Baconsthorpe? I'd never have thought of looking there.* The names (especially the surname "Lane"), home parishes, and dates fit, but I wonder why they married there. I hope to be able to get the licence affidavit, if it still exists, to see if it might answer that question.

But that's for a future post. Right now I want to say thank you to Jean, the FreeREG volunteer who took the time to contact me about a marriage record that's eluded me for months … and I also want to thank the unknown volunteers who are freely giving of their time to transcribe that record and thousands like it.

If you're not familiar with this wonderful resource, here's a brief description from the What is FreeREG page:

Our objective is to provide free Internet searches of baptism, marriage, and burial records, which have been extracted from parish registers and non-conformist church records in the UK. The recording of baptisms, marriages and burials in parish registers began in England in 1538 and is separate and distinct from the civil registration process that began in 1837. (The latter is covered by our companion project FreeBMD) Our aim is to make it easier for researchers, no matter where they are in the world, to locate a specific record relating to their ancestor within a parish register.

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What is possible with FreeREG is for an individual researcher to enter an ancestor's name, specify a search for a baptism, marriage or burial, state a date range to search, state a county, (and optionally, narrow it down to one town or village), and then search the database for the match using those criteria.

Again, my thanks to Jean and her FreeREG colleagues. One final note - a tip for searching that Jean passed along to me: It's best to tick the soundex box for the surname, leave the Christian name field empty, and enter a date range if you expect a lot of hits. This is because transcribers are instructed to transcribe as written, with abbreviations, spelling variants, etc., but there is no soundex on the Christian name search like there is on the surname name search.

Back when I had an Ancestry.com subscription, I saw a few trees that listed a 1747 marriage in Shipham (sic) for William & Elizabeth. Once I found baptism records in Stiffkey starting in 1739, however, I knew it was very unlikely they were the same couple. But after I made the post about William & Elizabeth's children, Michele Ryan left a comment saying she had seen information that marriage took place in 1737. That, of course, put a different light on things.

So this morning, I started looking through the Shipdham registers to see if I could find out which year the marriage took place.

I found no marriage in 1737, but I did find the 1747 marriage. I can't get the direct link to the image to work, but on the very last image (253 of 253) in the Shipdham Baptisms, Marriages, Burials 1558-1804 (NRO PD 337/1) is this record:

Marriages 1747

William Jairy of Mattishall(?) Single & Elizabeth Sherey of same by Licence 20 Sept.

So I guess we're back to square one as regards the William & Elizabeth Jary who started baptising children in Stiffkey in 1739. Sigh.

The next place to look may be Binham. That was Elizabeth Jary's home when she died, according to the Stiffkey register.

Source: Shipdham Parish Registers, Baptisms & Burials 1558-1804; Marriages 1558-1753. Norfolk Record Office, PD 337/1. Image online at http://pilot.familysearch.org - England, Norfolk Parish Registers, Shipdham Baptisms, Marriages, Burials 1558-1804, Image 253 of 253. Accessed 25 April 2010.

If the "Mann" household is seperate from Wm Warnes' House hold, why is Wm Warnes shown as Head against Thomas and Elizabeth Mann?The Wm Jary here is probably the son of Jacob and Mary--Davison--Jary, b. abt 1819, and apprenticed to either Wm Warnes or Thomas Mann, but who is the Wm Jary aged 15,--- b. abt 1826?--- in the Susan Starling Household?

regards, Bob

Bob's question was in regard to this household:

27	High St	Wm Warnes	M	60	Mariner	Y	(Self)
		Rose	F	40		Y	Wm Warnes	End of family mark (/) after line
		Thomas Mann	M	37	Mariner	Y	Wm Warnes
		Elizabeth Mann	F	26		Y	Wm Warnes
		Wm Jary	M	21	Sea App	Y	Wm Warnes?	See below

Page	Name	Age	Comments
27	Wm Jary	21	(Mann household) There is an end of dwelling mark (//) on Elizabeth Mann's line, but no digit in "Inhabited" column next to Wm Jary's name to indicate a new household.

Here is an excerpt of the census page showing the entries (click the image to enlarge it):

Excerpt from 1841 Blakeney census: the Wm Warnes household

I interpreted the single mark through the first two letters of Thomas Mann's name as an "end of family" mark, whereas the double lines on the line with Elizabeth Mann's name look like an "end of household" mark to me. That makes me think that the Manns lived with Wm & Rose Warnes; two families in one household. I haven't researched this family, but I suspect that Elizabeth Mann may have been the daughter of Wm Warnes. (Or perhaps Rose Warnes's sister?)

