June Wedding ~ Jonathan & Martha (nee Mills) Wolfenden

52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks: 2020 Week 23 (WEDDING)

June is a very common month for weddings. My husband and I were married in June. Jonathan & Martha (nee Mills) Wolfenden were as well. Conveniently they belong to this week's planned Bramble Bush Branch. 

I found the perfect couple to focus on with my husband's 4th great grandparents:

Jonathan Wolfenden
BIRTH ABT 1792 • Spotland, Rochdale, Lancashire, England
DEATH 27 DEC 1853 • Rochdale, Lancashire, England
and 
Martha Mills
BIRTH ABT 1799 • Rochdale; Spotland, Lancashire, England
DEATH 9 JUL 1853 • Spotland, Further Side, Rochdale, Lancashire, England


They were married on June 10th 1816 at the church below.
Martha was 17 and Jonathan was 24.

Church of St Chad, in Rochdale, Greater Manchester, England   1 

I include this clip noting that neither Jonathan or Martha was literate on their wedding day. The registry is signed with their mark. There is much to learn by looking at the actual record instead of only the transcribed records. 

Marriage Banns Registry, Clipped from Ancestry

I have found records for the birth of 7 children who were all baptized in the same church their parents were married in. 





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Footnotes:

1 Church of St Chad, in Rochdale, Greater Manchester, England. Attribution: Kram4 (Mark Henderson) / CC BY-SA (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0), Retrieved June 3rd 2020 from
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St_Chad%27s_church,_Rochdale.JPG






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