Another delayed marriage

I wrote about the delayed marriage of Richard Iles and Patience Blandford in my last post. It appears that this also happened to Patience's daughter, Harriet.

On 4 November 1821, Patience brought her twins, Reuben and Harriet to the Brimpsfield Parish church to be baptized.  Harriet's brother died when he was only seven months old. She was baptized as Harriet Blandford. [1]

Harriet, it seems, to have gone by the name of Iles after her mother married Richard. She is listed as Iles in the 1841 census [2] and when she got married.

Harriet married widower Job Burbidge / Job Burbridge?, a stone mason from the Parish of Cowley on 17 November 1864 in the Brimpsfield Parish Church. His father's name is Bradford Burbidge, blacksmith. Her father is listed as Richard Iles, labourer. Their witnesses are George Snow and Elizabeth Iles. [3]

I found two sets of publishing of banns in the Brimpsfield Parish Church. The first was in July 1860 with the readings on the 1st, 8th and 15th of the month. [4] The second set was in October 1864 with the readings on the 2nd, 9th and 16th of the month. [5]

In the first viewed on Ancestry, her surname was transcribed as Kes. The banns say that they are both of this Parish. In the second set, it says Job Burbridge, widower of the Parish of Cowley and Harriet Iles of the Parish of Brimpsfield.

So what happened that they didn't get married until 1864?

In 1871 the couple was living in Stockwell, Parish of Cowley, Gloucestershire. Job was 69 with his occupation given as stone mason. Harriet was 56 years old with an occupation listed as dress maker. [6]

[1] Church of England. Parish Church of Brimpsfield (Gloucestershire), Parish Baptismal Register, baptisms of Reuben and Harriet Blandford, microfilm  991292 item 1 p. 10, no. 86, Family History Library, Salt Lake City.
[2] 1841 Census England, Gloucestershire, Brimpsfield, District 6, Folio 9, p. 11, line 1, Richard Iles household, H0107, Piece 367, Book 7; digital image, Ancestry.ca (http://www.ancestry.ca : accessed 11 May 2014), citing microfilm  288775, Family History Library, Salt Lake City.
[3]Church of England. Parish Church of Brimpsfield (Gloucestershire), Bishop's Transcript, Marriage Register, Iles - Burbridge; citing Gloucestershire Archives; Gloucester, England; Reference Numbers: GDR/V1/485
[4]  Church of England. Parish Church of Brimpsfield (Gloucestershire), Parish banns for Harriet Iles - Job Burbidge, p. 33, Gloucestershire Archives; Gloucester, England; Reference Numbers: P58 IN 1/10
[5] Church of England. Parish Church of Brimpsfield (Gloucestershire), Parish banns for Harriet Iles - Job Burbidge, p. 36, Gloucestershire Archives; Gloucester, England; Reference Numbers: P58 IN 1/10
[6] 1871 Census of England, Gloucestershire, Cowley Parish, Stockwell Class: RG10; Piece: 2662; Folio: 29; Page: 7, Job Burbidge household; digital image, Ancestry.ca (http://www.ancestry.ca : accessed 9 July 2016) citing microfilm: 835331, Family History Library, Salt Lake City.

© 2016 Janet Iles

Can't find church baptismal records? - Perhaps there is an explanation

Church records are examined regularly by someone from the Presbytery. When the records of the then Knox Presbyterian Church, Owen Sound, were checked, the above note indicates the baptismal records from June 12, 1907 to November 16, 1915 were not in the records examined.

Later in the session minutes, I noticed that they had asked the minister who had recently left, Rev. Rodger, if he still had the records in his possession. He had replied that he had left them with a couple of the elders.

It would appear from the following that at some point these records had been found as the missing dates are included in the finding aid at the United Church Archives in Toronto. If a person was interested in that particular time period, it would be worthwile to check if the missing dates were actually found. These records are not avaiable on microfilm.

© 2011 Janet Iles