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- There is very little about Mary that I can find, but the marriage looks right. Both Peter and Mary are recorded as widowed, and so Mary's surname at the time (CROW) is not her birth name. But I can find no suitable burial for Mary Juniper. So the story is definitely incomplete.
Conversely, the document "Some Rough Materials for a History of the Hundred of North Erpingham, Vol. 1, 1883 - Compilation of Published Sources" says her name is Sarah. This says burial 27 Sep 1813, aged 54 at death, but the handwritten burial register which is slightly different, is assumed to be correct.
However, there is no record of Sarah marrying a CROW that really matches any other data. So we assume her name is Mary, but for whatever reason she is Sarah after marrying Peter. Perhaps this is related to the daughter who died not long before the wedding?
To understand Mary's past, I have looked at possible men surnamed CROW (or CROWE) who were buried in the 20 years leading up to her wedding with Peter, and within 5 miles of Mundesley. Only John CROW is a possibility. I cannot find the original document but the transcripts have him being buried either 1/12/1797 or 1/12/1798. Hopefully it is the first of these to allow the banns to be read for the marriage to Peter.
I then looked at marriages between a male CROW/CROWE and Mary or Sarah, within 10 miles of Mundesley. There is a Charles CROW marrying Mary STEWARD on 26/8/1782 at North Walsham. However Charles does not appear to have died before 1798.
So I think the most likely scenario is John CROW marrying Mary PALGRAVE 12/4/1771 at North Walsham.
The issue with the suggested marriage is that, Mary would be 13 at her marriage. However, I think it more likely that she was unsure about her age than one of the other possibilities above.
There are lots of possible baptisms for John Crow; maybe the most probable is a baptism in 1744 at North Walsham. There is nothing obvious for Mary Palgrave (or indeed Mary Steward), but a number of possiblities at 20 miles distant.
The only other option is with records not yet available on the Internet. So this is still a best guess!!!!
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1758 - 1813 (55 years)
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