BOWLER of BURCOT

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Getting details of that marriage will be the key to going further backwards. Potentially the couple could have married in any of the parishes in the Abingdon registration district, in churches, chapels or the Abingdon register office. You could try searching out copies of church records (check the publication lists of the Berkshire and Oxfordshire FHSs), but it will probably be quicker just to send off for a copy of the marriage certificate via the GRO.

When it comes to looking for Ann's baptism, it may be useful to know that Burcot church was built in 1869 as a chapel of ease to Dorchester. There are apparently no separate registers, so it is the Dorchester registers where you're likely to find entries relating to Burcot folk (but Ann's marriage was presumably not at Dorchester, otherwise it would be listed as being in the Wallingford registration district). More about the history of Burcot here: http://www.
british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=63768

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From Oxfordshire FHS PR Transcripts of St Helen's Abingdon:

25 December 1864 David SEYMOUR, 24, bachelor, Labourer, Stert Street, father Henry SEYMOUR, Labourer married Ann BOWLER, 21, spinster, Vineyard, father William BOWLER, Labourer, by banns. Witnesses: Frances BECKETT & Sam SIMPSON

However, trying to find her on earlier census records is proving problematical.

Janet