A marriage took place in Spalding, Lincolnshire, England (to Miss Susan Wilson).

The evidence

• “In the spring of 1850, during the great gold excitement, he went to California, going overland by team, and engaged in placer mining in Placerville. The succeeding two years were spent in the gold mines with varying success, at the end of which time he returned to New York by way of Nicaragua and at once sailed for his native land, where on March 23, 1852, in Spalding, Lincolnshire, England, he was married to Miss Susan Wilson, a daughter of John and Sarah (Taylor) Wilson of that place.”

  1908-brown-rock-county/34b-biographical-2.md, Vol. 2, PDF p. 420 / book p. 911

  Brown, William Fiske, editor. Rock County, Wisconsin: A New History of Its Cities, Villages, Towns, Citizens and Varied Interests, from the Earliest Times, Up to Date. Chicago: C. F. Cooper & Co., 1908. 2 vols. archive.org/details/rockcountywiscon01brow, archive.org/details/rockcountywiscon02brow.

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