Northamptonshire
Family historians all know that unusual entries often crop up in the pages of parish registers. If you happen to look at the register for the parish of Walgrave, which today survives at Northamptonshire’s county archive, then you will find a good example. The entry in question records the marriage of Prince Pekowisca and Madam Fatima, which was supposedly witnessed by Napoleon Bonaparte together with his adopted son Eugène de Beauharnais.
“It’s interesting to speculate on the identity of the prankster,” says collections officer Katie Stewart, “as access to the registers should
