Alan, Thank you for this. Twenty years seems a long time to take to make up your mind!!! Gordon Smith (8479) ----- Original Message ----- From: "alan" <alan@stoner.org.uk> To: "Gordon Smith" <sativushouse@yahoo.co.uk> Cc: <SFHG-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, April 17, 2008 1:23 PM Subject: Re: [SFHG] Harman >I have two examples of delayed marriages. And one is a Miles! > > Elizabeth Rhoda Nicholls was born in 1872. In 1890 as Rhoda Elizabeth > Nicholls she married James Henry Stoner and in 1918 as Elizabeth R Stoner > married William Miles. The second m/c says widowed but that James Henry's > death has not been found in the indexes or on the CWGC site, before or > after. > > Four Stoner births occurred 1904-1912, two with Miles as a second forename > and two others with 'M'. The last birth has mother's maiden name Nicholls, > as does one certificate. The others have not been seen. > > The second example has births from 1930-1955 and the marriage not until > 1980. The husband had married in Malta and then separated from his first > wife. > > Alan > > > Gordon Smith wrote: >> Debbie, >> >> Thank you for this. You may well be right - the coincidence of "Miles" as >> a second Christian name is very strong! I realise that IGI is very >> unreliable but it is at least a starting-point! >> >> Thank you also for the NZ contact. >> >> Gordon Smith (8479) >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Deborah Montgomerie" <ifm@whidbey.net> >> To: "'Gordon Smith'" <sativushouse@yahoo.co.uk>; <SFHG-L@rootsweb.com> >> Sent: Wednesday, April 16, 2008 8:54 PM >> Subject: RE: [SFHG] Harman >> >> >> >>> Hi Gordon, >>> >>> I took a look for you and I see that both records in the IGI were put >>> there >>> by a member of the LDS church. Any time you see that it means that the >>> source could be unreliable. The info did not come from a parish >>> register. >>> Members of the LDS church are encouraged to give family members names as >>> part of sealings for the dead. The info could have come from a family >>> bible >>> or be just family hearsay and you may be relying on people's memories. >>> >>> Perhaps the record that Jackie found is the correct one and the couple >>> didn't get married until much later on. It does sound as if Kate/Kitty >>> Miles was the mother of John but perhaps John and Kate were not married >>> when >>> he was born. 20 years before deciding to get married was not unheard of >>> :-) >>> >>> Debbie >>> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: sfhg-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:sfhg-bounces@rootsweb.com] On >>> Behalf >>> Of Gordon Smith >>> Sent: Wednesday, April 16, 2008 2:44 AM >>> To: SFHG-L@rootsweb.com >>> Subject: [SFHG] Harman >>> >>> To the list: >>> >>> I would be grateful for help and/or advice. My 3Ggrandfather, John Miles >>> Harman (born about 1767), is said (by IGI) to be the son of John Harman >>> and >>> Kate Miles, and indeed IGI also shows the elder John Harman as the >>> spouse of >>> Kate Miles. However, neither familysearch nor SMI has a marriage between >>> a >>> John Harman and a Kate Miles; IGI shows marriages with an Abigail Gunn >>> or a >>> Rose Mary Moore at the appropriate time but the use of "Miles" as a >>> second >>> Christian name is strong evidence that John Miles Harman was indeed the >>> son >>> of Kate Miles. I would be grateful for suggestions as to how I can solve >>> this. >>> >>> Gordon Smith (8479) >>> >>> ------------------------------- >>> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >>> SFHG-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes >>> in >>> the subject and the body of the message >>> >>> >>> >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> SFHG-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes >> in the subject and the body of the message >> >> >> >> > >