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I had a look at Levi Greatbatch and I don't think there's any strong reason to connect him with us any more than any other Greatbatches. He was born in Staffordshire to a William and Mary, married a Kentish woman at Ramsgate, quite a long way from Chatham, then went back to Staffordshire and later was a glass and china dealer in Oxford.

Hello Kate,

I am afraid all I knew before I heard from you was William's name, that his wife was Elizabeth, and when some of his children were born. I am very pleased to have so much more and would be very interested in the records you have found.
What I did know came from transcripts on genealogy sites, some of which are clearly inaccurate - I thought that Harriet who was baptised on the same day as Isaac was the daughter of John and Elizabeth but I am sure you are right and Isaac and Harriet were brother and sister. I have only just found the images of the Chatham registers on line and will have a good look for the Greatbatches on them - but it looks like you've already done that.
I notice that there is a Levi Greatbatch born about 1815 who turns up in Kent and Oxford. There is a mention of Oxford in one of the letters so I'm thinking I'll look a bit more closely at Levi and his family. Maybe you already know something about him?
I am new to this forum and did not know how private messaging worked so thanks for mentioning it. This will be my third post so I'll send a message with some links to pictures of the letters. They are a bit scrawly in places and I have transcribed one as best I can. I might try to get the other one done first as I also want to post a copy off to a cousin of my father's who I recently visited - Getting the letters ready for her is what set me off looking further into this part of the family.

Hello, I am very interested in the Kent Greatbatch families, and as you seem to have done some work on them you may be able to help me out a bit. My great great great grandfather was William Greatbatch born in Chatham in 1810 (maybe the William who was a witness at Anne's wedding?). His parents were William and Elizabeth Greatbatch and he had a brother Isaac. I thought the Anne Greatbatch who married Thomas Gover might be his sister but it seems you have information that she was born in Stoke - though maybe her parents moved from there to Chatham before William and Isaac were born. There is some connection, though, because I have a letter written in 1874 from William to his daughter Ettie which refers to Anna Gover, evidently Anne and Thomas's daughter, going on a day out "with two other neices".
There must also be a connection with John and Elizabeth Greatbatch who had several children at Chatham between 1799 and 1813, including another Isaac and a Mary Ann who might well be the other witness at the wedding. John (1770-1814) was a Sergeant-Major in the Marines at Chatham.

There are a few other tantalizing clues to relationships in William's letters which I am trying to make sense of.

If you can throw any light on these families I would be very grateful.

Thanks,

Andrew