Looking for marriage of Thomas Child and Elizabeth

[LizzieL]

Thomas Child and his wife Elizabeth baptised 12 children in Pulborough between 1770 and 1790. I guess from this production pattern they would be in their early - to mid twenties when they married and expect a marriage to be about 1768/9. But I can't find a likely marriage, please can anyone help?

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A considerable number of Ancestry trees have Thomas marrying Elizabeth Furlonger in Ewhurst on 3 April 1768. But that Thomas and Elizabeth were baptising children in Ewhurst at the same time as mine were baptising children in Pulborough, so that can't be the right marriage

[Annette7]

There was another marriage in Surrey the year before by Marriage Licence (on FindMyPast):

Thomas Child of Hascombe, Surrey married Elizabeth Street of Dunsfold, Surrey on 13/12/1767 Dunsfold.   (Thomas being of Hascombe does not necessarily mean he was from that parish, just where he was living (working) at the time).   

Thomas Child aged 66 buried 24/3/1813 Pulborough on FreeReg i.e. bc.1746/7 (can't see a burial there for wife Elizabeth).

Familysearch shows a Thomas Child bp.26/8/1746 Dunsfold, son of Thomas (no mothers name shown) which could be him.

Annette

[LizzieL]

Thank you that looks a possibility. The burial in Pulborough of Thomas Child says he was a blacksmith and there is an apprentice tax entry dated 1762 for a Thomas Child apprenticed to John Baxter a blacksmith in Hascombe. 1762 is when tax paid on apprenticeship not necessarily when it started, but would fit quite well with Thomas being born abt 1746/7 (calculated from age on burial record).

[LizzieL]

There's a later burial of a Thomas in Pulborough (1845), his age at death would make his birth about 1768/9, so possibly a first child of Thomas snr and Elizabeth. Can't find his baptism at Pulborough.

[Annette7]

I suspect that this may be Elizabeth Street's baptism on familysearch:

Elizabeth Street bp.4/3/1748 Chiddingfold, Surrey, dau. of William Street.

I noted that T & E did not have a son Thomas baptised at Pulborough and have just found this on familysearch:

Thomas Child bp.July 1768 Chiddingfold, Surrey, son of Thomas.   It was a common practice for the first child to be baptised in the mothers home parish.

Annette   

[LizzieL]

I'd just found the Chiddingfold baptism as well, thank you for finding a possible baptism for Elizabeth, that makes it more likely it's the right family. Unfortunately I can't find Thomas jnr in 1841 to see if he was bic or not. He may not have been living in Pulborough, but brought back there  for burial.

[Annette7]

Just realised I got the day wrong for the marriage - should be 15th December 1767 (just seen that FreeReg have got this incorrectly listed as 1777 not 1767 (as it is on familysearch, FindMyPast and Ancestry).

Annette

[Annette7]

Thomas Child is in Pulborough in 1841 but surname transcribed as Chield - shown as not born in county.   He was also a Blacksmith.

Plus think I've found Elizabeth's burial - as Childs - at Pulborough on 21/7/1828 aged 79.

Annette

[LizzieL]

Thanks again, so that fits with Thomas jnr born in Surrey not Sussex.
And I 've found a marriage for Thomas (even more snr) to Mary Baxter in Dunsfold on 26 May 1743. And his son was apprenticed to a John Baxter (maybe related)