This is partly a call for help, but also partly a way of venting/organising my thoughts: just trying to sort all this out tends to give me a headache. :D
My ancestor Thomas Tickle married Mary Brook on August 3 1729, St Peter de Witton.
Their son, George, married a Mary Brook on August 20 1764, at Hampton Lovett, with the bride being of that parish and one of the witnesses being Philip Pomfrey.
I found a headstone which lists John Brook having died 12 April 1772 aged 72 years, his wife Mary died 11 August 1783, aged 89 years, as well as Philip Pumfrey (died May 2 1772) and his wife (Mary, daughter of John Penrice) (died 14 April 1748), along with his grandson, Philip (died 11 August 1830). That gave me the first real clues.
I then contacted a Pumfrey researcher: she revealed that Philip Pumfrey's son Philip John Pumfrey (known as known: a mercer and draper of Droitwich) married (sigh) yet another Mary Brook: there's another headstone for husband and wife. She died 21 Dec 1793, aged 62 years (meaning she was born around 1731). I have found a baptism for that year for a Mary, daughter of John and Mary, which, I think, is likely to be the one I'm after.
The problem is the two Mary Brooks that married my Tickles and how they fit into all of this. A cousin found a baptism for the earlier one in 1716, St Peter de Witton, daughter of John (the only one for the time period in the IGI) but now I've gotten in contact with a man who appears to be descended from that Mary and she married someone else. :(
As for the second one, I've found a baptism in 1735 for a Mary Brook, daughter of Edward and Elizabeth in St Peter de Witton and, yes, that could be her (George Tickle was born in 1733), but I'm not sure. I found her burial in 1775 but there was no age of death.
The only real clues I have right now are a chronological list of all the baptisms, burials, and marriages I could find in transcriptions of the St Augustine, Dodderhill; St Peter de Witton; and Hampton Lovett parish registers, along with St Andrew baptisms and marriages from the IGI. That gave me some tantalising hints that might be my Brook family: occupations of clothier, glover, and weaver, considering that John Pumfrey (who married into the family) was a mercer and draper.
I have to admit I've had it easy so far: contact with family members and easily accessible sources like the NSW bdm indexes, certificates bought by my mother, and the IGI have meant that this is the first real challenge I've faced, so I would welcome any ideas on how to sort out the Brook family and make sure that, when I put down the Mary Brooks parentage I have the right ones.
My ancestor Thomas Tickle married Mary Brook on August 3 1729, St Peter de Witton.
Their son, George, married a Mary Brook on August 20 1764, at Hampton Lovett, with the bride being of that parish and one of the witnesses being Philip Pomfrey.
I found a headstone which lists John Brook having died 12 April 1772 aged 72 years, his wife Mary died 11 August 1783, aged 89 years, as well as Philip Pumfrey (died May 2 1772) and his wife (Mary, daughter of John Penrice) (died 14 April 1748), along with his grandson, Philip (died 11 August 1830). That gave me the first real clues.
I then contacted a Pumfrey researcher: she revealed that Philip Pumfrey's son Philip John Pumfrey (known as known: a mercer and draper of Droitwich) married (sigh) yet another Mary Brook: there's another headstone for husband and wife. She died 21 Dec 1793, aged 62 years (meaning she was born around 1731). I have found a baptism for that year for a Mary, daughter of John and Mary, which, I think, is likely to be the one I'm after.
The problem is the two Mary Brooks that married my Tickles and how they fit into all of this. A cousin found a baptism for the earlier one in 1716, St Peter de Witton, daughter of John (the only one for the time period in the IGI) but now I've gotten in contact with a man who appears to be descended from that Mary and she married someone else. :(
As for the second one, I've found a baptism in 1735 for a Mary Brook, daughter of Edward and Elizabeth in St Peter de Witton and, yes, that could be her (George Tickle was born in 1733), but I'm not sure. I found her burial in 1775 but there was no age of death.
The only real clues I have right now are a chronological list of all the baptisms, burials, and marriages I could find in transcriptions of the St Augustine, Dodderhill; St Peter de Witton; and Hampton Lovett parish registers, along with St Andrew baptisms and marriages from the IGI. That gave me some tantalising hints that might be my Brook family: occupations of clothier, glover, and weaver, considering that John Pumfrey (who married into the family) was a mercer and draper.
I have to admit I've had it easy so far: contact with family members and easily accessible sources like the NSW bdm indexes, certificates bought by my mother, and the IGI have meant that this is the first real challenge I've faced, so I would welcome any ideas on how to sort out the Brook family and make sure that, when I put down the Mary Brooks parentage I have the right ones.
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