Bellamy and Coles Marriage 1740s (General)

by Keith Thomas , Tuesday, January 10, 2012, 15:54 (4704 days ago) @ Jefff

Yes I did mean Westbury on Severn. I have only just found that the Forest of Dean covered Westbury, I had overlooked this and have now been trawling through the data to see if I can get any further. I had noted the birth of William in 1709 but it has the same problem as the on in 1719, it is just as far away from 1715. The one in 1723 is too late I think even if the information on the MI is incorrect by a few years. I didn't have this one in my notes though and it didn't come up on a search perhaps because I restricted the years to 1710s. I had hoped that finding the missing marriage would give me a more accurate estimate of his date of birth, unfortunately it hasn't [assuming I now have the right one].
However I have been unable to find any family descendants for either of these Williams so it remains possible that one of them is the one I have traced back too. Without any proof one way or the other my work is still stalled so if anyone has a tree with either of these on it it would help considerably.
The link with Churcham is because the William of 1719 is from there not Westbury although his father Samuel was a Westbury Bellamy.
My research on the Bellamy and Wintle families was done mainly in the late 1980s when one had to visit the record offices and trawl through the information, some of which was still on original records. I have a mass of data on wills and deeds to the mid 1700s but this missing link prevents making the right connections to earlier people.
I am revisiting my old work in retirement and finding so much information on line that I wonder how I managed to get as far with pencil and paper.