Sarah Coombes

[Phoenix]

Sarah is born c 1819 in Dorset per the 1851 census: http://search.ancestry.co.uk/iexec?htx=View&r=an&dbid=8860&iid=MDXHO107_1513_1513-0455&fn=Sarah&ln=Coombe&st=r&ssrc=&pid=2723369

Sarah marries in Holborn, London in 1852 to Thomas Lanning. Her father is given as William Coombes, a wheelwright. The witnesses are her new brother & sister in law. She dies before 1861 from a miscarriage, informant part of the Lanning family, so I have no idea where in Dorset she comes from.

Although this branch of the Lanning family has been in London for over 50 years, I think they originated from Kington Magna in Dorset.

Ancestry has the baptism of a Sarah, daughter of William & Harriet Coombes in 1819 in Buckhorn WEston, Dorset. William is a carpenter. There is a public tree on Ancestry which marries this Sarah off to a George Perrot 7 June 1851. No children, no census refrences. And I cannot find this marriage.

Can anyone find this marriage? Or a better candidate for Sarah's father?

[Merry]

Does her age on the death cert match her age in 1851?

[Phoenix]

I don't have the cert to hand, but it would only be a year either way. I've been concentrating on trying to find a William with a suitable occupation.

[Merry]

Thee's an awful lot to look at once you leave out the E in Coombes! lol

Looking on FMP 1851 (I realise he may well be dead by then)....William Coombes (variable spelling for both names) occ Wheel* or Carp* throws up nothing in Dorset and none born in Dorset.

[Phoenix]

This is William in 1841: HO107 piece 293 folio 7/8 page 11 - Down as Wm!

There are Perretts next door, so it does make sense - I just can't find a wedding.

[crawfie]

William and Harriet Coombs had a few children, and Harriet is on the 1851 as a widow

http://search.ancestry.co.uk/iexec?htx=view&r=5538&dbid=8860&iid=SOMHO107_1931_1931-0816&fn=Job&ln=Coombs&st=r&ssrc=&pid=7311249

However, look at who the neighbours are - any connection?

Linda

[kiterunner]

That public tree on ancestry shows the George Perrot / Sarah Coombs marriage as 7th Jun 1851 at Buckhorn Weston, but marriage no 36 in the Buckhorn Weston PR on ancestry is 28 Apr 1851 and no 37 is 9 Oct 1851. I don't know whether there was anywhere else to get married in Buckhorn Weston, though.

[Phoenix]

A George Perr* is baptised in Buckhoen Weston, on the same page as Sarah.

George Perrett and Sarah b BW are in Gillingham in 1861. But I can't find their marriage.

[kiterunner]

A George Perr* is baptised in Buckhoen Weston, on the same page as Sarah.

George Perrett and Sarah b BW are in Gillingham in 1861. But I can't find their marriage.

Do you mean the couple who are in Wincanton, Somerset, in 1861, Phoenix? George age 40 born Gillingham, Dorset, and Sarah age 45 born Buckhorn Weston. Children John George 12, Sarah Jane 10 and Elizabeth M 6, all born Gillingham Dorset, so they should be in Gillingham in 1851.

[kiterunner]

This is that couple in 1851 at Forest Side, Gillingham:
George Perratt Head Mar 30 Farmer... Dorset Gillingham
Sarah Do Wife Mar 35 Do Buckhorn Weston
John G Do Son 2 Do Gillingham
Sarah J Do Daur 4 mo Do Do

[crawfie]

George Perrott age 2 is buried in BW on 30/12/1820. Abode is Gillingham.

Looking at that couple above in Forest Side in 1851, that Sarah would have been born ca 1816. Sarah Gibbs bap 26/5/1816 in BW. In Mar Q 1847 in Mere district, Sarah Gibbs possibly married George Perrett. (the other two on the page are George Gibbs and Sarah Perrett!). Would match with first child born ca 1848.

Could be a possibility.

Just had another check - George s/o George and Sarah Perrot bap 14/2/1819 BW, dies 30/12/1820. George Perrot s/o George and Sarah bap 18/3/1821 Gillingham. Matches with the one married to Sarah above.

No trace of the 1851 marriage though!

Linda

[Phoenix]

Yes, Kite. If John is legitimate (a problem that never bothered "my" Sarah Coombes!) then the marriage was before 1851.

John George's birth is on freebmd Jun 1849 Shaftesbury RD

People are researching him on GR, but not Sarah Coombes, so I am hoping and praying it is a false trail, Grrrrrrrrrr.

[Phoenix]

Thank you, Linda!

You are quite right: people on GR reasearching John George Perrett are also after Sarah Gibb from Buckhorn Weston.

I bet that date relates to someone else entirely.

[crawfie]

One other thing I noticed on the tree on ancestry is that William Coombs mother is Sarah Lanning from Kington Magna. There could be some connection there.

[Phoenix]

Thank you again, Linda!

Everything I look at confirms me in my hunch that Thomas' family did originate in Kington Magna and that several of the marriages were between families who already knew each other.