Hi Sue
Winchester local Studies & archives
http://www3.hants.gov.uk/archivesParish registers covered link
http://www3.hants.gov.uk/archives/hals-collections/hals-parish-registers.htmEnter Stephen Cole or Coles in the search engine and
if you can get to Winchester you can view the originals.Poor Law, overseer land tax,
Tithes Terriers - well alsorts
http://www3.hants.gov.uk/archives/catalog.htmIf you can't go to Winchester? you could write, Email or phone for of the copy
of the Richard Cole marriage to Sarah 1738 the parish Entry.
With this being a known date (They do need to search and can go straight to it )
they will only charge post and copy charge (about £2 tops) or you send a cheque
with a SAE at agreed price.
Basingstoke or Guildford may also have the marriage on micro film.
As you will know pre 1837 GRO BMDs and 1841 census and No parent on parish marriages
its a different ball game and you can never be 100 % unless Wills and other supporting
doc's come to light
What we do is use logic and Epistemology to work it out!
Binsted was Stephen marriage place and Richard the only marriage and family that fit Binsted those
years and Elimination of other Stephen bapt and marriages of said years.
Baptisms and birth can be years apart and they had private baptisms also as I said the old PR's can be
unreadable even moth/mouse/ wear eaten holes in them that far back.
I have little doubt!! I think ! Richard was Stephen father and the other baptism 1737 Stephen of Stoke Charity was the Romsey marriage in 1760's
MI's and grave stones in village graveyards in gruops of family surnames names and the epitath are the best source telling a true picture.
Dave from Yorkshire
