Although I started my family history research years ago I’m amazed how often I find new results from a quick google of an evening. Sometimes I’ll look at my MacFamilyTree programme to spot any missing entries for marriages or deaths.
Sometimes I think I have all the facts when there are actually glaring omissions I really should have established at the beginning of my research.
I have a son of a Baronet who was also a member of the Royal Navy in my tree who I can often find information about – Thomas Mansel (1783-1869). However I just realised I had never discovered the date of his marriage to Selina Fleming Leigh.
I turned to google this evening and after trawling through a couple of pages of results I found an entry for Thomas Mansel and Selina Leigh at St James, Birdham, Sussex on the 28th June 1827. I never knew they had a connection to Birdham so that was interesting to discover. The information came from a transcription of the Birdham St James Marriage Register (page 17, entry 49). There weren’t as many details as usually found on a marriage certificate but there was the following:
Thomas Mansel bachelor living in Birdham
Selena Flemming Leigh spinster living in Birdham
Conducted by William Miller
Type Licence
no details for name or occupation of either father
Witnesses William Lush and Catherine Elizabeth Mansel
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