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Nicola....You could have a look at the following site..I have had a search but appears they are still in the process of transcribing records...you could get in touch directly I suppose...


http://theclergydatabase.org.uk/cced-update-21-october-2015/

It may also be worthwhile checking out Missionary Ordinations.

Have you the backround of Stewart William Hanna..Jane's father..? Well that goes on and on and connects to Bethesda Chapel Dublin..

To the Memory of the

Rev. Benjamin Williams Mathias A.M.

Who for 31 years

Faithfully Filled the Situation of

Chaplain of Bethesda

Passionate and Impressive in his Teaching

Kind in his Manner

Mild and Humble in His Deportment

Uncompromising in His Testimony

To the Truth

He Lived Beloved and Died Regretted

A Grateful Congregation and other Friends

Have Erected this Monument

To the Memory of One

“Who Being Dead Yet Speaketh”

He Died the 30th of May 1841 Aged 68 Years.

Thank you again. I've contacted the clergy database and will post on here when they reply.
What a wonderful epitaph you have found; it makes for great reading.
Drat that elusive marriage between DRM and JEH! I keep on looking and using different permutations, but no luck yet ............
:-)

Nicola.
.JEH was at home in London 1851...her father died that year and her sister 1853 I wonder if she followed the Victorian mourning period of a year (father) then perhaps another when Mina died in which case you would at the earliest be looking at 1854 for a marriage...she herself would still be only 21/22 years old. Have you located her on the 1861 Census....?

I've found her in 1841, with her younger brother HBH my relation by marriage, etc. But I can't find her in 1851 or 1861 - is this me, or Ancestry?! Probably me. :-)

Nicola...
Gins posted 1851 census...go back to page 1 of this thread...9oct.18.21.

Sorry, I should have got back to this thread before bedtime! I did in fact go on to find her in 1851 with her parents, brother and sister - her younger brother, my relation by marriage see above, would have been +/- 20 years old and presumably was already out in India with his regiment by then? But I'm still defeated by her in the 1861 census.
Apologies to Gins; thank you for your work on the census entries. I'd seen it all previously but have become somewhat fixated on the elusive marriage ..........!

Nicola...As a last resort you could try ploughing through "Gentleman's Magazine" years 1853 onwards..I started but it takes some time given they may not have married until after DRM went back to UK in 1862.

I've just had an email from Lambeth Palace Library and they suggest the London Gazette, and a publication called the 'Carribbeana'. I'm ashamed to say that I can't make the Gazette website work - am I doing something wrong?
I'm also going to email the Registrar General in Jamaica and see if they have any records for the marriage, etc.
Nothing ventured, nothing gained.
:-)

Well, I've contacted all the above and more in my search for C of E records and have drawn a blank all round.

It appears that nowhere are the records of C of E vicars, etc. kept in a central place. Extraordinary! If nothing else, I was hoping to drop on somewhere that keeps a record of their 'staff'. But no.

So I think we'll have to accept that the Church of England doesn't keep that sort of records and we shall never find this elusive marriage.

Over and out on this one. But I've learned a lot!
:-D

That's such a disappointment Nicola! At least you know you've exhausted all avenues, perhaps one day in the future something will turn up.

Thanks for keeping us informed.

Liz x

Our local Vicar was on our quiz team last night and made the very obvious suggestion of contacting Crockford's Directory! Don't know why I didn't make this connection myself, nor why all the other institutions didn't offer that help either. Will now make the search and let you know the results - hmmmmmmmmmmmm.
:-)

Oh bother.
Crockford's was only established in 1858 and so it seems that our chap slipped through the net.
I will contact said local Vicar [above] for more suggestions :-)

Registrar General in Jamaica [see my above] have remained stonily silent despite a prod from me.

Frustratingly, they were my last hope in this search. I think I'll have to edit my thread title to indicate that it's semi-closed; it's not fair on all of you to get involved in all these dead ends .......

Thank you all. :-D

Although Eringobragh has written elsewhere that she's still looking for this marriage. Good on you gal - standing by!
:-D

Nicola....Don't know who to focus on first am all tied up in knots with your family history....Have spent the past couple of hours chasing Alicia Neill Paul Matseders whereabouts...Now I am back to DRM's marriage...not to mention Fred.H.E Vaughans' Baptism...!!

I'm sure you'll drop lucky on at least one of those - you're so persistent, and knowledgeable too.
:-D

Nicola...Managed to access "My Threads" to cross ref. something on one of your previous threads but cannot find any one of your postings going back since forever..
Have you deleted them...?

I've not deleted a thread - and wouldn't know how to!

Okay .Will have another look through but not holding my breath about getting in ..the My Threads function hasn't been working since I don't remember when...