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Hi Orpheus,

I sort of wondered if that was it, as at the time there was a chair with cane or reed seat cottage industry going on in Gt Marlow , so making skewers might have made use of the scrape wood bits left from that.

Thank you

John

Hi Michael,
I can only find 2 Edward Neales born from 1678 to 1710 in Mildenhall,  the PR is quite legible for this period, so I think this is it.

bpt 14/4/1678 s/o Henry
bpt 7/3/1695/96 s/o Daniel

Best
John

Hi  Valda,
As the bride in this marriage was only 19 what I was hoping to find was who her guardian was, as there was no father entered in the marriage license.

So I'll be following up your suggestion to contact Westminster archives.

Many thanks
John

Hi Dave,
The trouble with this Samuel Gent you show was he was born 1783 whereas
the Samuel Gent in the Wood Ditton/Saxon Street in the 1841-71 censuses say he was born 1793-6 and when he died 20/9/1872 his age is given as 78, so again born 1794.

To get his birthdate a few years out seems possible, but 11 years seems too much of a stretch. Also I seem to remember this 1783 Samuel Gent did turn up locally to Selston in the 1841 census and so I had eliminated him from my possibles.

Best
John

Hi Sawston,
I take it the Thomas Gent who married Mary Hood, was the son of Samuel & Ann ( nee Payne) bpt 1830 in Wood Ditton, Cambridgeshire. I'm decended from his brother, also a Samuel bpt 15/2/1824 in Wood Ditton.

As I said in my original query Samuel Gent Sr seemed to have arrived out of the blue in Wood Ditton and pretty rapidly had set himself up as a farmer of some 500 acres, mainly it seems raising cattle. The puzzle is all the Gent families I've been able to trace around Selston were either miners or agricultural labourers, so how did Samuel get the wherewithal to set himself up like this?

Best
John