The treasure today is the 1775 marriage of John Richman and Mary Parsons in Trowbridge, Wiltshire:
The Richman - Parsons marriage banns record is the last one on the page:
The extracted information from this record is (handwritten information in italics):
No. 485
Banns of Marriage between John Richman of this Parish, widower,
& Mary Parsons of this Parish, Spinster
were published on the three Sundays underwritten:
This is to say, On Sunday, the 5^th March 1774 by me Charles Hodgkin Curate
On Sunday, the 12^th March 1774 by me Charles Hodgkin
On Sunday, the 19^th March 1774 by me Charles Hodgkin
The source citation for this record is:
"Wiltshire, England, Church of England Marriages and Banns, 1754-1916," indexed database with record images, Ancestry.com (https://www.ancestry.com : accessed 21 February 2020), Trowbridge, St James with St Stephen > 1764-1783, page 76 (image 313 of 382), No. 485, Banns for John Richman and Mary Parsons, 1775.
I am not sure that John Richman and Mary Parsons are the parents of my 3rd great-grandfather, John Richman (1789-1867), but they are certainly candidates for being his parents, along with several DNA matches with other descendants of John and Mary (Parsons) Richman.
A key clue found in this record is that John Richman was listed as a "Widower." There are two earlier marriages of a John Richman in to Ann Porch (in 1765) and to Susanna Rawlins in 1769. One or both of these marriages may pertain to this John Richman. It also "stretches out" the potential birth years for John Richman to, say, 1730 to 1750.
There are only two John Richmans in the Hilperton or Trowbridge parish records that are potential candidates. The best candidate is John Richman (1744-1802), baptized in Hilperton on 3 June 1744, the son of Joseph and Elizabeth (Rawlings) Richman. Of course, there may be another John Richman who is not listed in the parish baptism records of Hilperton and Trowbridge who may be the John who married Mary Parsons in 1775. I may never know!
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