Have you lost Sarah HAINES?
I found this document at the Northamptonshire
Record Office recently and I thought Sarah might
belong to somebody in the Reading area:
'1738. Joseph Walker shoemaker of ys parish
& Sarah Haines of Redding in Berkshire WID.
Having liv'd & travelld together as man &
wife three and twenty years or more were brot:
here by a pass from Creaton very Sick, on web
enquiry being made concerning their marriage as
pretended it appear'd they never had been
married, and ye man confess'd ye Same under his
hand before several Wittnesses who have attested
ye Same, but both he & she desiring they
might be lawfully marry'd confessing both of them
the Crime of their former life & pretending
Sorrow for it they were, after the womn: had
sojourn'd here Six weeks, askt three times at
Church during divine Service & then lawfully
marry'd the Five and Twentieth Day of July this
year.'