If it is indeed an "end of household" mark at Elizabeth Mann's name, I would have expected to see a digit in the "Inhabited" column next to Wm Jary's name (similar to the one next to Wm Warnes's name) to indicate the start of a new household. But there is no mark in that column, and this is why I put a question mark in the table when I transcribed it. It's not clear to me whether Wm Jary was part of the Warnes household, or if he lived by himself.

I don't think that this William Jary was the son of Jacob & Mary Davison Jary, however. From the hand-written index of the Stiffkey Register (NRO PD492, HMN6-364: F-L): "Jarey, William son of Jacob & Mary, buried 16 Apr 1819, aged 2 weeks." So I don't know who this William Jary was. We have no other William Jarys in our file that come close to being the right age. (That's not to say we don't have the data somewhere; I just may not have put it into our iFamily file yet. That's one of the reasons we started this site, to catch things like this.)

In answer to Bob's second question, I think the Wm Jary enumerated in Susan Starling's household may have been her nephew, William Richard Shepherd Jary, born 2 October 1823, and christened 5 October 1823 in Blakeney. He was the son of Susan's brother, John Jary (b ca 1800) and his wife, Peggy Baines. (Blakeney Baptisms 1813-1840; NRO PD619; MF691/30). This William would have been about 18 years old, but remember that the 1841 enumerators' instructions were to record ages from 15 and under 20 years as 15 years. Those instructions weren't followed in many instances, but perhaps they were in this one.

Daughter: Margaret Stirges NEWBEGIN
Born: 20 Feb 1811 at Cley-next-the-Sea, Norfolk, England [11]
Baptised: 22 Feb 1811 at Cley-next-the-Sea, Norfolk, England [11]

Daughter: Maria NEWBEGIN
Baptised: 11 Feb 1813 at Cley-next-the-Sea, Norfolk, England [1o, 11]

Son: Thomas NEWBEGIN
Baptised: 16 Oct 1814 at Cley-next-the-Sea, Norfolk, England [10]

Son: Francis NEWBEGIN
Baptised: 09 May 1816 at Cley-next-the-Sea, Norfolk, England [10]

Daughter: Maria NEWBEGIN
Baptised: 09 Aug 1817 at Cley-next-the-Sea, Norfolk, England [10]

Daughter: Hannah Matilda NEWBEGIN
Baptised: 11 Apr 1819 at Cley-next-the-Sea, Norfolk, England [10]

Son: Horatio NEWBEGIN
Baptised: 13 Nov 1820 at Cley-next-the-Sea, Norfolk, England [10]
Spouse: Catherine JARY Peeps (1811 - ) [12]

Son: Nevison Stirgess NEWBEGIN
Baptised: 26 Apr 1822 at Cley-next-the-Sea, Norfolk, England [10]

Son: Zachariah NEWBEGIN
Baptised: 24 Dec 1823 at Cley-next-the-Sea, Norfolk, England [10]
Died: aft Mar 1851 [13]
Spouse: Maryann (Unknown) (abt 1826 - ) [13]

Daughter: Roda Matilda NEWBEGIN
Baptised: 11 Oct 1825 at Cley-next-the-Sea, Norfolk, England [10]

Sources

Note: Not all of the sources below were used in this post, but I copied the list over from the census article so the numbers would match between the two. There are additional sources at the bottom of this list (numbers 11-13) that weren't used in the census article.

• [1] Stiffkey Register Index. NRO. PD492. HMN6-364: F-L
• [2] Blakeney Parish Registers Marriages 1813-1837. NRO. PD619. MF692/4
• [3] Blakeney Parish Registers Baptisms & Burials 1807 - 1812. NRO. PD619. MF691/29
• [4] Morston Parish Registers. NRO PD478. 1700-1812: Registration of Baptisms 1700-1811; Registration of Marriages 1701-1754; Burials 1700-1812. (Microfiche)
• [5] Blakeney Parish Registers: Baptisms 1813-1840 PD619 MF691/30
• [6] Marriage certificate: Thomas Dew & Jemima Jary. GRO. 1858 Mar Erpingham. Vol 4b, Page 85, Entry no. 127.
• [7] NRO. Probate 1800-1857. Archdeaconry of Norwich Court, 1813; Probate of William Cozens. Microfilm.
• [8] Norfolk Marriages. Hamlin, Philip. Norfolk Family History Society. 2002. CD-ROM.
• [9] Morston Parish Registers Baptisms 1813-1900. NRO. PD478. MF1000/11
• [10] Cley-Next-the-Sea Parish Registers: Baptisms 1813-1841. NRO. PD270 MF694/22
• [11] Cley-Next-the-Sea Parish Registers: Baptisms & Burials 1779-1814. NRO. PD270 MF694/21
• [12] Blakeney Parishes Register Marriages 1837-1900. NRO. PD619 MF692/5
• [13] 1851 England Census

