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Hi everyone

I have a bit of a mystery really - although it may be just me that thinks this.

My relative Henry Bales married Rebecca Stevenson on 23 January 1863 in Lambeth but the only birth I can find which would fit her in 1842 around the Lambeth area is for a Rebecca Swan Stevenson - however the marriage certificate I have for Rebecca and Henry appears to show her name as Maria - any help would be gratefully received.

Many thanks

As there was no penalty until 1875 for NOT registering births, the person you are researching may simply not have been registered

Quite clearly MARIA for the second name of the one Henry married

Marriages Mar 1863 (>99%)
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BALES Henry Lambeth 1d 298
GUMMER George Lambeth 1d 298
STEVENSON Rebecca Maria Lambeth 1d 298

What was Rebecca's father's name and occupation please?

Where was Rebecca born?

What was her father's name?

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Marriages Dec 1839 (>99%)
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Cook William St George Southwark 4 456
CURTIS George St. Geo. Southwark 4 456
Pankhurst Mary Ann Bridget St. Geo. Southwk. 4 456
SAVAGE Henrta St. Geo. Southwark 4 456
SINGER John St. Geo. Southwark 4 456
..............STEVENSON Thomas St. Geo Southk 4 456
..............SWAN Rebecca St. Geo. Southwk 4 456
WICKS Mary Ann Brasier St. Geo. Southwark 4 456

Looks like Rebecca mums maiden name was Swan.......so maybe she look another one for her marriage....

Regards Vera

Hi Flick

Didn't think of that - it's just that on the baptism records it shows her dad as Thomas and the marriage cert shows the same name and also the profession is the same - shoemaker business.

Thanks

?????

1851
Rebecca Stevenson
Age: 9
Estimated birth year: abt 1842
Relation: Daughter
Father's Name: Thomas
Mother's Name: Rebecca
Gender: Female
Where born: Walworth, Surrey, England

Civil parish: Southwark St George
County/Island: Surrey
Country: England

Street Address:

Occupation:

Condition as to marriage:

Disability: View image

Registration district: St George Southwark
Sub-registration district: London Road
ED, institution, or vessel: 13
Neighbors: View others on page
Household schedule number: 181
Household Members: Name Age
Thomas Stevenson 33
Rebecca Stevenson 31
Rebecca Stevenson 9
Thomas Stevenson 8
George Stevenson 7


Regards Vera

Sorry I didn't see all the other messages - her dad's name is Thomas and was a shoemaker, according to the Census' she was born Walworth, Lambeth

Thanks

On the 1851 I showed you her father is a shoemaker and chandler.

Regards Veea

Hi Vera

I think that is her - but all the children have swan as a middle name on the baptisms on Ancestry

Thanks
x

There's this baptism on Ancestry.

Name: Rebecca Mary Maria Stevenson
Record Type: Baptism
Date: 4 Oct 1846
Father's Name: William Stevenson
Mother's Name: Ann Stevenson
Parish: Holy Trinity, Clapham
Borough: Lambeth
County: Middlesex

Christine

Do know Rebecca's fathers name.

Name: Rebecca Mary Maria Stevenson
Record Type: Baptism
Date: 4 Oct 1846
Father's Name: William Stevenson
Mother's Name: Ann Stevenson
Parish: Holy Trinity, Clapham
Borough: Lambeth
County: Middlesex

Hi

No her dad's name is Thomas - this is shown on the marriage certificate

Thanks
x

Looks like all of the second names were their mothers maiden names.

That doesn't mean they would always the middle name .
Regards Vera

On the 1851 I showed you........... everything fits fathers name and occupation.....What do you think?

Regards Vera

Hi Vera

I think that this is her on the 1851 census that you found but I am still confused as to why she would have Maria on the marr cert as her middle name - and I can't find a birth with Maria as a middle name for the time that she would have been born - the only one is with Swan, so if they are the same person why would her middle name on the marr cert not be Swan?

Thanks

x

Middy,
You can put whatever names you like on a marriage certificate...maybe she didn't like Swan and decided on Maria.....my grandmother was born Annie Maud...but on her marriage certificate she is Vera Ann !!!


Regards Vera

That is true Vera just don't know whether I am then heading off in the wrong/right direction

Regards

xx

Here they are in 1841...

address Pleasant Place as on the baptism record.....

Thomas Stevenson
Age: 20
Estimated birth year: abt 1821
Gender: Male
Where born: Surrey, England

Civil parish: St Mary Newington
Hundred: Brixton (Eastern Division)
County/Island: Surrey
Country: England

Street Address:

Occupation: View image

Registration district: St Mary Newington
Sub-registration district: St Peters
Neighbors: View others on page
Household Members: Name Age


Thomas Stevenson 20 shoemaker
Rebecca Stevenson 20
Rebecca Stevenson 5weeks



Obviously you have to decide for yourself.....but personally I think we have the right one....


Regards Vera