Could this have been a first marriage for Mark Gifford?

Marriages Sep 1866 (>99%)
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GIFFORD Mark Bristol 6a 168
JONES Harriett A Bristol 6a 168
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With these children?

Record_ID: 4267
Entry_Number: 62
Year: 1873
Month: Mar
Day: 19
Parents_Surname: GIFFORD
Child_Forenames: Millicent Clara
Fathers_Forenames: Mark
Mothers_Forenames: Harriet Ann
Mothers_Surname:
Residence: Bream
Occupation: Miner
Officiating_Minister: J F Gosling
Event: Baptism
Memoranda: Sponsers Mark Gifford Harriet Ann Gifford Mary Batten
Notes:
Register_Reference: P57 IN 1/4
Page_Number: 8
Parish_Chapel: Bream
Soundex: G163
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Record_ID: 3985
Entry_Number: 571
Year: 1868
Month: Mar
Day: 22
Parents_Surname: GIFFORD
Child_Forenames: Elizabeth Jane
Fathers_Forenames: Mark
Mothers_Forenames: Harriet Ann
Mothers_Surname:
Residence: Bream
Occupation: Miner
Officiating_Minister: Basil A. Galland Curate
Event: Baptism
Memoranda:
Notes:
Register_Reference: P57 IN 1/3
Page_Number: 72
Parish_Chapel: Bream
Soundex: G163
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Record_ID: 4116
Entry_Number: 706
Year: 1870
Month: Jul
Day: 17
Parents_Surname: GIFFORD
Child_Forenames: George Jones
Fathers_Forenames: Mark
Mothers_Forenames: Harriet Ann
Mothers_Surname:
Residence: Lydney Lane
Occupation: Miner
Officiating_Minister: J. F. Gosling
Event: Baptism
Memoranda: Sponsors William Jones Mark Gifford Harriet Ann Gifford
Notes:
Register_Reference: P57 IN 1/3
Page_Number: 89
Parish_Chapel: Bream
Soundex: G163

...and this death?

Deaths Jun 1874 (>99%)
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Gifford Harriet Ann 32 Monmouth 11a 14

Record_ID: 52355
Entry_Number: 820
Year: 1874
Month: Apr
Day: 27
Surname: GIFFORD
Forenames: Harriet Ann
Residence: Bream
Age_at_death: 32
Officiating_Minister: J F Gosling
Event: Burial
Cause_of_death:
Memoranda:
Notes:
Register_Reference: P57 IN 1/17
Page_No: 103
Parish_Chapel: Bream
Soundex: G163

Methinks this be yer Jones connection!

Hello Kirsty

Only just seen this message. Ida Maud Gifford was my grandmother's sister. My grandmother was Damaris Gifford and Ida and Damaris were two of the three children born to Mark Gifford and Phoebe Morse. You have probably seen their photos on this site. Mark was previously married to a Harriet Jones 1842-1874 and they had three children. I have been in touch with Ida's granddaughter and she says that Ida was fostered by an 'aunt who had no children' because their mother (Phoebe) couldn't cope and the foster father was governor of Liverpool Jail. I have only found this out in the last week or two. I couldn't understand why Ida didn't appear in the 1881 and 1891 censuses but I found her in 1901 in service at Liverpool at the home of her uncle William who was by now a widower.

I have also been trying to find the family connection, at first I thought William was a relation of Ida's fathers first wife Harriet Jones until I saw he was born in Ireland and Harriet was from Oldland in the Forest of Dean.

It seems very strange that Ida was given up at such an early age whereas the other children all stayed in the Forest of Dean. My grandmother also came up north to Lancashire.

Janet

My great grandfather Mark Gifford had three children by his first wife, Harriet Jones as follows:-
Elizabeth Jane Gifford in 1868, George Jones Gifford in 1870 and Millicent Clara Gifford in 1873. All three were baptised at Bream. Source: Parish Records

After Harriet died, Mark married Phoebe Morse at Parkend in 1875 and had a further three children Ida Maud born 1876, Harry born 1879 and my grandmother Damaris Maria born 1880. On the parish records I can't find a baptism for the last three children.
They all lived in Yorkley and I am wondering if there is a church around that area where the records have not been transcribed?

I did find a burial in 1899 for Harry in Viney Hill.