Family:William Kempson and Charlotte Stanton (1)

No plausible marriage has been found for William Kempson and Charlotte Stanton using those names. (The William Stanton and Charlotte Hemmings who married in Totternhoe in 1852 were a different couple - that William was uncle of this one.) The marriage of William Kempson and "Mary Ann" Stanton in Southwark in 1845 looks like it could be them, albeit with two mistakes. Firstly, the bride's name was Charlotte, not Mary Ann, but as both bride and groom marked rather than signed the register they may not have noticed if the clerk had made a mistake on the bride's name. Secondly, the bride's father's name is given as Henry Stanton. As the married Charlotte Kempson gave her place of birth as both Great Bedwyn in Wiltshire and Hungerford in Berkshire, we look to the parish registers in those areas, and find that there was a Charlotte Stanton baptised at Great Bedwyn in 1823, whose family later moved to Hungerford, appearing there in the 1841 and 1851 censuses. However, that Charlotte's father was called Samuel Stanton. That said, the Charlotte baptised in 1823 did have a step-father whose first name was Henry, so it is possible that the father's name was mistakenly recorded with her step-father's first name.

1. ↑ Marriage register, in Church of England. Parish of St George the Martyr, Borough (Surrey). Parish Registers, 1602–1965. (London: London Metropolitan Archives).

   1845. Marriage solemnized at the Church in the Parish of St George the Martyr Southwark in the County of Surrey
   No.	When Married	Name and Surname	Age	Condition	Rank or Profession	Residence at the Time of Marriage	Father's Name and Surname	Rank or Profession of Father
   350	April 28th	William Kempson	22	Bachelor	In the Army	Borough Road	George Kempson	Carpenter
   		Mary Ann Stanton	22	Spinster	-	Borough Road	Henry Stanton	Servant
   Married in the Parish Church according to the Rites and Ceremonies of the Established Church by Banns by me, Henry O'Neele Curate
   This Marriage was solemnized between us		William Kempson his X mark		in the Presence of us		James King
   		Mary Ann Stanton her X mark				Sophia Groves her X mark