Hi Deb,
I currently have this family as shown below. It has never been posted on the website because the whole tree of which this is just a part is too speculative. It seems that the William attributed to the marriage cannot be the William shown as he could never have been a pensioner when only 21 years old. I am finding it hard to believe that William Traies the soldier who definitely was a pensioner and would have been about 61 if he married in 1819, married a young lady of child bearing age and brought up a family so late in life ... but he wanted to be looked after and had a pension and she wanted security so there is definitely synergy there.
FAMILY of WILLIAM TRAIES and HANNAH KNIGHT
William TRAIES
1798 c. 3May1798 Crediton, Devon. son John and Hannah TRAIES (IGI C050743)
1819 m. St Lukes, Chelsea William TRAIES and Hannah KNIGHT (Pallots Index)
1840 d. ?.?.1840?.
Hannah KNIGHT
Nothing more known.
NOTE: The Hannah TRAIES who married Robert HUNT in 1853 is unlikley to be this Hannah as that Hannah appears to have produced two children.
Jane TRAIES
1819 c. 26Sep1819 St Luke, Chelsea, London. Jane daur William and Hannah TRAIES (IGI C067053)
Thomas William TRAIES
1823 c. 13Apr1823 St Luke, Chelsea, London Thomas William son William and Hannah TRAIES (IGI C067053)
James TRAIES
1824 b. 30Jul1824 )
1826 c. 30Jul1826 ) St Luke, Chelsea, London. James son William and Hannah TRAIES (IGI C067053)
1869 d. ?Chelsea, London James Traies age 46 (Chelsea RD Oct-Nov-Dec 1869 1a 64)
Henry TRAIES
1828 c. 12Oct1828. St. James, Paddington, London. Henry son of William, labourer, and Hannah TRAIES (P71 register mf LMA)
?1855 d. Strand, London. Henry Traies (Strand RD Apr-May-Jun 1855 1b 278)
The Jane baptism accounts for one of the burials, the Thomas burial could easily be another son Thomas who died young.
The Thomas died 1823 aged 24 is strange - could it be from another unrecorded marriage of William? - he had been invalided out of the army shortly before the birth of this Thomas.
I am now going to look into the 1839 Mary Ann Frais burial at Hoxton.
This is fascinating,
Bob