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Thanks Mabel, certainly looks like him. I'll have a look in the morning.

Alan,

Thanks for the marriage info for Adam & Ann, where did you find the info? The date ties up nicely with the birth of her first child. I have seen Ann's surname as being Stokes or Spokes.
daisypetal pointed me to a baptism of Sarah in 1804 at Bradfield.

Thanks again
Maurice

Thanks for the 1941 census reference.
What on earth made you look for Macadam?
Cheers
Maurice

Sarah Marsham married Thomas Grout on 18th July 1825 at St Mary’s Church in Fetcham, Surrey. From 1826 to 1842 they had 9 children all of whom were baptised in Great Bookham, Surrey. A paper trail has established that Sarah and Thomas were my paternal 2nd great-grandpatents. Additionally I have 2 DNA cousins who have Sarah and Thomas as our most recent common ancestor (MCRA), and 20 more who share their son James as our MCRA, all confirmed with paper trails.
The 1841 census for Great Bookham, Surrey shows Sarah as not being born in county. The 1851, 61 and 71 censuses state her birth place as being in Bradfield, Berks, and suggest that she was born about 1806. She died in 1878 age 72 yrs.
I cannot find any record of Sarah Marsham prior to her marriage to Thomas Grout.

So far so good.

AncestryDNA suggests that I have 7 dna matches who are descended from Adam Payne Marcham and Ann Spokes (or Stokes), ranging from 35 cM and 3 segments to 9 cM and 1 segment.
AncestryDNA ThruLines suggests that Sarah Marsham is the daughter of Adam and Ann Marcham.
From 1794 to 1803 Adam and Ann had 4 children, all of whom were baptised in Bradfield, Berks. John, Elizabeth, William and James. No Sarah.

The only vaguely close record that I can find is the baptism of a Sarah Marcham born in 1808 in Aldworth, Berks, but her parents were Edward and Charlotte.

The question is who were Sarah Marsham’s parents?

Thanks in advance,
Maurice

Princes St is now Rawlings St - changed in 1912,
and Green St is now Mossop St - changed after 1929, exactly when I know not.

Cheers.