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Quote from: LizzieL on Sunday 26 January 25 09:50 GMT (UK)

Quote from: ktk8 on Saturday 25 January 25 19:18 GMT (UK)

Have you considered this baptism:

William Rouse, 13 Feb 1791, Gravesend St George, parents William & Sarah. (Previous entry looks like a brother, Robert.)

Thank you LizzieL
It was suggested earlier and does seem very odd to baptise two infants a week apart.
Thanks again for your suggestion.

Robert's baptism was on the 6th Feb. Odd that the same couple baptise two children a week apart.

Thankyou for your suggestion. It does seem odd.

There aren't any Rounces in the index to poor law settlement papers, 1574-1865 on FS, at any rate.

The marriage was at Gravesend St George, 10 July 1825
Parish register here, image 30 (of 55)
https://cityark.medway.gov.uk/wwwopacx/wwwopac.ashx?command=getcontent&server=files&value=P159-01-16.pdf

Both of the Parish. William and Elizabeth both signed.
Humpage was a regular witness. John Fretton was not, probably he was from the Thurrock area.

Sadly they haven't digitised the banns register.

Thank you so much for the suggestions

Thankyou ktk8
I shall have a look at the Rouse entry. There are many Rouses and Rances in the records and I often wonder whether they are mistakes. I was unable to download the city ark files.
Thank you again for your suggestions.

Hello from Australia!

Thank you Coombs, Trish1120 and Jonwarrn.

Jonwarrn, I did have the death record from st Catherine’s BDM’s  and found the name William. The parish burial record has James as you have seen. I am sure it is the correct person but do not know why the mistake in name was made. I have no record of another name, middle or otherwise for William ROUNCE d. Jan 1849. I have his marriage record with only William.

Trish1120, I have eliminated William ROUNCE and Elizabeth MARIS through censuses and marriage. However I cannot trace William ROUNCE son of Thomas ROUNCE and Sarah Soanes so it makes me think that I might be onto something but I have no idea where to look next.
There may be records of an apprenticeship. The family did not have much money in Little Thurrock so there might be records of some kind if they needed help through the church. As William ROUNCE and Sarah Soanes were married in Kent, I do not know which parish they would have belonged to.
The surname RANCE comes up in Surrey so I will have another look. I have checked many name variations such as ROUSE, ROWNCE, ROUNSE, ROUNS.

 The greatest population of ROUNCEs seem to be in Norfolk and Suffolk at this time period. I believe there were no ROUNCE baptisms in Essex before this William ROUNCE arrived in Little Thurrock after his marriage in Gravesend Kent. It looks as though all of the ROUNCES in Essex originate from his family. There were very few if any in Kent and the line in Stepney are a different family even though the children have similar names.I am leaning toward Great Yarmouth and the possibility of Thomas Rounce and Sarah Soanes being his family. I have been eliminating William Rounces through marriages, censuses  and deaths. William Rounce bpt Sept 27th, 1797, St Nicholas Great Yarmouth is the only one I cannot trace so far. You are right about just missing the 1851 census. How inconsiderate of him to die before than time.