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

One of Ari’s 6x great-grandmothers was Rachael Pain. She was born in about 1758 in Warminster, Wiltshire, daughter of Thomas and Mary Pain. She was baptised on 3 May 1758. Wiltshire, England, Church of England Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1538–1812 On 11 Feb 1776, Rachael married Thomas Curtis. Wiltshire, England, Church of England Marriages and Banns, 1754–1916 It looks as though they had nineteen children(!) between 1776 and 1817, and by the time of the eighteenth, (dau

Susan Davis was Ari’s 4x great-grandmother. She was born in about 1832 in the now-deserted village of Imber on Salisbury Plain, Wiltshire. The story of the village is told on this website, which includes photos of the people who lived there. This is Susan’s baptism record from 26 Feb 1837: (Source: Wiltshire, England, Church of England Births and Baptisms, 1813–1916 [database on-line].) Her sister Charlotte, also “B.B” (base-born, or illegitimate), was baptised on the same da