Genealogy Chat

MAny thanks, sorry I meant to type henry Fry so that is the marriage. So he would be the stepson, presumeably Ann was previously married to a Gale, so in theiry there may be a JAne GAle who then used her stepfathers name in marriage. The Parish records tdo not show any Jane Chesterman born c 1831

There is this marriage on Ancestry in 1856:- Name: Jane Chesterman Year of Registration: 1856 Quarter of Registration: Oct-Nov-Dec District: Cirencester County: Gloucestershire, Wiltshire Volume: 6a Page: 639 However, one of the names on the same page is a Henry Fry, NOT Thomas Fry. Kath. x

son-in-law may mean stepson (ie a son from one of the parents previous relationships)

Son in law at that time usually meant step-son if the person was under the age for marriage. Kath. x

Here's a very tricky one requiring some inspirational creative detective work. I'm trying to locate my GGG grandmother a Jane CHESTERMAN b c 1831 in Clyffe Pypard, Wiltshire It's proving extremely difficult as she does not seem to appear on the 1851 or (at least in Wiltshire) on the 1841 census. She seems to have married my GGG grandfather Henry FRY in 1856 in Cirencester (Wilts/Glos border). The facts that I know are: Thomas Fry c 1829, Chedworth, Glos married a Jane born c 1831 and had children Mary Ann, Ellen , Charlotte, Esther, George starting 1857 all of whom were living in Chedworth, Glos 1861-1901 On BMD the only marriage that would seem to fit is for a Henry Fry to a Jane Chesterman in Cirencester in 1856 Jane gives different places or birth on each census, these include Cleeve, Glos; Wilts, Corrny Cleeve (mistranscribed as Wilts (county) Cleeve), Chedworth and Cleeve, Wilts. - there is a Bishops Cleeve and Cleeve Hill in Glos but it seems very unlikely that she would be from there as she would not have mentioned Wiltshire twice on the two censuses (its more natural that a Glos census taker would put down Glos automatically in the other 2 censuses.) When one looks for CHESTERMAN's in Wiltshire in 1851 it's quickly clear that its an uncomon name but there are several CHESTERMAN families in Clyffe Pypard, Wiltshire. I understand that Clyffe was pronounced 'Cleeve' so it would seem very likely that she came from this village. Unfortunately I cannot find her on the censuses for 1851 or (more surprisingly) 1841. There seem to be a couple of possibilities one is that the Fanny Chesterman c 1831 daughter of Michael Chesterman and Charlotte (which incidentally was not a traditional 'Fry' name in Clyffe Pypard for some reason changed her name (or used a middle name) there is no sign of Fanny Chesterman in the BMD and she does not show up after 1851 censuses. Another possibility is that she may be a daughter of Thomas and Ann Chesterman from Clyffe who on the 1851 census are living with a 13 year old 'son in law' called Walter Gale. A possibility i thought of is that The Chesterman's may have adopted him (and possibly a sister Jane) who then got married under the Chesterman name. None of this seems to be very plausible so any inspirational ideas/suggestions would be much appreciated.