Margaret Abbey .... what do you think?

[Mark Dudley]

I have an IGI marriage for Benjamin Todd to Margaret Abbey on 24/11/1831 in Stillingfleet, Yorkshire. Subsequent census records show her as born in Stillingsfleet, but i can't find an IGI record under any of the usual spellings for Abbey - Ebby etc.

Can anybody else find anything?

[Little Nell]

Well now. She might have been born Stillingsfleet but baptised elsewhere, or have been born as Margaret something else. Maybe she had a stepfather whose name she adopted or perhaps she was married before.

Off to take a look.

[Mark Dudley]

Thanks Nell!
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[Little Nell]

Can only find a baptism for
IGI
MARGARET ABBY Birth: 25 DEC 1801 Christening: 05 FEB 1802 Wetwang With Fimber, Yorkshire, England
Parents: Father: FRANCIS ABBY Mother: ANN
Batch No.: C109122


No idea if Wetwang is anywhere near Stillingfleet!

Have you looked on Freereg?

[KiteRunner]

Mark, is it possible she was a widow and so Abbey wasn't her original surname?

[Mark Dudley]

I haven't looked on FreeReg - but Wetwang Wotsit is only 28 miles away from Stillingfleet, so it may be a possible ...


Thanks Nell!

[Mark Dudley]

There is a birth for that Margaret on 25th December, so I want it to be her!

[Mark Dudley]

Possible Kate! But surely impossible to trace if that is the case ....

[Merry Monty Montgomery]

Subsequent census records

Save me the lookups and tell me how old she was when she married please!

[Mark Dudley]

About 26 Merry. Censuses (censi) says she was born 1805

[KiteRunner]

Mark, if you can get somebody to do a lookup of the marriage entry then it will probably tell you if she was a widow or not. Well, hopefully. Also it will tell you the witnesses' names.

[Merry Monty Montgomery]

The only Margaret I can see bap there in abt 1805 was Margaret Goodall, but I can't see any marriage for her. :(

[Mark Dudley]

The marriage is
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[Merry Monty Montgomery]

The marriage is
M105571 1813 - 1837 0918429 Film 6910695

Erm.....Yes??!!