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Yes we have a LDS FHC in Newport...have been meaning to give them a visit sometime!

Jude

Jude, the record Ann has posted gives the film No - you could order the film to view at your LDS Family History Centre but the image would probably not give you much more info, probably just the witnesses names.

Yes Ann...unfortunately like the two records I posted originally of the marriage there is "no image available" which is just so infuriating :-)

One line of thought I might pursue is whether they named the children after HER side of the family.....the children were named Sarah Alfred James Maria Rebecca Angelina and Dorcas.

James obviously could be after his father and Maria is obviously after her mother. But none of the other children's names feature in the family line.

Jude

Name: James A. Marchant
Spouse's Name: Maria Trolop
Event Date: 1825
Event Place: Saint James, Trowbridge, Wiltshire, England
Indexing Project (Batch) Number: M15350-4
System Origin: England-VR
GS Film number: 1279433
Reference ID: 2:1LMJ93L

I could never understand all the girls called Fanny !! 'Fanny' Hill's name was no accident I think ! (at least we can tell that all the poor men Ancestry has called P.... in the censuses were really Denis :-D )

just wanted to mention that you were too quick for me, I'd added a bit of info to the post above.

Joonie :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D

Yes I'd seen that birth in Horningsham and Googled it to see the distance from Trowbridge. And yes it is worth consideration I think.

As an aside one of my other great grandmothers was Frances Jane Cox known as Fanny :-0

the results at familysearch for Maria Trolope and variants are pretty much all in Horningsham which is w/in 10 miles of Trowbridge

there was a Mary 1806 daughter of James and Ann
and a Miriam 1806 daughter of Joseph and Mary

that might be a place to consider

the 1851 census for instance has rather a huge number of Trollop and variants born in Horningsham - close to 170 (out of 1330 total number born there barring mistranscriptions, that is quite a high ratio) ... and none born in Trowbridge


I have to say ... your gr-gr-grandmother was a Trollop and mine was a Hoare :-D

GO TO LAST POST FOR NEW UPDATE 28 FEBRUARY :-)

Maria was my great great grandmother. She married my great great grandfather James Marchant on 10 December 1825 (as attested by)

Name: Maria Trolop
Marriage Date: 10 Dec 1825
Parish: Trowbridge
Marital Status: Spinster (Single (Female))
Residence: of This Parish
Spouse: James Marchant
Spouse Marital Status: Bachelor (Single (Male))
Spouse Residence: Trowbridge
Document Type: Banns

and

Name: Maria Trolop
Gender: Female
Spouse's Name: James A. Marchant
Marriage Date: 10 Dec 1825
Marriage Place: Trowbridge, Wiltshire, England

Infuriatingly there are no images with either of these.

I know everything there is to know about her after she married James, right up to her death in 1859 in Cardiff.

But other than she was born ca 1806-8 in Trowbridge (from 1841 and 1851 censuses)

Name: Maria Merchant
[Maria Marchant]
Age: 43
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1808
Relation: Wife
Spouse's Name: James Arnes Merchant
Gender: F (Female)
Where born: Trowbridge, Wiltshire, England
Civil Parish: Trowbridge
Ecclesiastical parish: Trinity
County/Island: Wiltshire
Country: England
Street Address:
Registration District: Melksham
Sub-registration District: Melksham
ED, institution, or vessel: 2k
Neighbors: View others on page
Household Schedule Number: 94
Piece: 1840
Folio: 562
Page Number: 29
Household Members:
Name Age
James Arnes Merchant 43
Maria Merchant 43
Sarah Merchant 24
James Merchant 23
Alfred Merchant 13
Maria Merchant 9
Rebecca Merchant 6

- if she WAS the same age as James it is 1806 rather than 1808 (I am going to send for her death certificate to see what that says), I KNOW ABSOLUTELY LITTLE ABOUT HER! I am also going to send for my great grandmother's birth certificate which might help!

Any thoughts or suggestions as always greatly appreciated :-)