Athalstan Corbet Marshal. Baptism 17 Feb 1827, Towyn.

[hookleg]

Hi, I can find no info at all about his parents, Thomas Marshal and Matilda Livermore.

Athalstan was baptised 17 Feb 1827 in Towyn, Merionethshire.
The family may have emigrated to Natal, South Africa at a later date as Athalstan married a girl called Susannah Russell.
I have some info about their family being shipwrecked on a trip to South Africa, near Durban, on 4 July 1850, when Susannah was 15 years old.
Many thanks for any help.

[MargP]

Hi

It looks like he was older, than the 1827 Baptist record

https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XLG3-VLN

Margp

[MargP]

A child for them

https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVSH-N8N1

Margp

[MargP]

Another child for them

https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVSH-N8JM

Margp

[hookleg]

Thanks MargP, That's a great help. Just got to find his parents now.

[hookleg]

I have baptism as 1827 from the Baptist record and failed to realise it was unlikely to be close to his date of birth. His Marriage record suggests birth in 1816. This probably makes sense because, as I understand it, Baptists do not have infant baptisms. They baptise believers by immersion, in a similar way to confirmation in C of E.

[Kay99]

I wonder if the age listed on his marriage cert was an error and he was actually 10 years younger - although the image is clear

There is a second bapt (or rather receiving into the church) for the Athalstan bapt in Towyn at the Baptist Church in Croydon 1836 and the image mentioned his previous bapt in Towyn and birth on 27 Jan 1827.   Father Thomas is listed as a W I Merchant?? https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:NYJ3-YLV

Kay

[MargP]

Good find Kay

I have found a

Thomas James Marshall
Born, 13 Jan 1829
Bapt, 18 April St Phillips Birmingham
Father, Thomas Johnson Marshall, Merchant
Mother, Elizabeth Matilda Marshall

There is an on line tree, that have his parents as, Thomas Marshall and Elizabeth Matilda Livermore,

Elizabeth was previously married, to an Orlando Williams, 14 Sep 1815 Bethnal Green, he died in 1816

Elizabeth Matilda Williams, married, Thomas Marshall, 9 Oct 1824 Bloomsbury Camden

There is also another child

Eliza Mary Marshall, 1827 Woodford Essex, I have not checked her out yet

Margp

[Kay99]

Yes - I also saw that tree  - They are together in Croydon in 1851 with Matilda  widowed and no Athalstan

I think this is the family in 1841 - again in Croydon  All not born in County

Elizabeth    Marshal 40    School M??   
Mary Marshal 20
Athelstan    Marshal 15    
Thos    Marshal     13    

At the time of her marriage to Charles Compton in 1852 1859 Eliza Mary lists her father as Thomas Marshall Gentleman

Kay