Amelia Matthews born Lydbrook abt 1858 (General)

by chrisp, Monday, June 08, 2009, 10:00 (5721 days ago)

My great great grandmother was an Amelia Matthews born in Lydbrook about 1858. The only A M I have found was the daughter of William and Elizabeth Matthews (nee Jones). My Amelia married a Charles Henry Nelmes (also known as Henry), but I can find no record of their marriage. The family story is that they eloped to Gretna Green in the late 1870s. They lived in Cumberland where several of their children were born including my great grandather William Henry Nelmes, and eventually settled in North Yorkshire on the Castle Howard estate.

I recently found an entry in the Lydbrook parish records of a marriage of Amelia Nelmes to a Charles Spencer in November 1875. Could this be my Amelia Matthews as I have not found records of any other around this time? I would appreciate any help to try to solve this mystery