Dashper X files #5

X Files #5 (posted by Linda Etty on 28/12/1999 from Hamilton Ontario Canada)

The mystery of Susannah Dashper's marriage

"Susannah Phillips Dashper was our great grandmother. We suspected Susannah died young and never married (see Daniel Dashper) but I stumbled upon her marriage to John Bayley in Tavistock in 1876. Within the last month I received a copy of Susannah's mother's death certificate in 1898. Susannah was the witness and she gives her name as Susannah Newcombe."

• X Files Case #5 solved, case closed (or is it?): Linda Etty writes (10/3/2000) -"The mystery of Susannah Dashper has been solved for the time being. Shirley James (Durdan) obtained the marriage certificate of Susannah Dashper 1876 (5B#644).  The marriage was May 19, 1876 to JOSEPH NEWCOMBE  a farmer at Cudlipptown owned by his father James Newcombe.  Susannah lived at Lane End, Peter Tavy with her father William Dashper.  I believe (as we call it) there was a double ring ceremony.  When I found Susannah Dashper and then found John Bayley with the same registration number I assumed they married.  I think Susannah Dashper married Joseph Newcombe and John Bayley married ??? during the same ceremony accounting for the confusion."

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