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Thanks for that. I am a member of the Cambridgeshire FHS and I was hoping they had got the info on line but according to this website https://bit.ly/2LdnHmF they haven't got round to Wisbech St Mary yet.

I'm a little bit closer than you to Wisbech (Colchester) but I guess the boys in blue wouldn't consider my trip to look at the parish records as being absolutely necessary

Until I can get there myself I'll use your information in my tree.

Incidentally, I've just realised that I've met you on line many years ago via http://kisby.one-name.net/  I seem to recall asking you for some information a long while ago.

Hi Trish

Now that is far more likely than the suggestions in Ancestry. Someone has put in their tree a marriage of John Kisby in Clerkenwell of all places! On top of that he was only 9 years old when he married Ann Miller! And to cap it all he moved to Whittlesey where Emmanuel was born!

Whittlesey is in the back of beyond even now and before the advent of the railways I doubt very much that an Ag Lab could afford a coach.

I will follow your suggestion faithfully along with that of Seank. I think I am now a whole lot closer to identifying the correct family. I'll come back when I've added all the names into my tree.

Thanks for your help.

Thanks Margaret. Unfortunately none of those dates will fit Emmanuel's parents. Emmanuel was born around 1797 so his parents would need to have been married around 1795 and born around 1775 give or take 10 years.

Looks like I'll have to give up the search for the moment

Excellent stuff, thank you Margaret. That was a great help but now I would like to go back one generation. According to the 1841 Census for Whitllesey there was another family of Kisby's - John and Mary - living in Towns End Peterboro and who seem to be about the right age for Emmanuel's parents at his birth (28 and 18).

I know it's a long shot but living near each other and being the right age?? Have you got anything that might prove (or disprove) this theory?

Thanks

Spencer