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FOD records

Marriage at Taynton - 6 April 1807

John MATTHEWS (Bachelor) residence Tainton

married

Jemmima PIMBLE (Spinster) residence Tainton

by banns

mark of Esther white and William HAVEY

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FOD records - Marriage at Ruardean - 11 March 1811

Moses MATTHEWS - residence Ruardean

married

Catherine MARSH - residence Ruardean

witnesses: James MATTHEWS (mark and Joseph HARPER)

FOD records have a baptism of a James MATHEWS at Ruardean 16 February 1776, parents Richard & Ann (again Moses does have a son named Richard!)

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Moses & Catherine MATHEWS - are in Morse Lane, 1851 census - where your family were living also (just 3 doors away from each other!) - and seemed to have moved there between 1841 and 1851 ....... + George & Jemima named two of their children Moses and Catherine - which appear to be Moses parents names.

1851 Census Ruardean

Morse Lane

Moses MATHEWS - 68 Collier, born East Dean (Burial at Ruardean - 11 December 1851 age 69 years = c 1782)
Catherine MATHEWS - 64 - born East Dean
+ a couple of lodgers.

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1841 census, Ruardean, Morse Lane

MATHEWS

Moses - 55 - Collier
Catherine - 50
Elizabeth - 23 - FOD records 1814 - mother Catherine or Kitty
James - 17 - FOD records 1822
Richard - 15

(George 1812, Moses & Kitty)