Thread: Mary Seawell -Great Yarmouth

I am given to understand Mary married Thomas Berry b 1788 (Ropemaker) Great Yarmouth

Can anyone fill in any information about Mary, I know there were sewell families in Great Yarmouth

Seawell is a various spelling sewell is likely and barry and berry look very close - dates would fit for a marriage - looks promising pejay

If they married at St Nicholas, Great Yarmouth you can look at the actual marriage register images on www.familysearch.org - choose the Search Records tab on the top left menu and then on the dropdown menu the Record Search Pilot which will open a new window.

Click on Browse our collections then choose Europe from the dropdown menu. Scroll down to United Kingdom and pick the Norfolk images. Go down to Yarmouth which is near the end (its not under Great Yarmouth).

Choose St Nicholas, then marriages, then the appropriate date range.

You should be able to find the entry and see the image (its image 55). It's page 98 entry ~ 294. Similarly you should be able to find the baptism image too.

I know sewell and seawell were pretty interchangeable but the marriage is a definite barrey not berry. Anyone know if Barrey/Berry interchangeable?

Thanks Pejay

It was quite common for names to be spelt in a variety of ways when they weren't recorded often. Now we are always filling in forms and have umpteen plastic cards and there is a specific spelling for our surnames, but in the past it was more likely names would be written differently each time - for example in my tree I don't think I have a single surname that hasn't been recorded differently - Willsher/Wiltshire, Mealing/Mailin/Maling, etc. Curates often misspelt first names too - I've found Pheby/Phoebe and my gt gt gt grandmother on her chiildren's baptisms is Susan/Susannah/Suzanne and Anne!

Hi for whats it worth ive had a look at image too , as Thomas couldnt write [ he signed with X ] possible mistakes made . As Jeuel said surnames were spelt different on many documents . It was Barrey at time of marriage .