Re: Sometimes you just get lucky!

On 01/08/2011 22:15, Jenny M Benson wrote:
I just found an entry on the Lancashire OPC site for the baptism of a
distant relative. Bless him, the vicar has thought to record that the
child was the 3rd child and 2nd daughter of her parents!

I knew there was an older sister but now I know to look for an older
brother who presumably died in infancy.

I've just got lucky with a marriage cert. I played a hunch that George Frederick N. Williams who married Islington 1892, Islington, was in fact going to be G. F. Nicholls Crouch, born 1845, Hereford The surname change looked feasible, as did the place of marriage. But, if so, retaining the Nicholls element seemed most unlikely given the acrimony of his parents separation. Further, the only promising 1891 census hit for Islington was a man who was given as already already married.

Chasing certs is an expensive hobby but sometimes we can be lucky. In this case, there was enough on the cert to firmly identify George as the right man, despite his claiming to be the son of another G.F.N. Crouch.

In the words of the great philosopher Hannibal Smith, "I love it when a plan comes together."
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Phil C.
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