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ho were married between 1795 and 1949 in the netherlands netherlands marriage index 1524 1899 4 817 183 indexed records without record images updated 5 19 2026 this collection contains an index of marriages that were recorded in church records in the netherlands from 1524 1899 worcestershire england militia records 1604 1914 8 385 indexed records with record images added 5 18 2026 this collection contains militia records from worcestershire dated between 1750 and 1824 record types vary and include militia quarter sessions order books and payroll ledgers the complete ancestry com card catalog is at https search ancestry com search cardcatalog aspx by my count there are 3 new record collections added this past week per the list above there are now 33 937 collections available as of 22 may an increase of 3 from last week disclosure i pay for an all access subscription from ancestry com in past years ancestry com provided a complimentary all access subscription an autosomal dna test 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wiltshire in the 1840s the biography of james richman is in a bc biography of 20 james richman richmond 1821 1912 of wiltshire and new england annd for hannah is in abc biography of 21 hannah rich richman richmond 1824 1911 of wiltshire and new england ai notebooklm infographic james and hannah rich richman courtship and marriage in wiltshire i asked claude to describe james and hannah rich richman scourtship and early marriage years in the 1840s based on the biography and social history the second part of the claude sonnet 4 6 response was the weaver s daughter a story of james richman and hannah rich part one the village hilperton wiltshire spring 1843 the morning mist still clung to the water meadows along the avon when james richman set out from marsh lane with his father s old haversack over one shoulder and the smell of bread his mother had pressed into his hands still warm against his palm he was twenty two years old lean and broad shouldered from years of agricultural labor with hands that were already roughened well beyond his age the road to the fields took him past the row of weavers cottages on the south side of the lane and he had learned in recent months to slow his pace just slightly as he drew level with the third cottage from the end he was not entirely sure when he had begun to notice hannah rich she had been part of the village his whole life the way the church tower was part of the village or the sound of the canal barges moving through the early morning quiet she was three years his junior the daughter of john rich the weaver a quiet and capable man whose loom could be heard clicking steadily through the open window of the cottage from first light until the shadows grew long in the afternoon hannah had grown up at her mother rebecca s side learning to card and spin before she was tall enough to reach the loom comfortably and by the time she was eighteen she was considered one of the most accomplished weavers among the younger women of hilperton it was at the sunday school that james first spoke to her properly he had been attending for several years by then not because anyone required it of him at his age but because the sunday school represented something rare and precious in his life the chance to learn he had come to his letters late borrowing a hand copied alphabet from his friend will saunders tracing the shapes by firelight in the evenings after his father and brothers were asleep by twenty he could read well enough to make his way through a newspaper and he was hungry for more the sunday school s small lending shelf of religious texts and improving pamphlets was not much but it was something hannah came with her younger sister on the first sunday of april and they took seats near the window where the light fell cleanly across the pages james noticed that she read without moving her lips which he had come to understand was the mark of a truly practiced reader and then caught himself staring and looked quickly back at his own page afterward in the yard he summoned the courage to speak you re john rich s daughter he said which was not the most inspired opening but it was honest she looked at him with grey eyes that were entirely calm i am and you re one of the richmans from further up the lane james he said the second son i know she said simply and went to find her sister summer 1843 the village of hilperton was small enough that two young people who wished to encounter one another could arrange it without great difficulty provided they were willing to be patient and observe the proprieties james was patient by nature a quality his mother attributed to his temperament and his father attributed to stubbornness and he was scrupulous about proprieties because he understood that hannah s reputation was worth more than any fleeting satisfaction he might gain by being careless with it he found occasions to speak with her at church where the congregation mingled briefly in the yard before and after services he helped her father carry a heavy bolt of finished cloth to the canal wharf one afternoon when he happened to be passing and john rich was struggling with the weight of it he took pains to be courteous to her mother rebecca who watched him with the careful assessment of a woman who had raised a daughter she intended to see well settled hannah for her part gave nothing away easily she was not cold there was warmth in her james could see it in the way she was with the younger children of the village and in the quiet humor that occasionally surfaced when she spoke but she was measured as though she had decided early in life that her words and her feelings were her own to give or withhold as she saw fit and she would not be hurried what drew james to her most deeply he thought was not her face though her face was pleasant enough nor her skill at her work though that was evident it was something harder to name a quality of steadiness of being fully present in whatever she was doing that made him feel when she turned her attention on him that he was being genuinely seen by harvest time he had determined that he wished to marry her the question was whether she would have him and whether her father would consider him a suitable prospect autumn 1843 winter 1844 james spent the autumn thinking carefully about his position he was a laborer honest work steady enough but not distinguished his father john was working doing coal hauling along the canal which paid a little better than general farm work but was brutally hard on a man s body and james was able to find work there his older brother john junior had married and was already struggling to keep his young family fed the prospects for a man of james s class were not objectively speaking impressive what he had he told himself was his willingness to work his ability to read his determination to improve himself and whatever hannah rich might see in him that he could not entirely see himself it would have to be