Robert Sapy DEXTER (C 1823 Ringstead?- )

[ARDEXT]

THANK YOU ALL!
Thats him/them in 1851
The marriage register entry said that he was living at Whincep Street -- (At least that is what it looks like to me.) She was living at Tuesday Market Place.

And I think that you are correct on the Snettisham marriage too.  (Is Snettisham located nearby?)

And I think you have his parents Ann and Thomas as well.

SO now I am even more confused.  Four days earlier in 1851  he was called/calling himself? Robert Sapy DEXTER and now at the census he is Robert SEAPY.  In all of the other census years he is a DEXTER.  So lets say he was born two years before his parents married in 1825.  Why would he call himself DEXTER rather than SEAPY/SAPY?  


Rick

[CaroleW]

So lets say he was born two years before his parents married in 1825

I wouldn't think that Thomas was necessarily his biological father.  It's more likely that either Ann was previously married or - more likely - that Robert was her illegitimate son

If Thomas brought him up - he probably adopted the Dexter surname when he married whilst retaining his birth surname as his middle name

If he was born within a legitimate marriage - he may not have adopted the Dexter surname - but that's just a personal opinion

[ARDEXT]

Thank you Carole. I hadnt quite thought of it that way. Now-- how would I go about finding a baptism for him??  It would seem Ringstead is the likely place -- since Ann (his possible mother) claims birth there too.  Do you know if the Ringstead PRs exist?

[CaroleW]

Hi

Sorry I don't - perhaps somebody with more knowledge of Norfolk will be able to help with that info

[avm228]

It looks from this link as though the Ringstead St Andrew baptisms are to be transcribed but have not yet been done/completed:

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~tinstaafl/#R

(which at least suggests that they still exist!)