Hello Jan,
Thank you so much for all your help first of all. About Daniel bapt: 15h Jan 1826 in Headley. No doubt his about his parentage. Father Henry Courtnage and I believe Charlotte Hounsome. By way of Census tracking I found Daniel on the 1851Census with his wife nee Frances Kewell. He is 25. Now the only facility I have open to me is the IGI. I cannot acces Parish Registers which would be a primary source. I cannot find a marriage between a Henry Courtnage and a Charlotte around 1825, which is why I believed he was Henry and Charlotte Hounsome's Son, but I accept what you say about her age.
There is a marriage between another Henry Courtnage and Charlotte Mooney on 31st May 1874 which is too far in the future. Therefore, the last five children I listed cannot be from that union.
I know when Henry married Charlotte Hounsome it never said he was widowed. However, I believe Henry's 1st marriage was to Sarah Mitchel in 1793 at Kirdford. The had a total of 7 children. The first recorded birth was for charlotte in 1796, so its possible Sarah had other children before , that could have died. Her last child Shadrach was a nightmare. He ended up in a penal colony in Tasmania and died there.
The Henry you speak of born in 1801 was baptised in Lurgashall. In fact when Charlotte was born in 1796 they were living in Selbourne, moved to Lurgashall and had Sarah 1799, and Henry 1801. By 1804 they were in Treyford where Harriet was born, then onto Bepton where Ann was born in 1807, followed by Charles in 1811 and Shadrach in 1813 leaving Henry widowed by October 1814 aged about 38. Henry Snr then marries Charlotte Hounsome in 1816; has Eliza in 1817 and John in 1819 in Bepton and the rest are born in Headley.
As all these children up to Emily in 1838 are recorded as having parents as Henry & Charlotte, by process of illimination, I believed they were of that union, but that doesn't make me correct.
Henry and Charlotte's Son James died aged 10 months and was buried on 1st July 1826 in Headley. They were living in the Parish House then in Headley itself. They also had another daughter called Caroline who appears to have been baptised twice -privately and publicly? in 1828. So, the question is, is Daneil 1826 the Son of Henry and Charlotte Housome or the Son of Henry of 1801 henry Courtnage who I believe died/buried 2nd December 1875 aged 78 years - I just don't know. I am satisfied that I have found all the marriages of the children born to Henry and Sarah Mitchell with the exception of Henry.
I cannot find him anywhere on the 1851 census at all. I am loathed to get it wrong Jan because it means so much to me. Any views as to where I go from here?
Lesley
