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The other day I was looking for people with the surname Martin in a Suffolk village in the late 1790s and was looking at the witnesses names. But during so, I found a William Pratt married Ann Barriot in 1794 in Little Glemham. Witnesses John Archer and Eliz Pratt (her mark). John Archer was my ancestor and he wed Mary Pratt in 1786 in a nearby village. He signed, and the signature matches the 1794 witness John Archer. I have not yet found Mary Pratt's baptism (She died in 1810 aged 51 so born c1759) but it looks like I found a couple of rellies of her when not actually concentrating on that line.
One time I was looking through an Essex parish for a baptism on one branch when I then found a baptism I had been looking for on a totally different line.
Shows how info can turn up unexpectedly, not just with new records coming online but while searching the records in the record offices.
Researching:
LONDON, Coombs, Roberts, Auber, Helsdon, Fradine, Morin, Goodacre
DORSET Coombs, Munday
NORFOLK Helsdon, Riches, Harbord, Budery
KENT Roberts, Goodacre
SUSSEX Walder, Boniface, Dinnage, Standen, Lee, Botten, Wickham, Jupp
SUFFOLK Titshall, Frost, Fairweather, Mayhew, Archer, Eade, Scarfe
DURHAM Stewart, Musgrave, Wilson, Forster
SCOTLAND Stewart in Selkirk
USA Musgrave, Saix
ESSEX Cornwell, Stock, Quilter, Lawrence, Whale, Clift
OXON Edgington, Smith, Inkpen, Snell, Batten, Brain