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I am beginning to wonder............she is on every census and her MC as Eliza........do you think I maybe have the wrong baptism as it says Elizabeth..........I was told this information about her baptism by someone who was linked very closely to her husbands family.......

Yup, that's what I've thought all along.

If I believed everything somebody linked to a relation's spouse's family told me, I'd be tracing a couple who are not my great-grandparents at all. Say: John Smith and Mary, who married around 1860. The GR member in whose tree I found them had picked a John Smith + Mary marriage in the area where they lived, obviously at random, and assigned them to my gr-grfather as his parents. I was happy to know it, since I was very new to it all. But then it started not adding up, and I got some certificates, and lo, the John Smith and Mary she had put in her multi-thousand name tree had nothing to do with my family. (Some distant cousin of hers had married my gr-grfather's sister.) I identified the right couple, but it took months to persuade her to correct the misinformation she had on the net.


Now, the reason I asked about her husband was so that you might tell us who and where he was. I know it looked like a yes/no question ... I should be clearer. Can you tell us where he was?

I'm just thinking that since people then didn't up sticks and move very far, usually, she might be in the same parish, or at least the same general vicinity.

The one Sue has is a possibility. There may end up being no way of knowing.


Oh -- I'm still looking for two of my grx2 grandfathers in 1841, five years on. (Found a grx3 from Wiltshire in the 1841 just last year, in Scotland of all places.) Sometimes, they just really don't want to be found. ;)