From: nemonews@hotmail.co.uk   
      
   Would the entry in the GRO Chaplains' Returns of Marriages for a   
   marriage of British soldier in France in 1825 give the name of the   
   father of the groom?   
      
   I wrote to this list some years ago about a relative of mine, Joseph   
   Pitt of Canterbury, who used the alias Dineage (various spellings) for   
   some time during his life, several of his children being baptised with   
   that surname.  Joseph's older brother was named Samuel Pitt and there is   
   a PR entry for his public Baptism at St Mary Magdalene, Canterbury in   
   1799, following private Baptism in Birmingham in 1795.  I have found no   
   further records for Samuel Pitt, but I have found a lot of records   
   relating to Samuel Dinenage, born 1895, apparently in Canterbury.   
      
   Another connection to the Dinenage surname is that Joseph's daughter,   
   Sophia, was a witness to the marriage of a Mary Ann Pitt Dinenage to   
   Sophia's husband's brother.  Mary Ann was possibly the daughter of a   
   brother of Joseph Pitt.  Some Australian records say her father was   
   William Pitt who was a gunmaker, as was Joseph's father.   
      
   I am trying to prove or disprove that Samuel Pitt and Samuel Dinenage   
   were one and the same, but I have not yet found any information   
   concerning Samuel Dinenage's parentage.  Hence my query about his   
   marriage record.   
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