Addison Family

[Geoff-E]

I think perhaps you have it sussed Pam.

Perhaps I'll send you one of my posers to sort! 

[pamthomas]

John Addisons suitable to be the father of Christopher Wales/Addison currently seem to be a little thin on the ground - always assuming that John was born in Lincolnshire and was possibly between 20 and 30 years old when he fathered Christopher.

Babs is convinced that the John baptised in Sleaford in 1771 is the one; though I think he died in 1778, and his parents had a further son they called John who was baptised in 1780. (See my posts #2 and #4 earlier in this thread for the PR entries.)
The 1780-born John should be too young to be the father. 

There are no John's baptised in the extant PRs for parishes in Calcewaithe and Candleshoe deanery between 1754 and 1812, and as ndexed by Lincolnshire Family History Society.
http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/LIN/Deans/calcewaith.html
There is though a Rebekah Wales baptised in Orby on 3 Feb 1771. Lincs Archives seem to have messed up the first 1 or 2 pages pf the relevant Orby register, so I can't give a link.Her parents were 'Wm and Eliz' (sic).

However, bearing in mind that John Addison and Rebecca Wales married in Freiston Geoff-E's finds earlier in this thread make sense, and completely change the criteria for John Addison.

I don't have time to verify anything at the moment but there is a marriage which may complicate things ...

28 June 1808 at Freiston
William WEBBER to Rebecca ADDISON (widow)  - 2nd on left here http://www.lincstothepast.com/Records/RecordDisplayTranscript.aspx?oid=525205&iid=244047

I've now found the burial at Freiston of a John ADDISON (67) on 10 May 1808
then Rebecca WEBBER was buried at Frieston 11 Oct 1822 aged 49. 

Rebecca's burial age of 49 means a birth date of 1773 - which is near enough 1770. 
John's burial age of 67 in 1808 means however that his birth year is somewhere around 1741. Which is not even remotely near 1771, so I think the Johns born in Sleaford in 1771 and 1780 can be safely ruled out. 

ADDED: I suspect that John was born somewhere on the eastern side of the county, but more precise than that I wouldn't like to say. A Matthew Addison married in 1740 in Saltfleetby St Peter, though I might just be indulging in wishful thinking that might be a lead.

[pamthomas]

I think perhaps you have it sussed Pam.

Perhaps I'll send you one of my posers to sort! 

I don't think I've got any brain cells left now Geoff. 
I can't take all the credit for (hopefully!) sussing it though because various people had posted details.
The only other problem with most of my theory/theories is that Babs says that John died in Barbados (though she doesn't say how old he was, nor how she knows for certain), and that might blow your Freiston burial sky-high.