Update 20 May 2010: A new version of the image & PDF file is available. Thanks go to Robert Price for pointing out that I had incorrect marriage information for Edward Murrell Baines (son of Edward Baley Baines). The new image & PDF file have the correct information for his marriage, as well as that of his cousin, Edward Murrell Baines (son of Murrell Baines).

The post about the 1841 Blakeney census led me to revisit the 1837 marriage of Jacob Jary (son of Lane & Anne Southgate Jary)[1] and Sarah Baines, which was witnessed by John Baines and Deborah Baines.[2] Jacob & Sarah Jary had a daughter the following year and named her Deborah,[3] so I figured the name was significant in the Baines family.

We have some of the Blakeney parish registers on microfilm, so I started looking for Baines baptisms. I soon found the record of the birth and christening of Sarah Claxson Baines, daughter of "Wm & Mary Baines late Claxson" in 1817.[3] I also found several other baptisms and christenings of children of this couple, including that of a son, John, in 1812,[5] and a daughter, Deborah, in 1819,[3] who were probably the wedding witnesses.

I also found several records of the children of another Baines couple, John & Sarah (Murrell) Baines. I kept looking, and soon found the baptism record for William, son of "John & Sarah Banes late Murrel" in August 1792.[4] This couple also christened two daughters with the name Deborah, both of whom died in childhood.[4]

It became apparent that I was looking at multiple generations of the Baines family, and it didn't take long to get confusing. I decided to start a chart to help me visualise all the connections. (Click the image for a larger version; a zoomable PDF is available for download here.)

Descendants of John Baines & Sarah Murrell

The chart contains two generations of the descendants of John and Sarah Murrell Baines. The information in it was taken from parish registers and the 1841, 1851, and 1861 England censuses. It is by no means complete or definitive, and we welcome corrections and/or additions. (We're also happy to furnish complete source citations to researchers of this family; just drop us an email.)

Going back to the name Deborah, what this chart does not show is that William and Deborah Warnes, late Baines, named a son Frederic DeRidder Warnes in Feb 1812.[5]

In December of that year, Fradrik and Mary Baines DeRidder baptised a daughter, Maria.[5]

Naming their child Frederic DeRidder Warnes suggests that William and Deborah Baines Warnes had a close relationship with Fradrik and Mary Baines DeRidder. I suspect that Deborah and Mary were sisters, and that John Baines, husband of Sarah Murrell, may have been their brother.

Estimating his year of birth from the 1841 census, John Baines would have been born around 1765. I have looked back into the mid-1700s in the Blakeney registers, but the earliest Baines baptism I have found (so far) has been the one mentioned earlier of William Baines, son of John & Sarah Murrell Baines, in 1792. As our microfilm collection grows (hint to Santa), we may find them in one of the surrounding parishes.

Sources:

• [1] Morston Parish Registers Baptisms 1813-1900. NRO. PD478. MF1000/11
• [2] Blakeney Parish Registers Marriages 1813-1837. NRO. PD619. MF692/4
• [3] Blakeney Parish Registers: Baptisms 1813-1840. NRO. PD619 MF691/30
• [4] Blakeney General Register 1789-1809. NRO. PD619. MF691/28
• [5] Blakeney Parish Registers Baptisms & Burials 1807 - 1812. NRO. PD619. MF691/29

The census was to be a list of all persons who spent the night of 6 June 1841 in the house, not necessarily of all persons who lived in that house. If a man was at sea overnight, he was probably not listed in his household with the rest of his family.

Page numbers are as printed on the images. In the interest of readability, long comments are noted below the main table.

This will be an ongoing project, and I'll update it as our research catches up.

