William Payne Curtis of Warminster
One of Ari’s 5x great-grandfathers was William Payne Curtis, son of Thomas Curtis and Rachael Pain. He was born in Warminster, Wiltshire, in about 1802, and baptised on September 19th at the church of St Denys. On 14 March 1822 he married Elizabeth (Betsy) West, of the nearby village of Norton Bavant. The marriage was announced in the Bath Chronicle and Weekly Gazette: (This is the only record I have found where he has the middle name Payne.) In the 1841 census they are livi