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No Mr Knott, no help required right now. Thanks for asking though. 
The reason for my post was that I thought I should at least create a portal to my own Pearce and Ayles interest, conscientiously play along the RootsChat game as it were, by setting my connection as to time and place. If my scanty information sparks a contact that would certainly be very welcome, or maybe what I have will be of help to someone else.
I hope to go forward again when the OPC transcription for Dorset is more complete. I did view the Portland parish register when it was kept at the church back in 1974 but I am now too far away from the DRO where it now housed. At that time I only tracked my ancestry forward in time from the Edward-Ann marriage in 1735. Now I have progressed to chasing down the various marriage lines, and unfortunately Edward arrived in Portland from some unknown point of origin - except for what happened when I tried my hand at map dowsing once (no kidding).

MaryWilliams, I have Anthony in the tree, and his son Henry who married Eliza. Henry's son Samuel, who I have married to Jane, shows three children in the tree - Harriet, Samuel and Eliza - but there it stops. Can you continue this line forward in time for me (and to yourself)?
Do you have Anthony's parents?
I have Samuel (who married Jane) as one of ten children of Henry and Eliza. Henry also had (at least) two sisters, one of whom married a Welford, and has a sizeable downstream line.
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