The reference number for this is HP34/13/3/5 and are part of the record set for the parish of Godmanchester St Mary's Church. No children are mentioned in this archives index, just James and Mary.
I wonder what their story was. I can imagine them bumping their way home on a little cart .... the distance from Godmanchester to Conington is about 8 miles.
James and Mary Stokes aren't in my family tree, but my eyes are drawn to the Stokes name in the Huntingdonshire area.
I noticed that a James and Mary had quite a few children baptised at St Mary's church Conington. I wondered if it's the same couple! FreeREG shows baptisms of Mary in 1778, but then a burial of a Mary, wife of James, in November 1778. Then, in 1779 there is a burial of Mary, daughter of James. However, in 1783 there was another baptism of a Mary, daughter of James/Mary. This sort of confusion is often found in parish records. You wonder, then if James went and got himself another wife called Mary, or if there were two James Stokes' and various Marys in the village! There are further baptisms for James/Mary in Conington in the coming years.
Findmypast has one James Stokes married in 1774 in Huntingdonshire, but without a current subscription I can't even guess if it's this one.
If the Stokes family of Conington are in your family tree, that's quite a lot of sorting out that'd need to be done there!
And, if that weren't enough confusion, there are actually two Coningtons in the Cambridgeshire areas:
- One Conington is adjacent to Swavesey, Cambridgeshire
- The other Conington, Huntingdonshire is 15 miles North West of Conington Cambs.
Sources: CALM, Cambs Archives Catalog; FreeREG.
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