Missing Marriage

gillyflower

gillyflower

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I wonder if anyone can help.For a few years I have been looking for a marriage. It is for a Henry Fenwick and Isabelle Beattie sometime between 1852 -1854. Please note it is not the June 1853 one in Belford. I have had that cert thinking she may have been married twice. The 1851 census she was a Beattie in 1861 census she was a Fenwick. It was suggested to me that she may have gone over the border to marry. Someone checked the Lamberton Toll marriages for me but found nothing. I believe she was married - also on her death cert it reads Widow of .....
Her Husband married twice he married again in 1873. I have this cert but would very much like to know the date if possible of that elusive first marriage. If anyone can offer any suggestions/ideas I would be very grateful.
 
Gillyflower why do you think the marriage was between 1851 & 1854?
Can you hint at where she was in 1851 please?
Did her death cert. state widow off Henry Fenwick? Any different spelling of her name?
 
I've had a quick perusal of things matrimonial with out any success unless he or she was mistranscribed from a faded image, putting one or both on separate pages. Closest I came was 'Batie' in 1858, but there were several Isabella Baties on 1851 census.
Right now to iron what's dry of yesterday's rained on laundering.
 
I'm wondering whether you've got the birth certificate of any of the children. This could be the cause of your difficulties because you're trying to guess without working systematically.

In theory (but not always in practice), the mother's name on a birth certificate is more informative than the wife's name on a marriage certificate.

See if you can tie down any birth registration (under either surname) and order the certificate (GRO will search for you if necessary).

I think that will help you to move forwards.
 
Hello and many thanks for helping with this brick wall. Her first daughter was born as above on that date At Whalton - and I thought on the 1851 census she was a Beattie Living with her family at Easington Grange Mill, Easington and on the 861 Census she is a Fenwick living with her parents, her husband and some of her children at Shilvington.MealyMoo thanks you got the right transcriptions.
Peter thankyou too This is a gt gt Grandmother I Have My gt Grandmother's birth cert and it does state Isabella Beattie. I also have Isabella's death cert and it definitely states Widow of Henry Fenwick. So I am completely stuck. Henry re-married in 1873. I have that cert too, it was very easy to find, unlike the one I am looking for
 
I Have My gt Grandmother's birth cert and it does state Isabella Beattie
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The exact wording is important. Does it describe the mother as "Isabella Fenwick formerly Beattie"?
 
Not really much help but the Morpeth Herald birth announcements have:
Publication Date: Saturday 29 September 1860:
At Meldon North Side 31st ult. the wife of Mr. Henry Fenwick, joiner, of a daughter.

I presume this would be Mary's birth?
 
And yet Isabella's brother's marriage made the newspaper.

At Belford, 5th inst. Mr. George Beattie, farmer of Cockhill to Miss Mary Frater of Easington.
Published Saturday 16 May 1857.
 
Publication Saturday 20 April 1861.
Mr. Beattie who is "declining farming" sold all his stock and much furniture at auction on Thursday 2 May.

There is a long and interesting list of the items for sale should you have credits at FMP.
 
Many thanks to all the replies. MealyMoo I said he was married in 1873 but it was 1875. Yes it does state widower. Peter yes it does state Isabella Fenwick formerly Beattie. Mutters - yes that was Mary's birth. George married twice. His first marriage was 1847 this was apparently a cross border marriage she died in 1856 - so he didn't waste too much time. {I have never had access to Lamberton Toll Marriages - but I have been told there is no marriage there for an Isabella Beattie and Henry Fenwick] I do have a sub for FMP Mutters . However it doesn't show on the index.. The last census I have on him was 1871 he described himself as ' formerly a farmer' Do you think he became bankrupt?
 
If you click search records along the blue bar near the top of the screen on FMP.
Choose newspapers from the drop down list and then from the index choose British Newspapers. You will find yourself at a search screen and into the keywords enter Morpeth Herald. You need to play with names and dates because there are over 32,000 records.

I don't know if he went bankrupt or not. I only looked very quickly through the Morpeth Herald. There may be other entries with different variations of the spelling. He sold an awful lot of stock. I wonder if he left a will?
There is a death at Morpeth for a George Beattie age 82 in 1880. If that is him he had 20 years to get rid of the money following the 1861 auction. I871 just says he was formerly a farmer so no real clue there.
 
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