I am researching my links with the Darby family of Ewhurst, beginning with Thomas Darby and Mary then via William Darby and Lydia Baker and their daughter Mary.
I have been unable to confirm the maiden name of Mary who married Thomas I assume some time before 1710 when their daughter Anne was born. Possibilities are Thomas and Mary Porteous married Hastings 1703 or Thomas and Mary Kine married Dallington 1709. There is a birth and death record in Dallington for the daughter of the latter, namely Mary 1713-1717. There is also a burial for Mary wife of Thomas in Wadhurst 1745, but nothing to connect everything together. Thomas's death and burial details are unknown.
For the parents of Lydia Baker, there appears to be one family living in Ewhurst at the time but I have been unable to find a link, namely Thomas Baker and Jane Rogers who married in Ewhurst in 1704. There is a period between 1709 and 1713 where no children are recorded where Lydia could fit.
William and Lydia had a son William born 1741, could he have married Katherine Creece in Rye 1768.
There is also an unknown daughter born 1748, could this have been Karen-Happuch, wife of John Bull who was burried in Ewhurst 1828 aged 80.
I am also interested in a marriage in Ewhurst in 1736 between a John Darby and Ruth Baker, possibly sibblings or cousins of William and Lydia, but I have been unable to trace them anywhere.
If anyone has anything that may help, I would be very grateful.