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George Wiltshire (and variants): two marriages?
posted Tuesday, 3 May 2005
Pursuing the marriage of George Wiltshire (or variants) I've found two possibilities in the IGI and Ancestry.co.uk which don't really make too much immediate sense.
George Wiltshire married Mary Anne Luton on 17 July 1842 in Aston Juxta Birmingham, Warwickshire (Aston, 16 254).
George Wiltshire, son of William, married Mary Ann Layton on 3 January 1852 in Northill, Bedfordshire (Biggleswade, 3b 447).
I wouldn't have paid much attention to the first had it not been the only result in an IGI search for a George and Mary Ann in a ten-year period. But finding the second marriage ten years after the first, in two different places, but with very similar names for the bride, made me wonder. Coincidence probably. The second marriage could have taken place a few years after George and Mary Ann's first children were born. It's possible that they may have married earlier ... but why in Warwick, and where are any earlier children's records? The youngest in the 1861 census was born around 1847.
For an added twist, Thomas Layton, a garden labourer and his family, are living next door to Joseph Wilsher and family in Beeston, Sandy, int he 1861 census, which might suggest a connection between the Layton and Wilsher families.
George Wiltshire married Mary Anne Luton on 17 July 1842 in Aston Juxta Birmingham, Warwickshire (Aston, 16 254).
George Wiltshire, son of William, married Mary Ann Layton on 3 January 1852 in Northill, Bedfordshire (Biggleswade, 3b 447).
I wouldn't have paid much attention to the first had it not been the only result in an IGI search for a George and Mary Ann in a ten-year period. But finding the second marriage ten years after the first, in two different places, but with very similar names for the bride, made me wonder. Coincidence probably. The second marriage could have taken place a few years after George and Mary Ann's first children were born. It's possible that they may have married earlier ... but why in Warwick, and where are any earlier children's records? The youngest in the 1861 census was born around 1847.
For an added twist, Thomas Layton, a garden labourer and his family, are living next door to Joseph Wilsher and family in Beeston, Sandy, int he 1861 census, which might suggest a connection between the Layton and Wilsher families.
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