Please help me find an elusive 4x great grandfather

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Blueyeshorlicks

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Hi there, I'm a new member from Cambridge UK. I
I've taken over my (now deceased) Mum's family history search.
There's so much about her family, obviously, but my dad's has all sorts of mysteries false leads/names etc.
I've been researching and sending off for birth/marriage/death certs. But this grandfather born 1764, who is very well documented in court papers etc. has apparently just appeared from no-where!
I'm wondering whether both of them, wife and husband met abroad?
Their names were George Humphrys 1764 and Jane Jeremiah born 1765
Married at St Brides, Fleet Street, in Holborn 1789
He died in 1834 aged 70, she aged 57 in 1820
He was a Lawyer resident at Sergeants Inn when they married in1789. Lived at 33, Red Lion Square. Had his Chambers in Church Yard Court, Temple Inn.
As you can see, I've spent a lot of time on him.
I've guessed at both sets of parents, but only a visit to National Archives will confirm this.
If anyone has any ideas or had a similar problem.......?
 
My situation is slightly different, BlueEyes, but still very similar.

My grandmother was known throughout her life as May Josephine. That was the name she used when she was married, it was the name on the birth certificates of all her children, and it was the name we all knew her by from the time we were children. Because of that it's the name that appears on her death certificate (death registered by my grandfather).

I didn't start my research until many years after her death and her birth just didn't seem to have happened. It wasn't until I did a search for children born with just the surname and her mother's name that I found her. She was an illegitimate child, born to a woman who had married and left her husband and moved into an adulterous arrangement with the man we knew was her father. She had been registered under her mother's married name, the birth was marked illegitimate, and her name was registered as Mary Frances. If it hadn't been for the mother's maiden name being shown and the birth dates matching I would never have found her.

Might it be worth searching with limited criteria just to see what appears?

Good luck with it - I know how frustrating these things are!!
 
Well I can find Articles of Clerkship for what look like 2 of George HUMPHREYS' sons George & Josiah, on Ancestry, dated 1818 and 1822 respectively which both mention Red Lion Square but I was hoping to find something for George snr. I have also found what could be his PCC Will on Ancestry, given that he mentions a son Josiah whom he makes sole Executor, but that does not mention any helpful relatives such as brothers or sisters. Will keep looking though.

Janet
 
How sure are you he was born in 1764? I can only find one birth around London for that year which is Baptism 22nd April,1764, at St Olave, Southwark, Surrey Parents are Thomas & Elizabeth.
 
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