Westgate family

[spower]

I'm looking for an Anthony Westgate who was born in 1720 in Chalvington, East Sussex. He is very elusive but in 1750 there is an Anthony Westgate who marries Sarah Mace in Swanscombe, Kent and starts a family there. Before that date there do not appear to be any Westgates in Swanscombe and Anthony is described as coming from Northfleet although I can't find him, or any other Westgates, in the parish records there either.

Can any of you lovely people offer any clues?

SP

[ColC]

I’m not sure if any of this will help. The only thing in Sussex is the apprenticeship below. Given the naming pattern of Anthony & Sarah’s children I think it could be him. You probably know the rest.

Anthony Westgate of Waldron Sussex Apprentice (father Thomas a Cordwainer)
Registration year 1738 Premium £30. Master John Olive Bricklayer Waldron Sussex


All the following at St.Peter St.Paul, Swanscombe, Kent

Anthony Westgate married Sarah Mace 29 Oct 1750
Children’s, baptisms:
Anthony 11 Jun 1751 – he married Elizabeth Fry 10 Jan 1776
Hannah 6 May 1753 – she married Thomas Fry 28 Jun 1776
Thomas 24 Nov 1754 – he married Mary Reed 25 Apr 1780 and died a month later
Sarah 8 May1757) burial 1767
Mary 7 Apr 1759    ) burial 1767

Anthony Westgate Burial 15 Nov 1775
Sarah Westgate Burial 16 Dec 1773


Anthony Westgate Burial 5 or 25 Feb 1776 (son of Anthony & Elizabeth)

Mary baptised 9 July 1780. Mother Mary wife of Thomas (Deceased)
Ann Westgate baptised 1786. Mother Mary, no father named.


Colin