I'm trying to link my ancestor, William Vickress (bp. 12 april 1787 Hope-under-Dinmore) to a larger Vickress family from Hope-under-Dinmore whose tree I have drawn up with the help of FamilySearch records and a public tree on Ancestry.
My William was the son of William Sr. and Mary, and the only candidates I found married in nearby Wellington, William Vickress and Mary Williams, married on 12 Jul 1784, which fits with a birth of a Mary Williams in Wellington in 1763.
William Sr.'s birth and parentage is where the mystery begins. An old contact suggested William Vickress (bp. 29 Apr 1764 Wellington) was my William's father, but I haven't found the entry on FamilySearch. Furthermore, this William is supposed to be the son of Thomas Vickress and Mary Harris (marriage recorded Bodenham 1755).
There are two possible Thomas Vickress I can find who could have "done the job":
Nr 1. The son of Edward and Susanna Vickress, b. Bodenham 1740.
Nr 2. The son of William and Ann Vickress, b. Hope 1729.
(I know one of the above married Susannah Cox in 1761 in Hope - Nr 2?- so the other was probably my William's grandfather...)
This is a stab in the dark and a quite long-winded, but after several hours of going round in circles I wondered if anyone could help?
Note the surname is often spelt Vicarage, Viccarage, Vicaradge, Viccaridge, Vicarridge, Vickars, Vicarige...