This one has been on the back burner for a year or two, but continues to bug me...
I thought I would have a reasonably straightforward trail to follow once I found one of my twigs supposedly marrying a baronet. However, it's a brick wall as I can't find a Skeffington baronet who fits the date below. (From what I can remember from digging around at the time, I think I found this baronetcy dying out before this supposed 1817 marriage, circa 1815.) The only reference I have to him and this mystery marriage is from a brief notice in the Bury and Norwich Post, issue number 1821, published on Wednesday 1st May, 1817 which I came across when researching the Champain family. I can't find any other evidence of this marriage.
At St Mary-le-Bone Church, Sir Wm Skeffington, Bart to the beautiful and accomplished Miss Champain, eldest daughter of John Champain, Esq of Glocester-place, New-road. (All places mentioned are in London.)
From my research, John Champain's eldest daughter was Ann Champain, born 11 Aug 1793, probably in India as John Champain married his wife Margery Mackintosh in Calcutta in October 1788 and served in the Bengal Civil Service in the 1790s. She was the 4th of his nine children (6 sons, 3 daughters). I have the marriage details for the other two daughters.
The mystery deepens as Ann Champain died a spinster in Paris in 1870.
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So -
1. did this marriage ever take place?
2. If so, what is the name of the beautiful and accomplished Miss Champain and who is William Skeffington?
3. Any suggestions for finding out more from French records about Ann Champain in Paris? I haven't found any records of her in English censuses so wonder if she had lived there for a good while before her death.
Thanks,
Christine
I thought I would have a reasonably straightforward trail to follow once I found one of my twigs supposedly marrying a baronet. However, it's a brick wall as I can't find a Skeffington baronet who fits the date below. (From what I can remember from digging around at the time, I think I found this baronetcy dying out before this supposed 1817 marriage, circa 1815.) The only reference I have to him and this mystery marriage is from a brief notice in the Bury and Norwich Post, issue number 1821, published on Wednesday 1st May, 1817 which I came across when researching the Champain family. I can't find any other evidence of this marriage.
At St Mary-le-Bone Church, Sir Wm Skeffington, Bart to the beautiful and accomplished Miss Champain, eldest daughter of John Champain, Esq of Glocester-place, New-road. (All places mentioned are in London.)
From my research, John Champain's eldest daughter was Ann Champain, born 11 Aug 1793, probably in India as John Champain married his wife Margery Mackintosh in Calcutta in October 1788 and served in the Bengal Civil Service in the 1790s. She was the 4th of his nine children (6 sons, 3 daughters). I have the marriage details for the other two daughters.
The mystery deepens as Ann Champain died a spinster in Paris in 1870.
and
So -
1. did this marriage ever take place?
2. If so, what is the name of the beautiful and accomplished Miss Champain and who is William Skeffington?
3. Any suggestions for finding out more from French records about Ann Champain in Paris? I haven't found any records of her in English censuses so wonder if she had lived there for a good while before her death.
Thanks,
Christine
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