Comments

*Great page on enumerators' instructions here

Sources

• [1] Stiffkey Register Index. NRO. PD492. HMN6-364: F-L
• [2] Blakeney Parish Registers Marriages 1813-1837. NRO. PD619. MF692/4
• [3] Blakeney Parish Registers Baptisms & Burials 1807 - 1812. NRO. PD619. MF691/29
• [4] Morston Parish Registers. NRO PD478. 1700-1812: Registration of Baptisms 1700-1811; Registration of Marriages 1701-1754; Burials 1700-1812. (Microfiche)
• [5] Blakeney Parish Registers: Baptisms 1813-1840 PD619 MF691/30
• [6] Marriage certificate: Thomas Dew & Jemima Jary. GRO. 1858 Mar Erpingham. Vol 4b, Page 85, Entry no. 127.
• [7] NRO. Probate 1800-1857. Archdeaconry of Norwich Court, 1813; Probate of William Cozens. Microfilm.
• [8] Norfolk Marriages. Hamlin, Philip. Norfolk Family History Society. 2002. CD-ROM.
• [9] Morston Parish Registers Baptisms 1813-1900. NRO. PD478.  MF1000/11
• [10] Cley-Next-the-Sea Parish Registers: Baptisms 1813-1841 PD270 MF694/22

We will add to this as we find more information. Right now we're especially looking for Willliam's parents and Elizabeth's maiden name. If you can help, please contact us.

Chart showing the William Jary family

Tombstone of Bartholomew Jary, Cley St Margaret's

Bartholomew Jary was (we think) the son of John Jary and Ann Savage, who are also buried nearby.

In 1836, the year he died, he was the landlord of a beer house that later became known as the Queen Victoria Pub in Cley-next-the-Sea. We don't know when he began this business, but the passage of the Beer House Act of 1830 is probably relevant. He willed his freehold dwelling to his sister, Mary Ann Jary, and she apparently took over the business (for more information, please download the PDF file in "John & Ann Jary. And John & Ann Jary.")

The image below is a timeline of the all the events in Jemima Jary Dew's life which we have been able to document to date. Seventeen events. That's not much to go on in trying to reconstruct a lifetime.

Documented events in Jemima Jary's life

Still, these seventeen lines give us a glimpse of Jemima's life. She was thirty-three when she married Thomas Dew, who was 41 at the time. According to their marriage certificate, Thomas was a bachelor, and Jemima was a spinster. Thomas's occupation was given as "Mariner" and there was a ditto mark below that for Jemima's occupation. Presumably, then, they were both mariners when they got married. (Image excerpt & discussion of Jemima's occupation here.)

There are so many questions hidden in these seventeen lines.

Why hadn't either of them married earlier? There could have been any number of reasons. I like to think it was because they were waiting for each other.*

What caused the deaths of their infant sons? They were both buried on the same day; did they both die on the same day? What happened? Was it illness? A fire? Were both Thomas and Jemima there when they died, or was Thomas at sea and did Jemima have to endure it alone, then break the horrible news to Thomas when he came back into port?

It appears that Jemima and Thomas moved to Blakeney between the time of the 1861 census and the birth of their son, Jacob Jary Dew, in 1864. Her mother died in 1863 in Cley-next-the-Sea, so the move could have been after that. What prompted the move?

Jemima died when their son was only five years old. The cause of death was tuberculosis, so she was most likely ill for some time before her death. What must that time have been like for the family? Who took care of her? Did she know she was probably going to die and leave a young son? Was she part of the decision that Jacob should live with his aunt, Mary Taylor Dew Irland, or did Thomas decide that after her death?

And what became of Thomas after Jemima's death? Did he remarry? We have been unable to find him so far  in documents between Jemima's death in 1869 and his own death in late December 1880 at the Union Workhouse and burial at Blakeney in January 1881.

Jemima and Thomas had about eleven years of marriage together before her death. It's probably safe to assume that for at least part of that time, Thomas was at sea, hence Jemima's enumeration in the 1861 census in her mother's household. Presumably, then, there were some lonely days and nights for both Jemima and Thomas. In that respect, their lives probably weren't much different from those of their neighbours.

We know they endured tragedy with the deaths of their sons, and there had to have been sadness and fear as Jemima fell ill and it became evident that she was going to die.  I hope they had times of great joy during those eleven years as well.

