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I think you all are amazing!!!

never mind this ... Dea posted the 'James SMITH Lane' while I was searching again :-)

what's that about now ??

edit ... I would say that Sarah made up 'James Smith Lane' to cover the fact that she was using the name Lane ...


( edited out possible marriage of Dennis Lane and Sarah Ann Smith in Maidstone 1848 )


the Rogers Lane marriage certificate will show her marital status at the time of that marriage ... although it might say 'widow' even if she wasn't :-)

groom's name: James Smith
bride's name: Rebecca Symonds
marriage date: 10 Jan 1807
marriage place: St Nicholas, Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, England
indexing project (batch) number: M16315-4
system origin: England-ODM
source film number: 1526456

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that couple had a Load of children including, and I am not making this up, Mary Christmas Smith :-)

https://www.familysearch.org/#form=advanced-records

search for surname Smith, parents James and Rebecca, Yarmouth Norfolk England, 1830 +/- 20 years just to cover the territory

That's so funny!!!!! :-)

The marriage cert for Robert + Sarah shows her as 'spinster'

Dea x

ah, did I miss that ? so I think she was using the surname Lane as that was the name of the man she had a child with and had to fudge to make her father fit the story

but she might have been married and committing bigamy ! ... and had to fudge to make her father fit the story :-)

I found a marriage in 1848 June Quarter on Free BMD Sarah Smith to maybe William Lane. Then there's a death William Lane December Quarter 1848 in Greenwich. Maybe ??????

ah, I went looking for a death for Dennis Lane and didn't bother with the William Lane marriage just because I thought the name would be too common

but yes that is possible ... although in that case she would not have needed to fudge her father's name ...

the actual certificate ( Rogers and Lane ) might be a better thing to have than the transcript of the record ... it could be that some scribe or automated system added 'Lane' to her father's name maybe ? but it does say 'spinster' Dea said ... I would get it and the birth certificate to be completely sure

British Army Service Records 1760-1915 Transcription

First name(s): Robert

Last name: ROGERS

Calculated year of birth: 1825

Parish of birth: St Nicholas

Town of birth: Newcastle on Tyne

County of birth: Northumberland

Age at attestation: 22 years

Attestation date: 5 March 1847

Attestation corps:

Attestation soldier number:

Discharge rank: Gunner

Discharge corps: Royal Artillery

Discharge soldier number: 3258

The National Archives reference: WO97 / 1347 / 69



Record shows in Crimea for 1 year 6 months

and in Sydney, NSW for 8 years 3 months


Discharged on 7th April 1868

Intended place of residence - Woolwich

London, England, Marriages and Banns, 1754-1921 about William Lane
Name: William Lane mariner
Age: Full Age
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1848
Spouse Name: Sarah Smith
Record Type: Marriage
Marriage Date: 16 Apr 1848
Parish: St Dunstan and All Saints, Stepney
County: Middlesex
Borough: Tower Hamlets
Father Name: William Lane
Spouse Father Name: James Smith mariner

1851 England Census about Robert Rogers
Name: Robert Rogers
Age: 30
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1821
Relation: Corporal
Gender: M (Male)
Where born: Norham, Northumberland, England
Civil parish: St Marylebone
County/Island: Middlesex
Country: England
Street Address:

Occupation:

Condition as to marriage:

Disability:

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Registration district: Marylebone
Sub-registration district: Rectory
ED, institution, or vessel: Portman Barracks
Neighbors: View others on page
Household schedule number: 1
Piece: 1488
Folio: 808
Page Number: 4

maybe ?

Event(s):
Birth:
18 MAY 1821 Presbyterian Church, Etal, Northumberland, England
Christening:
Death:
Burial:

Parents:
Father: ROBT. ROGERS
Family
Mother: ELIZABETH

Messages:
Extracted birth or christening record for the locality listed in the record. The source records are usually arranged chronologically by the birth or christening date.

It is not a transcription Chrissie - it's an image of the actual parish register which is on Ancestry.

Witnesses were :

'James Smith Lane' and Hannah Smith

Dea x

ah good Dea, solves that, except that it leaves it a bit of a mystery still :-)

... why was she using the name Lane ?

I stand by my earlier comment .....you ARE truly amazing!!!!

I have also looked at the Sarah marriage cert to William Lane.(posted above). Witnesses on there are James Smith and Rebecca Smith but although James has not included the 'Lane' after his name as on the later one, It does look like the same signature to me ??

I can't see though why Sarah would need to call herself a Spinster and why her father would add her married name after his own ???

Dea x

if William Lane was alive and kicking she would have had to :-)

Sarah Smith marrying William Lane is definitely the one whose baptism record I posted it seems

and that Sarah Smith is identical on all points to the wife of Robert Rogers ...

( from date and place of birth in the censuses that is )

This is Rebecca's baptism which states her father as William (deceased) Mariner.:

London, England, Births and Baptisms, 1813-1906
about Robecca Lane
Name: Robecca Lane
Record Type: Baptism
Estimated Birth Date: abt 1848
Baptism Date: 6 Oct 1848
Father's Name: William Lane
Mother's Name: Sarah Lane
Parish or Poor Law Union: Greenwich St Alphege
Borough: Greenwich

Address - (looks like) Roan St.
Born - 15th September last.

SO why on earth did she not call herself a widow and why did her father change his name??

Does all seem to fit well though.

Dea x

well ... she could just as well have been fibbing on the baptism about William being dead !

the marriage was in June quarter 1848 so possibly as early as late March 1848

the birth was 15 September 1848

six months at the very outside ;-)

perhaps the marriage didn't last as long as the pregnancy ... a quick 'I do' and he was done and back to sea

but meanwhile her next husband and the public knew her as Sarah Lane ... heaven knows, oh what a tangled web we weave, etc etc

Or, as often happened in those times, the clerk whether the minister or his deacon or whatever, may have written up his registry notes at a later date and muddled things or not had all the facts.


Ozi