Thomas Hodges marriage

[Sue from Southend]

There's a marriage on Pallots for Thomas Hodges and Elizabeth Burley in Westminster. The index gives a year of 1797 but looking at the FMP index I suspect it may be 1794. I wonder if sks would have a look at the FMP image for me, please? Did Thomas sign or make his mark and are there any witnesses listed?

Many thanks

[ElizabethHerts]

Sue, both signed. Married by banns.
Witnesses: Mary Burley, Sam Pride?

[Shona]

St James, Piccadilly

Thomas Hodges and Elizabeth Burley, both of the parish, were married in this church by banns on 12 December 1794. In the presence of Harry?/Mary? Burley, Sam Pride.

[Sue from Southend]

Many thanks Elizabeth and Shona. It doesn't look likes he's my Thomas then. My one made his mark on his daughter's marriage licence

One day I'll find him....

[Shona]

Originally Posted by Sue from Southend

Many thanks Elizabeth and Shona. It doesn't look likes he's my Thomas then. My one made his mark on his daughter's marriage licence

One day I'll find him....

What other clues do you have?

[Sue from Southend]

Shona - This is the link to the TO4G that deals with Thomas http://www.genealogistsforum.co.uk/f...=thomas+hodges
His wife's parents would be on this weeks TO5G if I knew who they were......

Thanks for looking!

[Phoenix]

One thing to consider: cousin's ancestor made his mark on his will, whereas as a young man he had had an excellent signature. I concluded that he had probably had a stroke.

[Shona]

Sue, I was looking at Thomas's daughter, Esther's, marriage records to William Matthews.

The first is this one:

http://search.ancestry.co.uk/iexec?h...c=&pid=7867161

Camberwell, St Giles
William Matthews, of this parish, widower, married Esther Hodges, spinster, in this church by banns, 23 March 1818.

Both signed their names, as did one witness, Rich Kirkwood. The other witness, Sophia Taylor made her mark.

Then there is this record:

Finsbury St Luke:

http://search.ancestry.co.uk/iexec?h...c=&pid=6227514

William Matthews of this parish of St Leonard, Shoreditch, widower, and Esther Hodges, of this parish, spinster and minor, married by licence with consent of Thomad Hodges, father of this said minor, this 24th day of December 1818.

Both signed their names as did the witnesses - but I can't work out who the witnesses are.

I can't see where Thomas made his mark.

[Sue from Southend]

Shona - I have a copy of the actual marriage licence, which is not on line, on which he makes his mark.
The two marriages have been noted before in yet another thread
http://www.genealogistsforum.co.uk/f...=esther+hodges

Phoenix- I had rather hoped that by looking for a Thomas Hodges that made his mark I had a better chance of finding a marriage and now you've made me think again . Thomas would probably have been getting on in years by 1818 so who knows what infirmity he may have had?