Sources:

• 1851 England Census. The National Archives, Kew. District 5b, Cley-next-the-Sea. Household 52.  [Class:  HO107; Piece: 1809; Folio: 709; Page: 13; GSU roll: 207461-207462.] (Image from Ancestry.com)
• 1861 England Census. The National Archives, Kew. District 12, Cley-next-the-Sea. Household 156. [RG9; Piece:  1203; Folio:  166; Page:  22; GSU roll:  542774.] (Image from Ancestry.com)
• 1871 England Census The National Archives, Kew. [Class: RG10; Piece: 1854; Folio: 23; Page: 20; GSU roll: 838814.] (Image from Ancestry.com)
• Marriage certificate: Thomas Dew & Jemima Jary. GRO. 1858 Mar Erpingham. Vol 4b, Page 85, Entry no. 127.
• Marriage certificate: Samuel Jarvis & Adelaide Jary. GRO. 1854 Mar Erpingham Vol 4b, Page 97
• Cley Next the Sea Parish Registers: Burials 1855–1908. PD270 MF695/5. P10: No 80 & P11: No 81
• Death certificate: Jemima Dew. GRO. 1869 Dec Walsingham. Vol 4b, Page 197.
• Cley Next the Sea Parish Registers: Burials 1855–1908. NRO PD270 MF695/5 P 20, No 159
• Death certficate: Thomas Dew. GRO. 1881 Mar Walsingham. Vol 4b, Page 211.
• Blakeney Parish Register: Burials 1855 - 1900. NRO. PD619 MF692/7. Page 41 and Page 67; 1880-1.

*(It should probably be noted that the engineer half of this blog - the direct descendant of Thomas and Jemima - cringed at the mushiness of that sentence. But it's staying.)

Now I'm beginning to wonder about that. I'd been planning to write about William, Susanna, and their children, so when I realised that today was Tombstone Tuesday, I figured this would be a good time to do so.

Susanna's tombstone lies directly behind, and very close to, those of William Jary (senior) and his wife, Elizabeth, and of their son, Andew Jary, and his wife, Catherine (Warnes) Jary.

Tombstones of William, Elizabeth, Andrew, Catherine, and Susanna Jary

Here is a closeup of Susanna's tombstone:

Tombstone of Susanna Jary, Stiffkey St John.

It's a little hard to read, so here is a cross-processed image that may be easier to make out (click either image for a larger version.)

Crossprocessed image of Susanna Jary's tombstone

The wording looks like this:

"In memory of Susanna the Wife of William Jary Jun'r who died May 12 1774 Aged 36 Years"

Hang on ... 1774?

I noticed this as I was preparing the picture of Susanna's tombstone for this post. That's the reason for the cross-processing above. I was trying to bring out the last digit in the year as clearly as possible. It certainly looks like a four to me, not a five.

The year struck me, because in my previous post, I talked about how the parish register and AT have her burial as having occurred in 1775. Could I have been wrong when I wrote that post?

I went back and checked the notes we made at the NRO when we looked at the hand-written index to the parish register transcript, and at the microfiche of the PR itself and the AT. All the notes say she was buried on 14 May 1775. Not only that, we have a copy of the AT on microfiche, and I just rechecked it.  The previous page shows baptisms, burials, and marriages from Easter 1774 to Easter 1775; it contains burials up to 19 March 1775 (the year is clear). The entries on the page containing Susanna's burial record start from Easter 1775.

George son of William & Susan Jeary baptis'd May 4th
The same Infant buried May 9th
Susan Wife of William Jeary buried May 14.

There are four more entries for 1775, then the next entry is clearly dated Jan'y 5th, 1776. At the bottom of the page is written: "Taken from the Register May 22, 1776."

So the parish register & Archdeacon's transcript recorded her burial in 1775, yet her tombstone shows, or at least appears to show, the year 1774.

I am going to have to revise my earlier statement about trusting the tombstone. We know the parish register was contemporary to her burial, and the Archdeacon's transcript was a made the following year. We don't, however, know when or by whom her tombstone was commissioned, or who dictated what should be carved upon it. We also don't know if the stonemason may not have made a mistake in the year, putting a 4 instead of a 5.

As a source, the register is most contemporary, followed by the AT, then (presumably, since we can't date it) the tombstone.

So a lesson learned and I take it back. Even though I'm still not sure about the name variant (and she probably went by each of them at some point in her life), I'll go with the parish register and Archdeacon's transcript on the year.

(And another lesson learned and note to self: pay closer attention & don't make assumptions. If I'd actually looked at the tombstone more closely, instead of just assuming it had the same year as the records, my previous post would have been very different.)