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I was hoping someone could tell me where families living in Drayton Bassett would have baptised their children? William Hewitt (born c.1756) married Elizabeth Dunton 16 July 1781 at Tamworth. The banns and the marriage entry say that William was of Drayton parish. William died in 1840 so missed out on the 1841 census unfortunately. William baptised his own children at Hints and Tamworth but I'm struggling to find a baptism for William.

I received a copy of the 1784 removal order today and it's thrown a spanner in the works 

The removal order gives the ages of Matthew and Sarah's 6 children who are named as Sarah, aged 14, Thomas, aged 12, William, aged 7, Ann, aged 6, Elizabeth, aged 3, and Lydia, aged 9 months.

There is no mention of John (born 1768) so I'm assuming he died or moved away as he would have been about 16 at this time. This is the first time I have heard of Matthew and Sarah having a daughter named Elizabeth!
The only baptism I can find for Elizabeth is the one that took place at Dodderhill on 6 August 1780, only she was the daughter of Matthew and Elizabeth, not Matthew and Sarah. At first, I thought it may have been a clerical error but there was also a Hannah, baptised at Claines on 25 February 1759, daughter of Matthew and Elizabeth!

Am I looking at two Matthew Robbins' here? Or could it be possible that Matthew Robbins was married to Elizabeth but also having children with Sarah Wallinger at the same time? Which perhaps explains why Matthew and Sarah didn't marry until 1783.

Many thanks for everyone’s ideas and input. I think the best thing for me to next is try and view the register if that’s possible. Does anyone know if the images for the Droitwich PRs have been put online?

Thanks for both of your thoughts. I've had problems with Worcestershire parish registers before as not many seem to have been scanned, they're mostly all transcripts unfortunately! The bride had been baptised at Droitwich, St Peter which makes more sense for the marriage to have taken place there. After their marriage, John and Ann went to Worcester and obviously John was said to have been of Chaddesley Corbett. As far as I knew, neither of them had links to Pedmore which is what is confusing me