Wisborough Green marriage - Thomas Stone

[mike175]

I am searching for the birth of Thomas Stone of Slaugham, Sussex who married Ann Hunt in Wisborough Green on 10 April 1787.

The IGI has a submitted record giving the birthdate as "about 1756", which may be nothing more than a guess. The only Slaugham baptism I can find around the right date is 5 May 1771, which would mean he was married at about 16 years of age.

If anyone has access to the Wisborough Green records, I wonder if there are any indications as to his age at the time of the marriage or even the names his parents.

I would be grateful for any help 

Mike.

[swebby]

The only extra information from the SMI is the following:

Both of the Parish (Banns)

Witnesses: Wm Bridger, Jas Smither

Regards

Sean

[sillgen]

Slaugham records are on the IGI Batch number C071071 so if he is not showing up in an extracted record then you may need to widen the search.   There are quite a few Stone entries but not a Thomas at the right time as you say.   Though he may have been baptised as an older child I have looked at the actual entry and there is nothing to indicate that.   
Cuckfield church is very close and the registers are on the IGI but only female baptisms.  How do you know he was from Slaugham?
Andrea

[mike175]

Many thanks for the extra information, Sean . . . it's always good to add a few more details to the record.

Andrea, I'm afraid the Slaugham connection came from a submitted record on the IGI via someone else's tree, so it may well be wrong.  Thomas' family was the subject of a Settlement Certificate issued at Pulborough in 1792, the foreign parish being Ockley, Surrey. I thought he might have been born in Pulborough but there don't seem to be any Stone baptisms there before the 1790s, on the IGI. There were plenty at Ockley, back to the 1500s, but he doesn't seem to be there either.

The Thomas baptized on 5 May 1771 at Slaugham had parents named Thomas & Sarah, the same names as Thomas' & Ann's first two children . . . not uncommon names, but quite a coincidence 

Thanks for your help.

Mike.

[Taxman Bob]

Hi Mike,

Did you ever find out where Thomas came from? I have been searching for him for many years without success.

I am pretty sure that Slaugham is wrong and it is quite possible that he did come from the Ockley area - as mentioned by the Poor Law settlement form.
And Ockley is just a couple of miles from Wisborough Green ( but so also is Slaugham!)

Cheers,

Bob

[mike175]

Hi Bob,

I'm afraid I never managed to confirm Thomas's origins. The Settlement forms certainly imply that he came from Ockley, not Slaugham, but I still haven't matched him up with any of the Stones in either place.

I have speculated that he might have been born at Ockley but baptised a few years later at Slaugham, as Andrea suggested above. As I noted then, the parents at that baptism bore the same names as Thomas's first two children.

Sorry I can't be of more help at present.

Mike.

PS. Haven't we already exchanged information by email? 

[Taxman Bob]

Hi Mike,

I expect we have exchanged information before - does your surname start Par?

I have been in touch with lots of distant cousins and now I am in the middle of writing down a Stone family history for my family and closer cousins.

Best wishes,

Bob

[mike175]

Bob,

Yes, you very kindly sent me a bundle of photocopies a few months ago, for which I am still in your debt.

I started a book on the wider family a few years ago and have written several chapters. The Stones should be next, when I manage to find the time 

The biggest problem is having to rewrite several pages every time I find out some new information.

Mike.

[Taxman Bob]

Hi Mike,

Yes, of course. I was confused! I don't use RootsChat very often and didn't realise who you were!

I have almost completed my first draft of the Stone chapter of my book - but it mainly concerns James Stone and his son Benjamin. I will soon be showing it to some first cousins soon and ask for amendments and any other information or photos they have.
 Best wishes,

Bob