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Hello!
I have transcribed the Turnastone registers and can tell you that apart from the marriage of Thomas Broade and Ann Loddington, there is no other reference to this couple or to these surnames. They did not have any child baptised here and if Thomas's name had not appeared in the list of Rectors, the marriage would have been a complete mystery.
Turnastone is a very small parish (even today, the population is under 40) and did not produce much in the way of stipend. During his rectorship (which I suspect was largely in absentia), three Curates have been identified - Benjamin Rogers, Edward Williams and Thomas Williams. If Thomas Broade was Rector of Chaldon in Surrey and of Benefield in Northants at the same time, he cannot have been officiating in person in both of those and in Turnastone as the distances were impossible. Clergy were permitted to hold several benefices as it wasn't until the early 19th century (and the continuing rise of non-conformity) that clergymen began to be expected to take thier duties very seriously. Hereford had a bishop at the turn of the 1800s who actually spent most of his time in Winchester (where he had very comfortable rooms in the College) leaving the running of his diocese to a young nephew he favoured. He did come during the summer months ......
Turnastone must have been the first living to which Thomas was appointed - he graduated in March 1720 and was instituted into Turnastone on 16 November the same year by the Patron who at that date was a Robert Price, gent. It may be that Mr Price was of the family of Foxley who had an interest in property in Turnastone and Vowchurch.
You mentioned having found several Broade and Loddington Wills - were they proved in the PCC?