religious persuassion. The only exception to this rule were Jews and Quakers who were allowed to marry in their own synagogues and meeting houses. You say that the family appear to have been non conformists and perhaps when Cicely married Joseph Boardman they probably married, from the dates you give, sometime after this act was passed and would have been forced to marry in the CofE, if they married in England. Remember too that the IGI at familysearch is not an exhaustive resource, not all British parishes are included in the indexes there. It might be that they married in a parish which has not been put either onto the LMA records at the Ancestry site nor into the IGI online at familysearch. But there is still the possibility that Cicely was not the ladies first name and that she married under another name. Something I have just found on the Ancestry site and the LMA marriages and Banns 1754-1921 is a marriage for a Cicely Boardman to a Richard Horne at St. John Hackney in 1824 where she is shown as a minor and her father gave his consent to the marriage. One of the witnesses was a Joseph Boardman Jr. Could this be one of your Joseph Boardman's children marrying? I then found in the IGI the baptism of Cicely Boardman 6th Nov. 1803 St. Matthew Bethnal Green, born 9th Sept. 1803 father Joseph Boardman mother Martha. batch no. is C046983 which shows this to be an extracted record rather than a patron submission. Using that batch number, region as British isles, the fathers name as Joseph Boardman I found further baptisms for Joseph and Martha between 1801 and 1809, obviously at the same church because of using that batch number. These fall into the period that you believe Joseph Boardman's wife would have been Cicely. Could this mother be your Cicely under her proper name of Martha?? This is rather far fetched I know but might be something worth trying to puzzle out to see where it leads. Regards Jenny DeAngelis Spain. >>> I don't have a lot of information unfortunately. Her Husband was a > Joseph Boardman from spitalfields london, and I have just found out that > he remarried a Lydia Williams parish st saviour southwark in 1808. > cicely?? died in 1803 and is buried at Bunhill Fields along with Joseph > in 1817. Also Lydia is buried at Bunhill Fields in 1814. Cicely is also > named as Grandmother on a Baptism for her granddaughter. But the > marriage between Joseph and Elizabeth Culmore in 1762 at St Matthews > Bethnal Green is the only marriage for a Joseph Boardman that I can find. > As they appear to be non conformists maybe I have got it all wrong and > there is a record out there somewhere for a Cicely, but I just cannot > find it anywhere.<<