Joseph Matthew Wise & Sarah Ann Franks (Wise)

Joseph and Sarah were married in a religious & civil ceremony on March 26th, 1883 in Sympson (Now known as Simpson) witnessed by Esther Hodgkins, Allain Rosen?.

• Marriage/Union Notes
  • "The area of the parish of Simpson, or Sympson is 1312 acres; part of which is included in the town of Fenny Stratford. Rateable value, £3654. The soil is gravelly, with portions of loamy ground and a clayey subsoil, with abundance of spings. The Grand Junction Canal passes through the parish. The open fields and commons have been inclosed under two Acts of Parliament passed in 1763 and 1770.
    
    The Village is seated at the foot of a hill, about 1 1/2 mile N. by E. from Fenny Stratford, 2 1/2 miles N.E. from Bletchley, and 5 miles S. from Newport Pagnell - on the road between the latter town and Fenny Stratford. Thirty years ago it was, in appearance, one of the most wretched of many miserable villages in the county. During a great portion of winter time the main road was generally impassable, without wading through water three feet deep, for a distance of about 200 yards. But chiefly through the exertions of Mr. C. Warren, the road has been raised 3 1/2 feet; and the handsome Villa residence of this gentleman, with its tastefully laid out pleasure grounds, summer-houses, grottoes, rock-work, fountain, fish-pond, &c., sets the place off to great advantage. There are also several other genteel houses here."
    [History and Topography of Buckinghamshire, by James Joseph Sheahan, 1862]
    

They had four sons and seven daughters, named Harry, Arthur, Hubert, Joseph, Sarah, Margaret, Annie, Lydia, Maggie, Esther and Olive.