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Facts and Events
Mary Gelder was baptised on 2nd September 1753 at Whaplode in Lincolnshire, daughter of Elizabeth Gelder, formerly Anderson, and her husband Joseph Gelder.
On 4th February 1779, aged 25, she married a labourer called Vincent Preston at Long Sutton, about seven miles east of Whaplode. He was a widower; his first wife had died in 1776, and he appears to have had four surviving children from his first marriage.
Mary and Vincent went on to have another seven children baptised at Long Sutton between 1779 and 1792, but at least five of them died young.
Mary and Vincent have yet to be traced after the baptism of their youngest son in 1792. There was a widow called Mary Preston who married in Long Sutton in 1801 which may be her.
References
- ↑ Church of England. Parish Church of Whaplode (Lincolnshire). Parish registers, 1559-1953. (Salt Lake City, Utah: Genealogical Society of Utah, 1966-1990).
1753 / Sept[ember] 2 Mary Daughter of Joseph Gelder by Elizabeth
This baptism has been linked to the Mary Gelder who married in Long Sutton in 1779 on the basis that one of the witnesses to her marriage was a Joseph Gelder, and she also gave two of her daughters the middle name Anderson, which was the maiden name of the mother of the girl baptised in 1753 (Joseph Gelder and Elizabeth Anderson had married at Whaplode in 1749).
- Marriages register, in Church of England. Parish Church of Long Sutton (Lincolnshire). Parish registers, 1669-1886. (Lincoln: Lincolnshire Archives, 1990).
No. 367} Lawrence Wildblood of this Parish Widower & Mary Preston also of this parish Widow were Married in this Church by Banns duly published this 23d Day of October in the Year One Thousand Eight Hundred and One By me Cha[rle]s Jerram Curate
This Marriage was solemnized between Us {Lawrence Wildblood his X mark / Mary Preston her X mark
In the Presence of {Joseph Kent / Will[ia]m Cooper
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