dear david i have a descendant of the james stocker and louisa bowditch marriage in my genealogy class that i hold at the village she would like to research james ancestry as mary ann lenton did not marry james parsons after giving birth to james, she only edward stocker in 1861 gwen
Salisbury Charter Trustees: The Chartered Borough Workhouse and Municipal Poor Relief Register of bastardy examinations Mother's surname: Lenton; Christian name: Mary Ann; Parish: Borough; Father's surname: Parsons; Christian name: James; Parish and occupation: Bemerton toll renter - ref. G23/1/147/52 - date: 1853
Bemerton is on the edge of Salisbury, but I can't find a James Parsons in either 1851 or 1861 with an occupation of Toll renter, or anything similar
To save possible duplication I suggest that any further posts be on the new thread that you opened on the Wiltshire board following my post at 00.54 this morning. In any event I think it's been firmly established that Cambridgeshire is a red herring so far as James Lenton/Stocker/Parsons is concerned