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So it looks as though my assumption may have been wrong. Back to the drawing board...

What about the people at 13 Horwick Street, then? And the marriage witnesses might...

Aberdeen. I got most of what I wrote about degrees from Wikipedia:

https://
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master_of_Arts_(Scotland)

Intensive or not, it seems the course must have been shorter than...

I've done a bit of poking around in the Liverpool records to see what I could find. My knowledge of Liverpool geography is poor, but there might just be one or two clues here.

First, I see from...

That occurred to me too. Though actually in the four ancient universities of Scotland, of which Glasgow is one, the ordinary first degree in an arts or humanities subject is an M.A., but if it only...

I'd be surprised if it meant anything other than 'widow' here. If she was James Ward's daughter, there wouldn't be any need to delete 'filiam'; in fact it would probably have been left as is to make...

While researching a clergyman in Yorkshire who studied at Glasgow University I found an online copy of their lists of alumni etc. It's at:

https://...

Just seen this on the GRO site - the times given are presumably UK (BST):

Have you seen him in the Clergy Database?

https://
theclergydatabase.org.uk/jsp/persons/DisplayCcePerson.jsp?PersonID=1663

Not to worry - it can be tricky when different aspects of the same question belong in different places, but a bit of cross-referencing usually sorts it out. (Moderators can also merge threads if they...

I didn't read the other post until after I'd replied here, and my first thought was that yes, he seems to have been either lying or a bigamist. However, given what you said there about his separation...

If Heneage hadn't heard from Sarah for 7 years he could have presumed she was dead and legally married Ruth, but in view of the Chancery case in 1823, this might mean the marriage to Ruth was a bit...

Yes, he might have wanted to emphasise that they were legitimate, possibly to show that they were entitled to settlement in the same place as he was. I don't know whether anyone would have checked if...

I think the main entry reads:

his 2 Chn are by his late Wife Ruth to whom
he was Marrd

(Abbreviated words are Children and Married)

And the bit in the margin, if it's similar to the entry...

Based on a quick look in the National Index of Parish Registers, the short answer is No.

Rotherham is quite a big place, and from much earlier times the parish included the chapelries of Tinsley...

Not if it's all properly backed up with multiple copies, which is of course a possibility with digital. I would prefer the paper copies to be kept, but without the digital ones, it would be an even...

That's not looking too good for the mmn's of the children in the 1861 census, unless she'd been married before. More research needed there, but I'm afraid I'm not going to be able to do any more...

Mother's maiden name for that one given as BACH by the GRO. Most of the others in the census entry we found have mmn BUTCHER - but as it's slightly similar I wouldn't rule it out as being the same....

More information, please:

What is Mary's age in the later censuses and at her marriage?

What is her father's occupation given as in the marriage register?

Ideally, please could you give us...

At the age of 20, someone would normally need the consent of their parents in order to marry. The fact that it's an executor who gives consent suggests that William's parents, or at least his father,...

What struck me about this was Thomas's age at death. Did he die in England or Wales? Because if so, I suspect something is amiss.

The GRO death index for 1863-1867 has quite a lot of Thomas...

Foster's Alumni Oxonienses (which the Clergy Database uses as one of its sources) gives his father as Francis of Leicester:

https://...

His will can be downloaded from Scotland's People (for 10 credits), and would very likely name members of his immediate family. (Inventory also available for another 10 credits)

The first character (ie the initial) looks the same as the letter before 'Wing', but I wonder if it might be 'R' rather than 'B'. Although it's not identical to the one in C.M.R., it does have a...

Yes, 'were married'.

You've done pretty well so far - this is how I read it, with contractions expanded:

Johanes Gell de Hopton in Com[itate] D[er]bie Armig[er] et Elizabetha
Willughbie filia Per[civall] Willughbie...