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« on: Thursday 11 February 21 15:54 GMT (UK) »
I finally found them by ticking all the variant boxes including the ones left blank!! Now of course the mystery has just got a lot worse.!! Egerton Adams was born 17/5/1733 and registered in Uttoxeter. Parents given as Joseph and Elisabeth. So far so good. He was one of five children the first Dorothy 1720, Joseph 1721, Mary 1725 and Hannah 1727. Now the mystery begins. The parents were living at Marchington but got married at Hamstall Ridware some 10 miles away by license. Why? The first child Dorothy was born in Marchington, the 2nd Joseph in Checkley, and the 3rd and 4th in Darlaston some 36 miles away. More mysterious and then they 'came back' for Egerton to be born in Uttoxeter. Does all this ring true to anyone? I have a birthdate for Elisabeth of 1695 which seems to fit but I cannot find a birth or death for Joseph which seems to fit. Was he older and they ran away or perhaps too young? Any thoughts welcome.