Can anyone help with John's suggestion. Mary Ann and James Boxall were married at Boxgrove Parish Church 21 July 1884. Hopefully, Alan 10469 -------------------------------------------------- From: "John Cain" <cainjo1@postmaster.co.uk> Sent: Wednesday, April 30, 2008 11:03 AM To: "Alan" <alaninspain@msn.com> Cc: <SFHG-L@rootsweb.com> Subject: Re: [SFHG] Fw: Mary Ann Dyer > Alan: > Sorry for delay in replying to your message but my e-mail provider has > been out for some days and then I had to clear about 200 SPAM messages. > Your information about Mary Ann Dyer being a widow at marriage and being > born Mary Ann Sample daughter of Paul Sample confuses things. > It puts out of the picture the 2 Mary A Dyer cooks (Clifton 1881 and > Weybridge 1871) as both are listed as unmarried. > I can find no Paul Sample listed in England or Scotland censuses 1841 to > 1861. The only likely Mary Ann Sample listed was born in Berwickshire at > about the right time but married a Nakepeace and died soon after. > I can find no English marriage of a Mary Sample to a Dyer. I cannot access > marriage indexes for Scotland. > Could she possibly have been married 3 times in all? > The only thing I can suggest is that if she was married in church you > might find more information from when the Banns were issued. > Maybe an SFHG member in the Chichester area could check this out for you > if you > put detail of the marriage date and church on the list. > Regards, > John Cain 10370 >