Bellamy Marriage search (General)

by Keith Thomas , Monday, February 17, 2014, 20:33 (3933 days ago)

Searching for marriage of William BELLAMY circa 1742
and information on the parish of Bitton

I have been searching for many years for the marriage of William BELLAMY to Elizabeth around 1741-3. William lived and farmed in Westbury on Severn. He died in January 1802, age given at the time as 88 indicating a birth about 1714-15. Elizabeth died in 1803 aged 84, giving a birth about 1718-19. Their first child recorded in Westbury was Mary, baptised in February 1743.Their seventh child Jane, born in 1752, (who married James WINTLE in 1778), is my g x3 grandmother. There are two possible births for William in the Westbury Area but the baptism of each is a few years each side of 1714-15. I had hoped that a marriage could provide more information to clarify the year of his birth and enable me to link into earlier BELLAMY families. I failed some 15 years ago despite extensive searching to find a marriage in Gloucestershire or surrounding counties and set this aside as a dead end.
Recently I returned to this dead end and using the internet I found a marriage in South Gloucestershire in the parish of Bitton which is on the Somerset border 6 miles south of Bristol. Unfortunately the information is very brief and simply states that on 30th September 1742 William BELLAMY and Elizabeth COLES were married. There are no BELLAMY or COLES entries in this register before this entry and none afterwards. There are COLES in Westbury however. There are Bellamys in North Petherton in Somerset but none relate to this marriage. Does anyone know of a link between these and the BELLAMYs of Westbury?
Is it possible that this is the marriage I have been seeking? It seems quite remote from Westbury. Is there any link between these parishes which could explain this marriage? Bitton seems to have a lot of marriage entries for a small parish. Any advice would be welcome.