Genealogy Chat

I have one side of my family back now to a marriage in 1797, and now i dont have a clue where to go or what to do. They were in Norfolk, does this basically mean traveling from place to place to visit libraries and churches?

What are their names, where did you find the marriage?

I think the Norfolk Record Office in Norwich will have everything you will need to look at. (Or perhaps it is called Norfolk Archives) Kate.

No, right first time Kate - and very posh it is too! Well, I have to nip off now - shame we didnt get a quicker answer, it would have given me an excuse NOT to rake up 350 feet of hedge trimmings.

I dont have a car lol, is there anyway i can do online or by email? I found the marriage record on a scanned in scrap of paper on ancestry*com (i think), i cant find anything else for them. They are Thomas varney and sarah darbyshire would have been born maybe about 1777 assuming they were around 20 when they married. From Thetford, Norfolk

Just so you know the scanned in scrap of paper is in fact an extract from Pallot's Marriage Index for England: 1780 - 1837 ... and it appears the marriage took place in Nottingham - so have you got the right thomas Varney ??

yes i think thats where i found it originally

THOMAS VARNEY Male Family -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Event(s): Birth: Christening: Death: Burial: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Marriages: Spouse: SARAH DARBY Family Marriage: 22 JAN 1797 Saint Nicholas, Nottingham, Nottingham, England -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Messages: Extracted marriage record for locality listed in the record. The source records are usually arranged chronologically by the marriage date. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Source Information: Batch No.: Dates: Source Call No.: Type: Printout Call No.: Type: M060513 1791 - 1812 0503804 Film NONE Sheet: 00 is this the one you found?

from Ancestry (Pallotts) Name: Thos Varney Spouse: Sarah Darbyshire Marriage Date: 1797 Parish: Nottingham St Nicholas

And what makes you think this is your Thomas and Sarah, if they came from Thetford? Did they move to Nottingham? Kate.

that looks like the right pair, now how would i get back further?

Well, can I ask again, why you think that is them if you say they came from Norfolk? Did they move from Norfolk to Nottingham? If you really think it is them, I could look the marriage up at the Nottinghamshire Archives for you the next time I go and see if there is any extra information in the entry. But if you have a Thomas and Sarah who lived in Norfolk and had their children in Norfolk I would guess that the Nottingham couple isn't them? Kate.

because on one record i came across for them mentioned st nicholas, thats all that made me think they were right

see this is what i cant grasp, when records become this sparse, how can you really know its right? I really want to get it right like im sure everyone does but how can you know with so few records

I'm sure I'm being thick here, but can you please just fill me in a bit on what you already have about them? Did they move to Nottingham from Norfolk and have their children in Nottingham? Or were their children born in Norfolk? Or what? Kate.

Are you getting mixed up with St Nicholas church in Great Yarmouth?

all i know is this...thomas and sarah varney had a child henry varney in 1805, he married a sarah carter in 1836. Now all i have done is try to go back from henry on ancestry*com and i came up with thomas and sarah, thomas is a name passed many times in my family. all i found on the records for them was mention of thetford and nott, this st nicholas. i have no way of knowing if this is the right people, which was what led me to my question, about where i go from here and how i actually find out, as the record will be late 1700's

Okay, and where was Henry born, please? Kate.

Gt amwell in hertfordshire

Presumably we are only looking for a Thomas Varney marrying a Sarah X? You don't know her maiden name, by some unusual source? When was the first child born? Merry