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Facts and Events
Mary Parsons was baptised on 1st March 1789 at St Paul's Walden in Hertfordshire, the fourth of seven children of Martha Parsons formerly Brown and her husband Edward Parsons.
 Mary's signature from her marriage Mary died in 1827, aged 38, leaving Henry looking after probably five surviving children, the youngest of whom was only a few months old. Henry outlived Mary by at least 35 years, but does not appear to have remarried.
References
- ↑ Church of England. St Paul's Walden Parish Registers. (Hertford: Hertfordshire Archives and Local Studies).
1789: Mar[ch] 1 Mary, Daughter of Edward & Martha Parsons
This baptism has been linked to the Mary Parsons who married Henry Cain in 1808 on the basis that it is at approximately the right time to match the age quoted on the adult Mary's burial record, and in the same parish in which she married, had all her children baptised and was buried. There is no sign of the Mary Parsons baptised in 1789 having died young, nor married anyone else.
When Mary married in 1808 one of the witnesses was a William Parsons. Presumably this was not the ten or eleven year old younger brother of the Mary baptised in 1789. As far as can be established there was only one adult William Parsons living locally around that time, at Rye End on the borders of Kimpton and Knebworth parishes, just south of St Paul's Walden parish. Despite sharing the same surname, it would appear that he was not a close relative - but just over a year after witnessing Mary's marriage he would go on to marry Mary's older sister Elizabeth, thus becoming her brother-in-law.
- ↑ Burials register, in Church of England. St Paul's Walden Parish Registers. (Hertford: Hertfordshire Archives and Local Studies).
| BURIALS in the Parish of St Pauls Walden in the County of Hertford in the Year 1827 | | No. | Name | Abode | When buried | Age | By whom the Ceremony was performed | | 278 | Mary Cain | Whitewell | Oct[obe]r 24 | 40 y[ea]rs | Cha[rle]s Chauncey, Vicar |
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