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Tracing Emma Palfry

Posted by Hilary Macleod on 4/5/2018, 7:33 am

G'day from Australia!
I have hit a snag trying to trace my 2nd Great Grandmother in my family tree. The only records (Marriage and Census) I can access from here say that her name was Emma Palfry, born in 1824 in Combe Martin and that she became Emma Crowley when she married my 2nd Great Grandfather Matthew Crowley (born Bath, Somerset in 1820) in Barnstable, Devon in July 1855 when he was 35 and she was 31. it was his second marriage and I am wondering, given her age, whether Palfry was not her birth name but whether she had been also married before as I can't find any records of Emma Palfry born in Combe Martin in 1824.
Thank You
Hilary

Re: Tracing Emma Palfry

Posted by Deborah O'Brien on 4/5/2018, 11:34 am, in reply to "Tracing Emma Palfry"

If you obtain their marriage certificate, (which you can order from the General Register Office from anywhere) it should give her father's name. Then, try looking at indexes available via FindMyPast, searching for Emmas born 1824 in Combe Martin. Then, using the results, FREEBMD shows that an Emma GOULD married a Thomas PULFRAY in Dec qtr 1843, Barnstaple district. Obtain that marriage certificate and hopefully the two fathers match.

Re: Tracing Emma Palfry

Posted by Tim Treeby on 4/5/2018, 3:10 pm, in reply to "Re: Tracing Emma Palfry"

Looking at children of Matthew and Emma on the GRO site, gives MMN as GOULD. So would suggest that info that Deborah found is quite possibly correct.

Re: Tracing Emma Palfry

Posted by Deborah O'Brien on 4/5/2018, 12:06 pm, in reply to "Re: Tracing Emma Palfry"

Also - check the 1851 census - she is shown in Ilfracombe, spelled PULFRY, married with a 7 year old son, John, both born Combmartin (sic).

Re: Tracing Emma Palfry

Posted by Hilary Macleod on 5/5/2018, 6:44 am, in reply to "Re: Tracing Emma Palfry"

Thank you so much!
Great leads to follow up.

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