I have just received a marriage certificate:
Francis Pearson / 20 / Bachelor / Labourer / Lichfield St. / Francis Pearson / (cannot read profession)
married
Ann Whitehead / 22 / Spinster / Machinist / Lichfield St. / James Whitehead / Labourer
at St. Editha's Church, Tamworth, Staffs, on 28th September 1874
Witnessed by Joseph Pearson (probably Francis's brother, found them on census records) and Eliza Whitehead.
I was initially really pleased to find out the name of Ann's father - my 3 x great grandfather, but I'm now a bit frustrated because I can't definitively find them in the census records.
The problem is that the only Ann Whitehead in the area with father = James was, according to the 1871, 1861, and 1851 census, born several years earlier. It can't be a mistranscription issue because this Ann appears on the 1851 census when my Ann shouldn't have been born yet.
1851: Class: HO107; Piece: 2013; Folio: 481; Page: 19;
1861: Class: RG9; Piece: 1971; Folio: 16; Page: 1;
1871: Class: RG10; Piece: 2912; Folio: 73; Page: 9;
Note the presence of an Eliza in the household in the 1871 census, cf. witness to marriage. In addition, the father's occupation matches.
I'm not concerned that the address is not Lichfield St. - this is where Francis lived before his marriage, and in the same parish as the church where he and Ann were married.
The age is really bothering me though. Did she maybe knock 5 years off her age because Francis was several years younger? The census records for 1881, 1891, and 1901 show her DOB as 1852 / 1854 / 1852 respectively.
In addition, I can't find a birth that fits for either the Ann Whitehead born in 1847/48 or the Ann Whitehead born in 1852.
Please can someone help me get my head round this?!
Francis Pearson / 20 / Bachelor / Labourer / Lichfield St. / Francis Pearson / (cannot read profession)
married
Ann Whitehead / 22 / Spinster / Machinist / Lichfield St. / James Whitehead / Labourer
at St. Editha's Church, Tamworth, Staffs, on 28th September 1874
Witnessed by Joseph Pearson (probably Francis's brother, found them on census records) and Eliza Whitehead.
I was initially really pleased to find out the name of Ann's father - my 3 x great grandfather, but I'm now a bit frustrated because I can't definitively find them in the census records.
The problem is that the only Ann Whitehead in the area with father = James was, according to the 1871, 1861, and 1851 census, born several years earlier. It can't be a mistranscription issue because this Ann appears on the 1851 census when my Ann shouldn't have been born yet.
1851: Class: HO107; Piece: 2013; Folio: 481; Page: 19;
1861: Class: RG9; Piece: 1971; Folio: 16; Page: 1;
1871: Class: RG10; Piece: 2912; Folio: 73; Page: 9;
Note the presence of an Eliza in the household in the 1871 census, cf. witness to marriage. In addition, the father's occupation matches.
I'm not concerned that the address is not Lichfield St. - this is where Francis lived before his marriage, and in the same parish as the church where he and Ann were married.
The age is really bothering me though. Did she maybe knock 5 years off her age because Francis was several years younger? The census records for 1881, 1891, and 1901 show her DOB as 1852 / 1854 / 1852 respectively.
In addition, I can't find a birth that fits for either the Ann Whitehead born in 1847/48 or the Ann Whitehead born in 1852.
Please can someone help me get my head round this?!
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