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Wootten /Wodden

Posted by Trish on 23/4/2023, 7:14 pm

Hi, I'm looking for family of a Katherine Wootten (who has been recorded as a Wodden on her marriage cert to a Thomas Saunders in 1603 in Shebbear). She died 1642 in Shebbear but I cannot find her birth record (supposedly also Shebbear) and the marriage entry did not have any parents names. Marriage cert said she was born in 1584 but I am sceptical of this as her husband was also born this year and may have been an entry error. I have details of her two children but have hit a brick wall going back on her side of the marriage. Any suggestions on where to look next would be appreciated! Or indeed if anyone has any knowledge of Shebbear and the Woottens / Woddens that may help that would be wonderful! Thank you, Trish

Re: Wootten /Wodden

Posted by Sally Topliss on 24/4/2023, 4:34 pm, in reply to "Wootten /Wodden"

I have looked at the marriage certificate and notice that FMP have not even transcribed a surname for Katherine. I can't decipher it as Wodden or Wootten. Have you seen an original copy? I also cannot see any age mentioned for Katherine on the marriage cert. I see there are some trees on Ancestry that state Wootten or Wodden but perhaps they know something more. There are only three Katharines bapt. in Shebbear around the right time, viz:
Beaple 1580, Hutchen 1577 and Nichol 1579.
Sally

Re: Wootten /Wodden

Posted by Trish on 25/4/2023, 4:44 pm, in reply to "Re: Wootten /Wodden"

Thank you Sally we will keep checking did you find an actual marriage certificate as we only found entry in parish records

Re: Wootten /Wodden

Posted by Sally Topliss on 26/4/2023, 2:40 pm, in reply to "Re: Wootten /Wodden"

Sorry I should have said, it was not the original marriage certificate but what was in the Parish Record.
Sally

Re: Wootten /Wodden

Posted by Joan Smith on 10/6/2023, 6:59 pm, in reply to "Re: Wootten /Wodden"

At this date the only record would be in the Parish Register. Marriage certificates giving the fathers name did not start until 1837. Records of the sort you have found started in 1538 so you are lucky to find the information that you have as the refisters have been damaged or lost in the last 500 years. Before this time you might find a document at the national archives discovery website which mentions the family.

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