Help with a Bradford Wiltshire marriage record?
@PhilipCaine and I have been discussion multiple records and searches. His most recent one is regarding a marriage record possibly in Bradford Wiltshire. @DavidBeck1@Jill 2021 or @Graham Buckell would you be able to help Philip with his questions?
Please see part of our correspondence below: @DavidBeck1
A very helpful member was able to access a Family Search centre via her local library on my behalf. She searched the parish records for Lacock Wiltshire for the marriage of George Cains (FS ID# M6QQ-6RS) and Hester. Although all of their 10 children were baptised there, the marriage wasn't found. A later census reveals Hester Cains was born in Bradford Wiltshire not Lacock so it seems possible she could have married there. I wondered if the records she searched included Bradford as well as Lacock and any Wiltshire marriage would have shown up. (She is no longer responding to messages)
I thought maybe a Family history centre in Wiltshire UK might have access to transcriptions of local Parish Registers made by local family history societies.
The details are that Parish registers for Lacock Wiltshire show the baptisms in the 1820s, of 10 children of George Cains (b1781) and Hester Cains. There is no sign of a marriage which judging by the ages of the children, would have been circa 1819. In a later census Hester claims to have been born (Circa 1793) in Bradford Wiltshire and therefore possibly married there. The question is would a search for Lacock have included records for Bradford, or are they different?
I would welcome knowing if there is an alternative way of accessing the Bradford-on-Avon parish registers as we have discussed. Having exhausted the usual channels and the internet sources, I'm beginning to suspect there isn't a record, but maybe a local Family centre may have something not yet digitised - a faint hope indeed.
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I see that, on George's record M6QQ-6RS, there is a marriage already added to Hester on 3 Feb 1817 in Lacock. As far as I can see, this marriage record is not available on FamilySearch but it is available on both Ancestry and FindMyPast as between George Cary and Hesther Salmon, both of this parish. Neither site offers original images.
Checking the FMP Wiltshire marriages, there are no other plausible candidates for George Cains although, even ticking surname variants, George Cary does not show up.
Marriages in Bradford in that time period are part of FMP's marriage index. Searching for George and Hester (with name variants) there without a surname in the period 1810 to 1820 produces only one result for George Butcher in 1819.
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I can't find much more than Graham, other than Find My Past has indexed Hesther's surname as both SALMON and SELMAN. The family (if sources are correct) appear to have moved to Halifax, Yorkshire by 1841.
I have just found a widowed Esther Cain (born Bradford, Wiltshire) in the household of son Thomas Cain at Elland, Yorkshire in the 1861 census. See https://www.freecen.org.uk/search_records/5a4e2e19f4040b43d70659c8/esther-cain-1861-yorkshire-west-riding-elland-1794-?locale=en.
Further update - see https://www.familysearch.org/search/record/results?count=20&q.givenName=esther&q.residenceDate.from=1841&q.residenceDate.to=1871&q.residencePlace=yorkshire&q.residencePlace.exact=on&q.surname=cain&treeref=M6QQ-6RS&f.collectionId=1493747&f.collectionId=2563939&f.collectionId=1493745 for Esther's 1841, 1851 & 1861 census source links.
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@Graham Buckell and @Paul W thank you so much for your help! I've made sure @PhilipCaine has seen your responses. I so appreciate you jumping in here!
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As this is a duplicate of the post in the England group, i suggest that this thread is closed and any further comments posted on the other thread.
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