Is it possible to get M arriges or Deaths from the Parish or Poor Law Union, Uxbridge St. Michael. I have just been searching their site but, because I have no idea which church JAMES WOODMAN and his bride OLIVE ?? were married in, so I cannot find her maiden name. It would have to be about the time of 1818 onwards because their first child was baptised 23/5/1819 at St Marys/Margarets, Harmondsworth, which I have recently been told, do not do weddings. Only batisms and burials. Also, would the Parish and Poor Law Union have their own burial grounds and registers? I have found the baptisms of all their 3 children and their deaths in 1819, 1827.1825 . James died 1825 aged 29 years and Olive died 1828 aged about 35 years.. Their only son HENRY survived and later married. I also wonder if I could find what caused all those tragic deaths. I would appreciate any help about the above. With many thanks especially to those who have offered information already. Kind regards. April. New Forest

On 28/04/2014 10:37, April wrote: > Is it possible to get M arriges or Deaths from the Parish or Poor Law > Union, Uxbridge St. Michael. I have just been searching their site but, > because I have no idea which church JAMES WOODMAN and his bride OLIVE > ?? were married in, so I cannot find her maiden name. It would have to > be about the time of 1818 onwards because their first child was baptised > 23/5/1819 at St Marys/Margarets, Harmondsworth, which I have recently > been told, do not do weddings. Only batisms and burials. > > Also, would the Parish and Poor Law Union have their own burial grounds > and registers? Think of the Poor Law Unions in terms of today's Benefits Agency. Parishes did have their own registers for baptisms, marriages and burials, not births or deaths though, although many London parishes did add dates of birth to baptisms. Churches did have their own graveyards but these were getting full and cemeteries were opened from the latter half of the 1800s. More rural areas would have been able to keep their graveyards open for longer. Ancestry's idea of London seems to be somewhat elastic. Have you tried their parish marriages and burials on the off chance? -- Charani (UK) OPC for Walton, Ashcott, Shapwick, Greinton and Clutton, SOM http://wsom-opc.org.uk