From: ce11son@yahoo.ca   
      
   On Tue, 23 Oct 2018 13:42:29 +0100, Jenny M Benson   
    wrote:   
      
   >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?   
   >   
   It would not normally have done so in the civil equivalent unless IME   
   the person recording it seemed to think it necessary as part of the   
   description (e.g. to differentiate between two neighbouring Fred   
   Smiths). In the Army the "obvious"[TM] identifier would have been a   
   soldier's regimental number.   
      
   >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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