Hi David,

Many thanks for your reply in searching the Farmborough registers I did come across Elizabeth BRIDGES and Aaron ASHMAN as possible parents for Caroline but was thrown by the given name of her father, John BRIDGES, on her marriage entry.

I guess by the time she married John SALMON in 1839 her mother had been married for some 16 years so probably Caroline looked on John as her father or as you suggested the vicar assumed wrongly and the family for their own reason didn't put him right.

Cheers

John
Somerset