Is this a bizarre coincidence???

[bev&kev]

I have 2 marriages:

From Tatsfield Parish Records:
William Burgess and Amy Southby, married 1st September 1806
Witnesses: Edward Scott and Elizabeth Lone

From Burstow Parish Records
William Burgess and Ann Southby, married 1st September 1808
Witnesses: Edward Scott and Elizabeth Scott

Edward Scott (of Burstow) had family connections in Tatsfield, which is about 13 miles from Burstow.

[Tom Tom]

Is there any way you can get copies of the entries to compare signatures?

[bev&kev]

They were both from transcriptions Tom.
I can understand 1806/8 being mistranscribed.
Scott/Lone is a bit more tricky, but how did they get from one parish to another??

[Phoenix]

Who did Edward Scott marry? Not a Miss Lone?!

I have some strange intermarriages. If these people were farmers, then they might be cousins marrying land or money. The coincidence of the anniversary is spooky, though. Do you have actual copies of the pages, to see whether the dates are two years apart, or if the event is recorded in two different churches? I've not seen that happen post 1753, but it certainly did in earlier periods.

[bev&kev]

*racks brains*
Without consulting very old notes, I am now fairly sure I saw the original of the Burstow marriage, but not the Tatsfield one.

Edward Scott married Elizabeth Lucken - not a million miles from the name Lone - but he married in 1793, so she should have been Scott in 1806.

[Little Nell]

Bizarre. I was going to say that maybe the transcriptions are of banns, which would explain the separate parishes, but you have the witnesses so these are marriages. All very odd.

[Little Nell]

Amey [sic] Southby's marriage is on the IGI.

This could be her baptism:
Amey Southby
Christening: 08 FEB 1789 Sevenoaks, Kent, England
Father: James Southby
Mother: Sarah
Source Information: Batch No.: C019151

[Little Nell]

No baptism for a likely Ann Southby.

[TrevorFranklin]

IGNORE:I have three occurances of double marriages in the early to mid 1800's in my tree.
It seems that a service was held in each partners village

Could this be yiur case?

[Did not look close enough to see the dates and slight first name change]

[Jessbowbag]

William Burgess marries Amy Southby
Witnesses: Edward Scott and Elizabeth Lone
amy pops her clogs


exactly two years later, he marries her sister Ann Southby
Witnesses: Edward Scott, who by this time has made an honest woman out of Elizabeth and she is now a Scott

bet its nothing like a easy as that

[Anne in Carlisle]

When I see something like this I always used to think there must be a connection - how could it possibly be otherwise? I now firstly think it must just be coincidence. It really is amazing how often coincidences happen!

The most bizarre (and very frequent) ones I see are in our local weekly paper which covers north Cumbria. I have reached the age when I look at the deaths before most other things :o and it frequently happens that two people with the same name are listed on the same day. Its quite spooky really - they are clearly different people with the same name who die within a day or so of each other.

Anne

[Little Nell]

Perhaps Jess is right and they may have chosen the same date deliberately. My grandmother married on the same date as her parents' had.

[bev&kev]

Thanks everyone.

I considered the possibility that first wife died and he married her sister, but on the same date??? Seems a bit ..............weird!! :D But obviously not impossible.

But realistically, I am sure this is the same marriage - but in two parishes - it's not as if they are neighbouring parishes either. Even if they had 2 services, one in each village, that were both recorded as marriages - would they have done it 2 years apart?

It's all very peculiar.

[Harrys mum]

Terri.....sounds plausable to me. I wouldn't worry about the same date. Maybe it was a holiday in that area or in his job, and had nothing to do with his first marriage.

I've got a stack of stranger things in my tree for second marriages. lol.

[Uncle John]

Another thought. Since they are both transcriptions, it's possible that one or both is actually the final reading of banns. I have a marriage where banns were read in Dundee and Dumbarton. The marriage took place in Dumbarton.