The Hampshire Family Historian | Vol.48 No.4 | March 2022

Member’s article

– Ten years getting there, lingering during lockdown

Admiralty Map of coastguard stations 1855 (The National Archives)

Was it too much to suppose Mary Ann Redding and her brother Richard Redding had married Barrett siblings in William and Betsy? It must have been ten years since we set out on this hunt. 2021- more lockdown time! We looked again at the 1832 marriage of Mary Ann Redding and William Barrett ‘at source’ (family search.org.uk) An image was available! We found that Thomas Redding (Mary Ann’s

brother) was a witness. Wonderful! The record showed, also, that William

Coastguard book with a ‘William Barrett’ listed

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