Mizztraveller wrote:Why do you think it's unlikely that they didn't marry till 20 years after the birth of their son?
This is Elizabeth Spencer's page on my timeline. If it's the same person, she was born in Liverpool and died in Much Dewchurch. Is it possible to verify that this is the same Elizabeth Spencer/Powell?
https://www.ancestry.co.uk/family-tree/ ... 8161/facts
Because for it to work out she would have:
Been born in Liverpool in 1719
Travelled over 100 miles to Much Dewchurch at some point, before or after meeting Thomas Powell
Had son Thomas Powell baptised at Much Dewchurch, father Thomas Powell but not married to him
At some point she married someone else and he died (she is a widow when she marries)
Then she married Thomas Powell, father of her child, in Liverpool in 1763, again 100 miles away
And she returned to Much Dewchurch, again 100 miles, to be buried.
It just doesn't make sense to me.
And if the marriage entry is to be believed, Spencer was not her maiden name, so connecting her to Spencer siblings cannot be correct.