Alfred BEALE 1853 ish Dymock /Redmarley area (General)

by dennisc3 , Saturday, September 29, 2012, 14:37 (4441 days ago) @ slowhands

Thank you Slowhands for your help. The 1852 wedding is correct, witnesses were Mary Ann's brother Peter and Williams's sister Caroline. Thanks also for the confirmation of the grandmother Ann's name in the 1861 census. I still have not found the entry in findmypast, but grandmother Ann is not right. Mary Ann's mother was Anne Cooper born 14 years earlier - 1783 - in Herefordshire. This would also explain why there are so many names I do not recognise as family on that census. The censuses for William's father Robert, incidentally, invariably show him as being born in Castlemorton or Birtsmorton. I have never actually found his birth or parentage and this seems, in general, to have set the theme for the whole family! Once he had been born, Robert was well-documented, but the earlier days have been eluding me for about twenty years now.

Thanks again to both your good self and Jefff for your help.