have I got this wrong ?

[garstonite]

My direct ancestor - who married John Merrick b 1787
https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:NPL2-9ZC

I have found a marriage of Samuel Ferrar to Sarah Stephens in Sarnsfield - pretty certain these are Sarah Ferrar parents - if I am right these are my direct ancestors too

https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:N2DT-FP2

a Sarah Stephens baptism in Sarnsfield - 1747 -
https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:JQ1K-33X

BUT - this would make Sarah Stephens 32 on her wedding day ??...a little old
so - could any members with time on their hands have a look please and tell me whether they would add the above finds if it was their tree - or hold fire - especially on Richard and Joan Stephens ??....I am tempted to add them but need advice first
thanks
Allan

[garstonite]

Can someone explain what Unitary Authority means please ?
could this be Richard Stephens - the father of Sarah ?
https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVGJ-XFPB

[Merry]

There's no image on ancestry for the Ferrar-Stephens marriage, but there is a bit more in this transcription:

Samuel Ferrar, Widower, and Sarah Stephens, Spinster, by Banns, 30 Jul 1779. Witnesses--Richard Stephens, Ann Jones.

Book: Marriages 1755--1836. (Marriage)

Collection: Herefordshire: Sarnesfield - Parish Registers, 1660-1897

So Sarah was a spinster and Samuel a widower.

Have you any burial info for either of them?
Do you know how many children Sarah had?

[garstonite]

I can only find the 1 child for Richard and Sarah - the 1747 birth of Sarah Stephens
when Sarah married Samuel Ferrar she had 4 children
Benjamin Ferrar 1780
Ann 1783-84
Samuel 1785
Sarah Ferrar 1789 my direct ancestor..
the only burial I could find was the one in my 2nd post
Thanks Merry ....xx

[Merry]

Don't you think there's some significance in that Richard Stephens is the name on one of the witnesses at the marriage?

[Merry]

Sarah married Samuel Ferrar she had 4 children
Benjamin Ferrar 1780
Ann 1783-84
Samuel 1785
Sarah Ferrar 1789 my direct ancestor..


So she would have been 42 when she had her last known child (or a bit older if she wasn't a baby when she was baptised). Seems reasonable - she might have had more is she had been younger.

[garstonite]

Don't you think there's some significance in that Richard Stephens is the name on one of the witnesses at the marriage?

where did you see that please Merry ??

[kiterunner]

Can someone explain what Unitary Authority means please ?


This explains Herefordshire Unitary Authority:
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:28YfXXkB_bIJ:herefordcitycouncil.go v.uk/html/council_history.html+&cd=7&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=uk

[kiterunner]

This is the transcription on ancestry of the John Merrick / Sarah Ferrar marriage, just to confirm there is a Stephens connection:
18 May 1815 John Merrick, Bachelor, of Norton Canon, and Sarah Ferrar, spinster. Witnesses--Thomas Ferrar, Eleanor Stephens. Lic.
Book: Marriages 1813--1836. (Marriage)
Collection: Herefordshire: Sarnesfield - Parish Registers, 1660-1897

[Merry]

where did you see that please Merry ??

Read post #3 again!

[garstonite]

Thank you both very much .. Herefordshire Unitary Authority:
amalgamation of 137 parish councils and still in force ......so should I assume I do have the right people and put them in my Tree ....I am happy with them but you are more experienced than I am ....what do you think ....( please say yes ...lol)

[kiterunner]

I reckon so, Allan.

[garstonite]

thanks very much ...a good result this morning ....appreciate your help girls .xxx

[vita]

My direct ancestor - who married John Merrick b 1787
https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:NPL2-9ZC

I have found a marriage of Samuel Ferrar to Sarah Stephens in Sarnsfield - pretty certain these are Sarah Ferrar parents - if I am right these are my direct ancestors too

https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:N2DT-FP2

a Sarah Stephens baptism in Sarnsfield - 1747 -
https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:JQ1K-33X

BUT - this would make Sarah Stephens 32 on her wedding day ??...a little old
so - could any members with time on their hands have a look please and tell me whether they would add the above finds if it was their tree - or hold fire - especially on Richard and Joan Stephens ??....I am tempted to add them but need advice first
thanks
Allan

Allan - my great grandfather & his brother both married ladies over 30, so

perhaps it wasn't all that unusual.