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Can't thank you enough for your clues.

I think I will settle for a John Hissey and Sarah Champ both of Beenham as parents of Elizabeth. There seem to have been older siblings Mary, Joseph, Sarah and Robert. It still makes her a little old for marriage and children but I will leave it there until I can get to actual records.

I take your point re:wikitree but was reassured by the reference to "British Isles Vital Records" as source. I will try and delete the marriage there - that, at least, we know(!) to be incorrect.

Thanks again

Yes, that is the marriage. I can't find the marriage register online.

I have had a brief look around, but the only William Hissey in the area seems to have been deported to Australia - maybe he came back, I think some did - but I see no Elizabeth as a daughter. Maybe there was a different William.

I have 'my' Elizabeth Hissey as dying in Iffley - which I had presumed to be her mother's (Mary Allin) family home. My primary source seems to have been wikitree https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Hissey-1 where the info appears to have come from Salt Lake City records. I will try and check one day at our local Family History Centre, but, presumably, the info will be the same.

BUT, of course, you are right, marriage at 40 and then 3 sons seems very unlikely.

Going back to the first post, Mary Allin, 1711, married John Hissey (V) in Magdalen College 19 Feb 1739. They had 3 sons (John (VI), Richard and Jonathon whilst at Longworth and a daughter Elizabeth, born in Beenham. It is Elizabeth who connects with my family via the Lovelocks, but I would be interested to know why they went to Beenham as the seem to have returned to Lonngworth (and Mary subsequently back to Iffley)