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Seeking information about the origins of Sarah ROW(E) who married Henry JAMES at Penally on 8 Jun 1833.

According to the 1851, 1861 & 1871 censuses she was born at Carew, Pembs.

In 1841 & 1851 Sarah JAMES was with her husband on Caldey Island [which is formally part of the mainland parish of Penally]. She was aged 30-34 in 1841 and 38 in 1851.

According to familysearch they were in Carew in 1861 (when she was aged 55) and 1871 (aged 63).

There were two known children, Anne baptised at Penally quite promptly after her marriage, and Joseph, born c.1836-7 at Carew.

Also on Caldey Island in 1851 were the families of George ROWE senior (aged 60, born Carew) and George ROWE junior (aged 29, born Carew), both quarrymen. There were quarries on Caldey Island and also very extensive quarries in West Williamston, which I think is in Carew parish. Can anyone link her to them?

I have three Miss Topes in different branches of my family tree, and as Tope does not seem a very common name, wondered whether this might be more than a coincidence. The three are:
Sarah Tope probably born c.1753
Grace Tope probably born in the 1740s
Esther Tope probably born c.1753

Thomas Wills of Exeter (c.1752-1819) a slater and plasterer of Exeter Holy Trinity, married Sarah Tope of Exeter St Sidwell as his second wife on 22 May 1791 at Exeter St Sidwell. If I have correctly identified her as the Sarah Wills buried at Exeter St Pauls on 30 Aug 1828 aged 75, she would have been born c.1753. This marriage produced four children baptised at Exeter Holy Trinity or Exeter St Mary Major between Apr 1792 and Feb 1797. The youngest, William, is my great-great-grandfather.

This William Wills of Exeter Holy Trinity married Grace Veasey at Berry Pomeroy in 1819. Her paternal grandmother was a Grace Tope, who married Thomas Veasey at Berry Pomeroy, which is just across the river from Totnes and home to slate quarries whose produce was doubtless shipped to Exeter slaters. Grace Veasey's paternal grandmother was Grace Tope, who married Thomas Veasey at Berry Pomeroy on 7 Aug 1768. Thomas & Grace Veasey had 10 children bapt at Berry Pomeroy between Jan 1769 and Jun 1782, before Grace was buried there in Jul 1784. Grace Tope was presumably born in the 1740s.

Thomas Veasey then remarried on 12 May 1786 at Berry Pomeroy to an Esther Tope, and Thomas & Esther had 4 more children bapt at Berry Pomeroy between Jan 1787 and Jun 1794. Esther Veasey of Bridgetown, Berry Pomeroy, was buried there in Jun 1820 aged 67, so born c.1753.

So, my tree has three Miss Topes, all born in the 1740s or early 1750s. Can anyone connect them?

My great grandmother Mary Ann was born 23 Feb 1844 at Canon Street, St James, Somerset. Her mother was Mary Phillips and her father Job Parsons, carpenter. The birth entry noted that she was to be brought up as Mary Ann Parsons. All the later censuses I have found her in give her birthplace as Taunton, Somerset.

My next trace of her is her first marriage at St Mary, Tenby, Pembrokeshire on 24 Sep 1864, as Mary Ann Phillips, to William Sendell, a woodcarver (and also born in Somerset) when she is given no father. This marriage was witnessed by David Phillips and Ann Phillips.

Does anyone have any sighting of her between these events? Family memories are that she was brought up by two aunts either in Taunton or Tenby (cousins disagree), memories supported by a family bible she used to own, but I can't find her anywhere. Twenty years later she married again, in Exeter, and by then she had a presumably fictitious father (John Phillips, a deceased brewer), suitable for a respectable marriage to John Veasey Wills, an auctioneer.

Seeking information about the birth, baptism or family of Susan COX, born c.1845 in Ruardean, Glos (according to the 1901 census).

She married John JONES, a plasterer, at some date before 1868 and lived in and around Coleford, Glos, from <1868->1901.

John