Hello Anne That is quite amazing. I had not even considered anything outside Sussex and Portsea is a long way off. I'm not sure whether there was a train service at that time.If your theory is correct then I suppose it was the nearest big city where they could have gone and been completely unknown. Thank you. Ron Anne Capewell wrote: > Hi Ron, > > IGI has the marriage 01/08/1836 St Mary's, Portsea, Hants. > http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/search/frameset_search.asp?PAGE=ancestorsearchresults.asp > Don't know why they should have gone to Hampshire unless their local > church wouldn't marry them as they had had a child out of wedlock? > > hth, > Anne > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2008 10:10:43 +0000 > > From: ron.cowell@virgin.net > > To: SUSSEX-PLUS-L@rootsweb.com > > Subject: [SXP] BENTLEY and STONE > > > > I am trying to find a record of the marriage of Stephen Bentley to his > > second wife Mary Ann Stone. Stephen's first wife died in Nov 1834 and > > Mary Ann's first child was baptised in May 1836. Stephen lived in > Poling > > and Mary Ann was born in Arundel although it is likely that her family > > had moved to Poling by the time of the marriage. I have not found it in > > the Poling or Arundel parish registers. Has anyone any thoughts as to > > where I could look next? > > > > Ron > > > > ------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > SUSSEX-PLUS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Sounds like? How many syllables? Guess and win prizes with Search > Charades! <http://www.searchcharades.com>

There is actually a bit of "history" about people from Poling slipping off to Portsmouth to get married in secret. I copied the following item out of the Poling Parish Registers back in 1999, just out of interest and thinking that it might come in useful some day! Feb 26 1737 "Nubent, ut dixerunt, Henricus Blaxton et Elizabetha Storey de Arundelio apud Portsmouth in comitatu Hantoniae Octavo die Octobris Anno 1735. Sed nubent realiter Henricus Blaxton et Elizabeth Storey in Ecclesia parochiali de Poling in comitatu Sussexi vicesimo sexto die Februarii Anno 1737 per me Johannem Storey Vicarius de poling praedita". My Latin isn't very good, but here is my very rough translation: Henry Blaxton and Elizabeth Storey of Arundel were married, so they say, at Portsmouth in the County of Hampshire on the Eighth day of October in the year 1735. But Henry Blaxton and Elizabeth Storey were actually married in the parish Church of Poling in the County of Sussex on the twenty sixth day of February in the year 1737 [1737/38] by me John Storey Vicar of Poling aforesaid. So, it looks as if it might be the Vicar's own daughter who claimed to have married Henry BLAXTON in Portsmouth and her Father didn't believe her and married/remarried her himself in his own Church, just to be quite sure! Best wishes Marion Woolgar Bognor Regis, West Sussex SFHG NO: 3323 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ron Cowell" <ron.cowell@virgin.net> To: "Anne Capewell" <alc_goytre@hotmail.com> Cc: <sussex-plus-l@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, February 15, 2008 2:56 PM Subject: Re: [SXP] BENTLEY and STONE Hello Anne That is quite amazing. I had not even considered anything outside Sussex and Portsea is a long way off. I'm not sure whether there was a train service at that time.If your theory is correct then I suppose it was the nearest big city where they could have gone and been completely unknown. Thank you. Ron Anne Capewell wrote: > Hi Ron, > > IGI has the marriage 01/08/1836 St Mary's, Portsea, Hants. > http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/search/frameset_search.asp?PAGE=ancestorsearchresults.asp > Don't know why they should have gone to Hampshire unless their local > church wouldn't marry them as they had had a child out of wedlock? > > hth, > Anne > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2008 10:10:43 +0000 > > From: ron.cowell@virgin.net > > To: SUSSEX-PLUS-L@rootsweb.com > > Subject: [SXP] BENTLEY and STONE > > > > I am trying to find a record of the marriage of Stephen Bentley to his > > second wife Mary Ann Stone. Stephen's first wife died in Nov 1834 and > > Mary Ann's first child was baptised in May 1836. Stephen lived in > Poling > > and Mary Ann was born in Arundel although it is likely that her family > > had moved to Poling by the time of the marriage. I have not found it in > > the Poling or Arundel parish registers. Has anyone any thoughts as to > > where I could look next? > > > > Ron > > > > ------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > SUSSEX-PLUS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Sounds like? How many syllables? Guess and win prizes with Search > Charades! <http://www.searchcharades.com> ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to SUSSEX-PLUS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message