General Chat

The marriage wisn't at Holy Trinity and the Marriage Locator program can't tie it down to a particular parish. So I'll have to search the West Ham parishes but won't be able to do that until late tomorrow afternoon.

It may be a register office marriage in which case I won't have the details.

Thanks anyway - it was worth a shot.

As I feared I did not find a parish with the right page number range. The maximum page number for West Ham for that year and quarter is 708. I would expect register office marriages to be the high end of that range starting around 500.

It was good of you to try. I think we'd all love to get this mystery sorted out, but my money (if I had any to spare!), would be on the family Maryb, found, despite the baptism complications :-D

Parents of William and Stephen Bull born Sandhurst.

William Bull born Pyrton Oxfordshire to John and Martha Bull

Marriage for William?
William Bull married/F/M 3a 625 1864 Henley Oxfordshire to Emma Chuter.

Emma Chuter 1833 Brentford to Stephen 1796 and Jane Chuter 1796.

Maryb.

I have also found out William John or John William had a big family, his father married 2 times, also I am not sure whether this will help but according to my great aunt who is still with us said her father William Henry used to say that his great aunt owned chalk farm/regents park land she died and no one claimed the land so it went to the Crown by the time a relative did the Zoo and railway had been built on the land....I had heard that through my grandmother as well was hoping I could find some sort of land records for names but think this will wait until after Xmas. Its so frustrating :-(

I have been I contact with my great aunt and there is now more info there are 2 William Henry Bulls born West Ham in 1895 on in Jan and the other July my relative is the one born in July the other William Henry born in Jan is his cousin my William birth cert states his father was William John but on his sister Selina's cert it states John William also on the marriage cert it states John William. Also his family always thought that William Henry's father was also William Henry aswell!!!! So would the best thing to do now would be purchase both birth certs for William Henry in 1895 than find out who the other parents were for the other William Henry and try and work out the family history from that as I could than look on the 1891 and 1881 census. Any help or advice would be really appreciated now

I have now purchased their Wedding cert it states on the wedding cert John William Bull 33 Bachelor Labourer 52 Romford Rd, Father William Bull (dead) Bricklayer. Louisa Mary Lees 25 Spinster 52 Romford Rd, Father Henry William Lees Labourer Married on 15 August 1897. But the problem is John William on his daughter's birth cert is William John and his Sons it states John William I have looked for a John William/William John born between 1862 and 1865 I have seen from other family members he had a brother Samuel married to a Harriet Budge but nowhere can I find a birth cert for John/William or a census plus not long after Louisa died he supposedly married again (not sure who too) but went on to have at least 2 more sons and a daughter have looked at the 1901 and 1911 census and come up with nothing please help. :-S