Phoenix
04-10-20, 22:23
John Couzens, bachelor married Elizabeth Pulling spinster in St Marys Portsea 3 March 1812. Both otp and both made their marks.
https://search.findmypast.co.uk/record?id=S2%2FGBPRS%2FPORTSMOUTH%2F007907178%2F00 379&parentid=GBPRS%2FPORTSMOUTH%2FMAR%2F00026956%2F1
John had been in Portsmouth since at least 1808 (aged 21), working as a sawyer in the dockyard.
According to censuses, John was born in Bere, Dorset. Now, he is probably the twin baptised in 1790: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/imageviewer/collections/2243/images/32435_239488-00030?backlabel=ReturnSearchResults&queryId=f2e5f45d759ae40373da0025b6b034e9&pId=1832066
However, there was a serious fire in 1788. The parish registers only start then and there are gaps in the bishop transcripts.
Just about every tree on Ancestry shows John having a previous wife, Jane Bellringer: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/imageviewer/collections/2243/images/32435_239488-00212?backlabel=ReturnSearchResults&queryId=1a9e1996d544879146e0cc5903bb0a59&pId=4832340
This John was of Blandford Forum when he married as a bachelor 15 March 1808. And he could write.
This appears to be John and Jane in Blandford in 1841: https://search.findmypast.co.uk/record?id=GBC%2F1841%2F0294%2F0670&parentid=GBC%2F1841%2F0002323343
Of course, that John and Jane could be brother and sister, but it seems unlikely that a writer loses the skill so quickly.
The Ancestry trees give John's parents as Thomas Couzens and Elizabeth Haine, married in Blandford Forum. I cannot see any way I can prove or disprove this. Does anyone have any bright ideas on this? So far as I can tell, the Bere Regis BTs are not available online as images. (John's sons were John, Joseph, Richard, George and William)
https://search.findmypast.co.uk/record?id=S2%2FGBPRS%2FPORTSMOUTH%2F007907178%2F00 379&parentid=GBPRS%2FPORTSMOUTH%2FMAR%2F00026956%2F1
John had been in Portsmouth since at least 1808 (aged 21), working as a sawyer in the dockyard.
According to censuses, John was born in Bere, Dorset. Now, he is probably the twin baptised in 1790: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/imageviewer/collections/2243/images/32435_239488-00030?backlabel=ReturnSearchResults&queryId=f2e5f45d759ae40373da0025b6b034e9&pId=1832066
However, there was a serious fire in 1788. The parish registers only start then and there are gaps in the bishop transcripts.
Just about every tree on Ancestry shows John having a previous wife, Jane Bellringer: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/imageviewer/collections/2243/images/32435_239488-00212?backlabel=ReturnSearchResults&queryId=1a9e1996d544879146e0cc5903bb0a59&pId=4832340
This John was of Blandford Forum when he married as a bachelor 15 March 1808. And he could write.
This appears to be John and Jane in Blandford in 1841: https://search.findmypast.co.uk/record?id=GBC%2F1841%2F0294%2F0670&parentid=GBC%2F1841%2F0002323343
Of course, that John and Jane could be brother and sister, but it seems unlikely that a writer loses the skill so quickly.
The Ancestry trees give John's parents as Thomas Couzens and Elizabeth Haine, married in Blandford Forum. I cannot see any way I can prove or disprove this. Does anyone have any bright ideas on this? So far as I can tell, the Bere Regis BTs are not available online as images. (John's sons were John, Joseph, Richard, George and William)