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I have been trying to find out what happened to my ggg grandmother Mary Anderton nee Lowe & decided to order her husband's 2nd marriage cert to check if he said he was widowed or not. The cert has arrived & I am now totally lost.
Edward & Mary married in Asgarby by Spilsby Lincs in 1831, they moved to Barton upon Humber & had 6 children, the last of whom, my gg grandmother Septiana was born December 1843. Edward & Mary are in Barton in 1841. In 1851, Edward is with a Mary Ann Anderton, who is considerably younger than him, there is no sign of his first wife & his surviving daughters are with them & a son John Edward age 3. It later transpires that he was born in Hull in 1848 baptised 1850 son of Mary Ann & a John William Anderton.
In 1861, Mary & her son John have left & are now living with William Towell in Ferriby Sluice (mistranscribed as Handerson), Edward is still in Barton & he now has a son Edward, & on his baptism, it says he is the son of Edward & Mary Ann. Edward dies in 1869, Mary Ann marries William Towell the following year & in 1871, both her sons are living with them.
The marriage cert was for a marriage in Hull in Oct 1851, the occupation & father for Edward are fine, although he gives his address as Albert St Withan, which doesn't appear to exist. He is listed as a widower. She is shown as Mary Ann AnderSon not AnderTon & her father is shown as William Mapplethorpe and she is also a widow, which is what I had expected.
The problem is that I can't find a marriage for Mary Ann to John Anderton, or a death for Edward's first wife. To make it worse, I've found a tree on Ancestry which lists Mary Ann Mapplethorpe as being the mother of John Edward & Edward Anderton, husband John, who died 1859
and who then goes on to marry William Towell, but no mention of her marriage to my ggg grandfather!
Help, I am VERY confused!!
Edward & Mary married in Asgarby by Spilsby Lincs in 1831, they moved to Barton upon Humber & had 6 children, the last of whom, my gg grandmother Septiana was born December 1843. Edward & Mary are in Barton in 1841. In 1851, Edward is with a Mary Ann Anderton, who is considerably younger than him, there is no sign of his first wife & his surviving daughters are with them & a son John Edward age 3. It later transpires that he was born in Hull in 1848 baptised 1850 son of Mary Ann & a John William Anderton.
In 1861, Mary & her son John have left & are now living with William Towell in Ferriby Sluice (mistranscribed as Handerson), Edward is still in Barton & he now has a son Edward, & on his baptism, it says he is the son of Edward & Mary Ann. Edward dies in 1869, Mary Ann marries William Towell the following year & in 1871, both her sons are living with them.
The marriage cert was for a marriage in Hull in Oct 1851, the occupation & father for Edward are fine, although he gives his address as Albert St Withan, which doesn't appear to exist. He is listed as a widower. She is shown as Mary Ann AnderSon not AnderTon & her father is shown as William Mapplethorpe and she is also a widow, which is what I had expected.
The problem is that I can't find a marriage for Mary Ann to John Anderton, or a death for Edward's first wife. To make it worse, I've found a tree on Ancestry which lists Mary Ann Mapplethorpe as being the mother of John Edward & Edward Anderton, husband John, who died 1859
and who then goes on to marry William Towell, but no mention of her marriage to my ggg grandfather!Help, I am VERY confused!!
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