Mary Bush

[Phoenix]

Mary Bush

Marriages:

1 Dec 1742 at St Nicholas Great Yarmouth to Nicholas Hook

23 Sep 1766 to Thomas PELLS Widower of Brinton at Cley. Both made their mark.
Thomas was probably old enough to be her father and died the following year.

16 Nov 1769 at Cley Edward Thompson widower to Mary Pells widow of Brinton

Mary was finally buried
9 August 1809 in Cley, Norfolk, aged 90

No gravestone or MI.

I have found all three marriages, but don't have notes of the last two. I know the first is correct because her son William is buried as son of Nicholas and Mary, formerly Bush.

I assume that her family came from Yarmouth, or Suffolk, or even farther away, but she could have been a local girl, just working away from home.

Why I thought Mary married a Mr Fox, I do not know. The Mary Fox who witnessed Henry Hook's marriage was literate.

Link to son, Henry: http://www.genealogistsforum.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?t=16405&highlight=hook

Link to husband Nicholas: http://www.genealogistsforum.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?p=294218#post294218

[kiterunner]

The second marriage is indexed on FamilySearch: Robert Fox / Mary Hooks, 28 Oct 1764 Yarmouth. But I can't find it in the PR or AT images for Yarmouth St Nicholas.

[Phoenix]

Yarmouth?!! Must be a submitted entry. I thought it was Bale or Thornage - somewhere walking distance from Cley.

[kiterunner]

The submitted entries aren't in that part of FamilySearch, Phoenix. Batch number is I07368-8, film number 1526490, reference ID Item 10-12 p 21.

The film number comes up on their catalogue as:


Parish registers for St. Nicholas' Church, Yarmouth, 1558-1901

Author:
Church of England. St. Nicholas' Church (Yarmouth); Church of England. St. Peter's Church (Yarmouth); Church of England. St. Andrew's Church (Yarmouth); Norfolk and Norwich Record Office (Norwich, England)

But I can't see what items 10-12 are. Oh, I think it must be in the banns, going by the film number. I'll have another try at finding it in the images...hopefully it will lead us to the correct parish for the actual wedding.

[kiterunner]

Hmmm, I've found it in the banns, but unlike the other entries, no date is written in to show that they actually married:

https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-267-12151-23141-78?cc=1416598&wc=92BP-4WY:30456601,29357302,30476401

Banns of Marriage between Robert Fox Batchelor and Mary Hooks Spinster both of this Parish ...14th Oct 1764, 21st Oct 1764, 28th Oct 1764.

I guess it is a different couple, then.

[Phoenix]

Huge apologies for wasting your time, Kite. I have now completely baffled myself as I was convinced that I had a much married Mary Fox in my tree who died at a great age. Now trying to work out who she might have been.