Hi Berri
Thomas Deakins who was born in Buckland in 1838 is the brother of my Great Grand Mother. His parents were Thomas & Elizabeth as your rightly stated. I have no record of Thomas after the 1851 census.
However, Thomas Deakins who married Rachel Franklin (see tiggi's post below) is the subject of a book called 'old ways, new ways' by Lindsey Marsh & Rosie Smith who are descendants of THIS Thomas.
We (Lindsey, Rosie and myself) are desperately trying to prove that the two Thomas's are the same person, so if you have anything to prove this we will be grateful

Tiggi - someone has just sent me a post asking about the Sampson Hoadley in your post. Apparently he married a Matthews. If I can trace this then the Thomas with Rachel is definately MY Thomas as his sister married a Matthews.
Lorraine x