I'm after some more help please?
I've hit yet another brick wall, I'm looking for the Birth/Baptism record of my GG Grandmother Mary Ann Loates (Loats or Lotes). I've at last found my GG Grandfathers Baptism record on the "Freereg" Site, many thanks to Berlin-Bob for that lead, but I can't find Marys on any site. I've tried all the main sites, the IGI Index , Genes Reunited and many others.
The Census records have her as born in St Andrew the Less in Cambridge around 1853 to 1859 but, her wedding certificate shows her age as 19 in 1872 i.e. 1853. I've ordered the most likely candidate from the GRO but that gives her father as Robert!!!!
Her wedding certificate gives her father as John Loats (Loates) and the only census record that would give a better idea, the 1861 census doesn't exist!
There is however, one possibility on the Parish Record Collection that fits both the Fathers name and the general address but, it would mean that she was 14 when she got married which, although not impossible seems a little far fetched and also, she lied about her age to the registrar and their first child was born in the April-June quarter of the following year (there may have been a shotgun involved!)
Has anybody out there got any ideas where I could look next?
David
I've hit yet another brick wall, I'm looking for the Birth/Baptism record of my GG Grandmother Mary Ann Loates (Loats or Lotes). I've at last found my GG Grandfathers Baptism record on the "Freereg" Site, many thanks to Berlin-Bob for that lead, but I can't find Marys on any site. I've tried all the main sites, the IGI Index , Genes Reunited and many others.
The Census records have her as born in St Andrew the Less in Cambridge around 1853 to 1859 but, her wedding certificate shows her age as 19 in 1872 i.e. 1853. I've ordered the most likely candidate from the GRO but that gives her father as Robert!!!!
Her wedding certificate gives her father as John Loats (Loates) and the only census record that would give a better idea, the 1861 census doesn't exist!
There is however, one possibility on the Parish Record Collection that fits both the Fathers name and the general address but, it would mean that she was 14 when she got married which, although not impossible seems a little far fetched and also, she lied about her age to the registrar and their first child was born in the April-June quarter of the following year (there may have been a shotgun involved!)
Has anybody out there got any ideas where I could look next?
David
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