​ First thought - allowing for local accents -was Camblesforth Nr Selby. Jean On 28 January 2015 at 00:46, Bill Webster via <[email protected]> wrote: > Recent posts mentioning Selby have prompted me to reprise a query I put > here > a year ago, which many tried to help with, thank you, including the Selby > FHS. It concerned this entry in the Hull Packet & Advertiser of 13 Dec > 1808. > > MARRIAGES > On Tuesday last, at Thornton, by the Reverend Mr Mackerith, Mr. CLARK, of > Castlethorp, near Selby, to Miss WEBSTER, daughter of the late Reverend > Robert Webster, Rector of Thorpebasset, and Curate of the Holy Trinity > Church at this place (Hull). (My capitals and brackets.) > > I do not know these areas at all. But I have just done a search at the OS > Getamap site for "Castlethorp" and one of two options is for a village and > farm named Castlethorpe, near SCAWBY, just west outside of Brigg in North > Lincolnshire. > > Does anyone think it may have been possible for the Hull Packet compiler of > local news to have mistaken Scawby for Selby, Selby being much the better > known? > > The Hull newspaper also could have been rehashing an entry in another paper > from closer to Thornton (Dale) where the marriage took place, but I have > not > found such other newspaper entry. Such other paper may not have known its > Selby from its Scawby. > > Clark is such a difficult name to research because there are just so many > hits. But I will have to try to find an association of the name Clark with > Castlethorpe in N Lincs. And I have no idea why this couple married in the > north of the Vale of Pickering. The bride was aged about 31 having been > born in Hull in 1777. Perhaps by 1808 she was employed and therefore lived > near Thornton. > > Bill Webster > New South Wales > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >