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MarieCeleste

MarieCeleste Report 11 Oct 2015 09:51

Sorry, what I meant was that if Kendal was her maiden name and she then wed, e.g. a Mr Smith, then she would have remarried as Elizabeth Smith.

Do you have James and Elizabeth on the 1851 census?

Rosalinda

Rosalinda Report 11 Oct 2015 09:44

John is their child. Just a mo, I'm just trying to find something on my emails about this

MarieCeleste

MarieCeleste Report 11 Oct 2015 09:29

On the birth certificates it should state the mothers' previous names, e.g. Elizabeth Smith, formerly Kendal. Of course, it depends on who registered the birth and if they bothered to give the information.

You mention the first child was born 1852, someone with a tree on Ancestry has a child for them born in 1850:

Name: John Davidson
Gender: Male
Baptism Date: 26 Jun 1850
Baptism Place: Brampton,Cumberland,England
Father: James Davidson
Mother: Elizabeth
FHL Film Number: 0252842-0252847

Now whether that person has mistakenly added that boy as a child of theirs when in fact he belongs to another James and Elizabeth is hard to confirm. That infant doesn't appear with them on the 1861 census.

Rosalinda

Rosalinda Report 11 Oct 2015 09:18

Yes her name was on her children's birth certs. All the others in the family were married so I think they would have married. I suppose it is possible that Kendal was her married name if she had been married before

MarieCeleste

MarieCeleste Report 11 Oct 2015 09:14

Hello Rosalinda - why can't you believe they weren't married? It wasn't unusual back then.

One of them may have already been married to someone else so they weren't free to wed.

Another possibility is that Elizabeth had been previously married and widowed so the marriage would have been in her then married name.

Did you get her maiden name from a birth certificate?

Rosalinda

Rosalinda Report 11 Oct 2015 09:10

I am trying to find a marriage in Cumberland between James Davidson and Elizabeth Kendal about 1850 as their first child was born in 1852. I can't find a marriage and was wondering whether to travel up to Carlisle to look for it. Someone else asked the office there to look for it but they didn't come up with anything so it may be a lost marriage. I can't believe they weren't married. Elizabeth is shown as born in Carlisle c1826 and James around the Brampton area c1824.

Please has anyone any ideas where I can go from here?

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