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Are you following the Quartermaines of Rycot by chance?

My QUARTERMAINs are from Garsington, Oxfordshire and I can trace them back to around 1640.  I suspect that the family were originally from Chalgrove but have not found a link (yet!).

The Rycote QUARTERMAYNs (Richard and Sybyl) did not have any children so that branch died out.

Carr household.. 1851
The children are 3x Wheeler mmn Mullett ages 13,11,8yrs..
and 2x Carr mmn Easdon. 12 and 9yrs..

The three WHEELER children are Sarah's from her first marriage to Robert WHEELER.  They were baptised at Holy Trinity Church High Wycombe as follows:

13 Aug 1837  Harriet dau of Robert and Sarah WHEELER
13 Oct 1839  Henry son of Robert and Sarah WHEELER
17 Jul 1842  Elizabeth dau of Robert and Sarah WHEELER

The two CARR children are Joseph CARR's children from his first marriage to Ann CANNON.  GRO entries as follows:

Qtr4 1838 Wycombe Union Vol 6 Page 366 - William CARR (mother's maiden name CANNON)
Qtr3 1841 Wycombe Union Vol 6 Page 397 - Ann CARR (mother's maiden name ED.... )

I think the maiden name given in Ann's birth entry is an error.  Her baptism is recorded in High Wycombe Wesleyan Methodist Circuit:

26 Aug 1841 Ann dau of Joseph and Ann CARR of High Wycombe, aged 4 weeks

I have not found a baptism for William CARR.  There is one other birth entry in the GRO Index:

Qtr4 1843 Wycombe Union Vol 6 Page 422 - Joseph CARR (mother's maiden name CANNON)

This child died the following year and his burial is recorded at Holy Trinity Church High Wycombe:
10 Oct 1844 Joseph CARR aged 1 year

Familysearch has the baptism of Sally (a diminutive of Sarah) the daughter of William and Mary WALKER at West Wycombe on 14 May 1826.  Her parents may be the William WALKER and Mary BURGIN who married at West Wycombe on 15 October 1803.

Sarah WALKER aged 14 appears in the 1841 census at Booker together with a widowed Mary WALKER aged 55, Charlotte WALKER aged 26 and Eliza WALKER aged 19.

Hi
I am revisiting the relationship of Thomas PUSEY born 1843 and Thomas ELMES/ELMS born 1834. They are both born in Farnham Royal. I think that their mothers may be sisters and therefore they are cousins like it is written in the 1881 English census.

It seems that Thomas PUSEY and Thomas ELM(E)S were indeed cousins - their respective mothers being daughters of Henry and Jane ALMON(D).  Mary Ann, the mother of Thomas ELM(E)S, was baptised at Burnham, Bucks on 9 June 1811, and Lucy, the mother of Thomas PUSEY, was baptised at Burnham on 20 March 1814.

The surname ALMOND provides some interesting variations owing to the 'L' usually being pronounced as an 'R' and the 'D' at the end often being silent.  This being so it was no surprise to find that Mary's surname is given as ARMAN upon her marriage to Edward ELMS on 22 October 1831 at Farnham Royal, Bucks.  Lucy's surname is given as ANNON in the GRO Index when she married Thomas PUSEY (Windsor Registration District Apr/May/June Qtr 1843).

Mary Ann and Lucy's parents MAY be the Henry ALMON and Jane TAYLOR who married at Burnham, Bucks on 3 Nov 1792.  However, I can only find the following children - James bp 14 Sep 1800 (as HARMON), Charles bp 14 Nov 1802, George bp 27 Apr 1806, Lydia bp 31 Mar 1808, Mary Ann bp 9 Jun 1811 and Lucy bp 20 Mar 1814 (the last five all baptised as ALMON or ALMOND).  It would be unusual for there to be no children of a marriage for almost eight years so perhaps there were some baptised elsewhere.

Orpheus