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Ann

Ann Report 31 Mar 2010 20:16

Can anybody offer any advice on how I could find birth records and/or parent information for my ancestor?

Her name was Rebecca Jemima Johnson and Census records show that she was born sometime between 1814 and 1817 in France but that she was a British Subject.

She married James Taylor in Manchester in1834

She has been very difficult to track because she sometimes used the name Rebecca and sometimes Jemima.

Gwyn in Kent

Gwyn in Kent Report 31 Mar 2010 21:45

Have you seen a copy of the parish register for the marriage to James?
Maybe the witness names will give a clue to her family?

Did she have any later marriage after 1837, when her father should have been named on the certificate?
Have you tracked her through the census years to see if her family are staying with her at any time?

Gwyn

Ann

Ann Report 31 Mar 2010 22:10

Gwyn,
I put out a request for help with marriage look up and was informed that they did bulk marriages at this time at Manchester Cathedral and witnesses were usually church members and nothing to do with the couple getting married.

I have been given information from the censuses. There was a Robert Southall in the 1861 census but he went on to marry one of the daughters later that year and the only other mention of anyone other than her husband and children was a Thomas Johnson aged 20 in the 1871 census, I guess he could be a nephew but have so far had no joy finding anything else on him

Ann