enough he spoke first to his mother ann richman who listened without interrupting a quality he deeply valued in her and then said she s a sensible girl from a decent family her mother s people are steady if you mean to have her you d best speak to her father before someone else has the same idea he spoke to john rich on a thursday evening in november sitting in the front room of the weaver s cottage with the smell of lanolin and wool dust in the air and the cold pressing at the small window john rich heard him out asked him three or four direct questions about his earnings and his intentions and said he would speak with his daughter james walked home in the dark not knowing what to hope a week later hannah s mother stopped him in the lane and said that her husband had no objection and that hannah had said she would be willing to hear what james had to say for himself the formality of it might have been comic but james understood that it was the form through which serious things were accomplished and he was grateful for it he and hannah walked together along the towpath of the avon and kennett canal on a sunday afternoon in late november the water grey and cold beside them and the bare willows trailing their fingers in the current he told her honestly what he could offer and what he could not he told her about his determination to better himself though he admitted he was not entirely sure yet what that meant he told her that he would not waste what she brought to a marriage which he could already see was considerable she was quiet for a long moment looking at the water my mother can t read she said finally she never learned my father reads a little for business she paused i can read i taught myself mostly from my father s order books i don t intend to forget how i wouldn t ask you to james said she looked at him then the full weight of her grey eyes steady on his face all right she said i ll marry you james richman part two the banns and the wedding summer and early autumn 1845 the intervening months between that conversation on the towpath and their wedding day were occupied with the practical business of making a marriage possible by the spring of 1845 james had been saving steadily for two years going without small comforts declining the ale at the inn on market days setting aside a shilling here and sixpence there with the dogged arithmetic of a man who knew exactly what he was working toward hannah s mother and her aunt lucia began assembling the household linens that would form the basis of their new home two sets of bed sheets rough but sound a pair of wool blankets that rebecca rich had been adding to over several winters a set of earthenware dishes an iron pot that had been her own grandmother s these were the bones of a household and they were given with the seriousness appropriate to the transfer of practical wealth between women james with the help of his brother john junior and a neighbor who owed him a favor acquired a table and two chairs a wooden bedstead and a narrow chest for storing clothes he found a cottage available on marsh lane two small rooms up one down with a kitchen lean to added onto the back and negotiated a weekly rent that was tight but manageable against his wages the banns were read in church on three consecutive sundays in august the curate announcing in his carrying voice that james richman and hannah rich intended to marry and that any person knowing of an impediment to this union should declare it the congregation of hilperton listened as they always did with the attentive interest of people who knew everyone involved personally and no impediment was declared september 7 1845 the wedding day arrived on a sunday in early september when the harvest was largely in and the village had the slightly relaxed quality of a community that had completed its most urgent work the morning was cool and bright with the particular clarity of early autumn light in wiltshire the kind of light that makes the limestone of the old buildings glow gold and throws long shadows across the churchyard grass hannah dressed at her parents cottage with her mother and her sisters ann and elizabeth in attendance there was no elaborate wedding gown such things were for people of quite different circumstances but she had a good dress of dark blue wool that she had woven herself over the preceding winter cut and sewn with care rebecca rich pinned a small spray of late summer flowers to her daughter s collar the closest thing available to a bridal decoration the women did not speak very much there was a quality to the morning that seemed to discourage unnecessary words james arrived at the church with his father and his mother his brother s john and his sisters elizabeth and sarah who had pressed his coat the night before and made him sit still while she cut his hair he stood at the front of the small church and watched the door and when hannah came through it with her father he felt something settle in his chest some long held anxiety releasing as though the sight of her simply confirmed something he had already known william talman the officiating clergyman read the service in the measured tones of a man who had performed it many times and understood its gravity james s mother ann served as one of the witnesses standing with her back straight and her best cap on watching her son with an expression that james could not quite read but which he thought was composed of equal parts pride and the particular sorrow that mothers seem to feel at the happiness of their children when james was required to sign the register he did so carefully his letters clear and deliberate when it was hannah s turn she took the pen and then set it down and made her mark the cross that served in place of a signature james did not look away and she did not look down it was simply what it was a fact about the world they had both been born into and they had already agreed between themselves that it would not remain true of their children after the ceremony the two families gathered in the yard and hannah s mother produced a pie and some cold meat and a quantity of cider that john rich had been keeping for the occasion and they ate together in the september sunshine with the sound of the church bells still in the air above them part three marsh lane autumn 1845 the cottage on marsh lane was twelve feet wide and not much longer with walls of the local limestone that kept the interior cool in summer and held the damp in winter the downstairs room served as kitchen and parlor both anchored by a stone fireplace that burned coal james could get it at a discount through his contacts along the canal and heated poorly but adequately when the fire was well built the upstairs had two chambers divided by a plank partition and the lean to kitchen at the back housed the water pump which required persuasion on cold mornings hannah set up their domestic life with the same methodical competence she brought to everything the earthenware dishes ...
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