« Reply #6 on: Tuesday 13 March 18 19:49 GMT (UK) »
I'm not suggesting that anyone here would do this, but once you get back before civil registration and censuses it can be very easy to attach the wrong parents to an individual. For instance someone with the right name died and left a Will naming a son or sons who fit with known family history. But parents weren't always that imaginative regarding children's names and there could be more than one family in the same locality fitting the criteria. A parallel family of ag labs may have left very little trace of their existence beyond cmb records and certainly no Will. Is your William son of William and Mary the one who inherited several acres and a cow, or the one who could hope for nothing more than to survive infancy and have children of his own who might possibly support him if he made old bones?
For the most part in my own tree I've found that my mainly tradesmen and ag lab ancestors were the sons and daughters of other tradesmen and ag labs. The latter part of the 19th century saw a couple of family members (not direct ancestors) "make good" but nothing to suggest it was due to anything other than their own hard graft. Sadly nobody was seriously moneyed - not then, not now!
Jane :-)
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BARR, BARRATT, BERRY, BRADLEY,BRAMLEY,BRISTOW,BROWN,BUGBIRD,BUTLER
CAIN,CARR,CHAPMAN,CHARLES,CH*LTON,CHESTER,COCKETT
COLLASON,COLLYER,CORKERY
DARLING, DENYER,DICKERSON,DOLLING,DURBAN
FARMER,FURNELL
GIBSON,GILES,GROOMBRIDGE
HALL,HAMBIDGE,HARMES,HART,HICKS,HILL,HOLLOWAY
JACKSON
K*AT*S
LANCASTER,LINTON
MCDONALD,MCFADEN,MEARS,MILLARD
NICOLAS,NOAK,NORTH
PARFIT,PORTER
RIPPINGALE,ROBINS
SEARLE,SPENCER,STEDHAM
TYLER,TILLY,TUCKWELL
WADE,WAGER,WALKER,WATSON,WEBB,WITHRINGTON,WOOD