I've been looking at the tree of Samuel Webster and Ann Rushmere of Benhall as a few Ancestry trees have been mixing its members up with the Framlingham Websters. This has been causing some false linkages to my own Webster family.
For a tree that consists of one couple and their children, it has been remarkably complicated. The children disperse to Norwich, Birmingham, London and Yarmouth. Some have multiple baptisms. For example, a Joshua Webster is baptised at Barford in Norfolk with a mother Elizabeth Rushmore and then some years later, while given exactly the same DoB, part of a family group baptism at Rendham non-conformist chapel with mother Ann Rushmere in 1812. I can find no additional marriage to account for the mother's name change.
Newspaper reports were almost as much help as Ancestry and FindMyPast and once narrowed down, more census records came into play where there had been mis-spelling of Benhall.
Some examples:
Samuel Webster late of Barford died age 68 at Wrentham in 1830, Bury and Norwich Post 7th April 1830
Norfolk News 07 March 1846 "Lately, in her 71st year after a lingering affliction, Ann, relict of Mr Samuel Webster, late of Benhall, Suffolk" (buried at New Catton)
Norfolk Chronicle + Norwich Mercury 10 February 1844: "In Sussex St in this city, after a lingering and protracted illness, John R Webster of London, youngest son of Mr Samuel Webster, late of Benhall, Suffolk."
Anyway, it is now a public tree on Ancestry. I've yet to find any evidence of descendants.
