May 4th 1871 was a big day in my family history. In this article I analyze an old wedding photo and try to figure out who the people were.
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May 4th 1871: a family wedding
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Which John Couzens?
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I was working on final preparations for my webinar last week when I got a shock. According to my research, I have a set of fourth-great-grandparents on my father’s grandmother’s side called John Couzens and Sarah Cutler, who married in Portsea, Hampshire, England, on October 27, 1794. But I found that there were two near-contemporaneous men called John Couzens