An interesting one! Thought she might show up on FreeREG but no luck there. Nothing on Familysearch either. You say her father was deceased when she married - presumably (as you haven't given it) there was no name on the certificate nor occupation for her father. Unhelpfully it looks as if she might have been a servant in Cross in 1841 so no family connections there. On the 1851 census her birth place is given as Congresbury, but as you say on others it is Winscombe. The witnesses should appear on the 1841 census - The only Henry MOSS of an age to be a witness living in Somerset is in Blagdon with what looks like a father, John and siblings but of course you can't be sure with the 1841 census. There is a baptism of a Henry MOSS in Nempnett Thrubwell which might fit this Henry - this is in 1826 with a sister, Mary Ann being christened in 1821. Their parents are John & Mary Ann MOSS and he is a farmer in Blagdon. Another of John & Mary's children, John, was christened at Winford (from FreeREG) so it is quite possible that Caroline was born somewhere else - could she have mistaken Winford for Winscombe? Still can't be sure about this but it is worth looking into again. By the way, who was the Bartholomew MOSS in Congresbury in 1841? Pat |