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Jayne

Thanks for your interest. I know about the marraige already, I only know he was married in the parish of St Marys, I dont know which Parish he was born in

Lorraine

Hello to you all

Thought it was time I introduced myself, I am the person whom Deb has mentioned in London, I have been doing Family research for a number of years and recently started doing a tree for my best friend. She is the granddaughter of Sophie Penfold and a very close cousin to Deb,

Deb has posted the result of my recent trip to the guildhall library and in answer to someones question, there was no occupation shown for William.

The marriage of William Smith and Ann Chance was the only marriage I could find where the bride and groom had the same name as the parents of the Slack/Smith boys. I hope it is not too much of a red herring. In the period that I looked at in Marriages and Births there were no other entries in the name of Slack which means the family were probably not local to that church, normally you would see all of the brothers and sister getting married and having families.

In my experience the fact that the three boys were baptised at the same time and when two were older normally implies that the family was new to that church or area so who knows where they came from. The other problem with that area is that there are so many churches, In fact one on most streets in the City of London and so they could have married or had other children baptised at a church around the corner and it would make it diffcult to find them.

Next time I have the chance to bunk off work early, I will go again and look in the next nearest churches to St Andrews to see if I can find anything. Will post again if I get anything new, In the meantime as long as you are not expecting a quick turnaround, I am about a 5 min walk from the Westminster City Archive and 4 tube stops from the City of London archives so I am always happy to look stuff up

Lorraine