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At the moment I think it’s a resounding YES !
I know everything about Louisa from the age of thirteen. I now have evidence to link the other Maslin’s together.
When you mention christenings ,I’ve a feeling that that Amelia and Sarah were baptised but later.
I do know that Louisa’s step children ( from a relation ship her husband John had,don’t ask !!!) were christened at least twice as children and then as adults so there is a bit of a pattern in that bit of the family.
Many thanks again. I’ll now need to get it all down on paper ! Or computer !✨🌟✨

Hi all !
I am totally blown away by this research ! Completely understand the “possible” links in all this but it makes so much sense.
Upavon was where my late Aunt thought Sarah may have been born as the illegitimate daughter of an Elizabeth!
To say I’m excited by all of your efforts and everything you have all done is putting it mildly !
I just want to phone my Dad and Aunt to tell them but of course they have already died.
I am so sorry that I can’t thank you all personally….you have no idea how much this means to me.
As a child I was brought up thinking everyone did genealogy and I’d picked up so much info along the way. Then I started working with my Dad and Aunt and looking things up for them eg National Archives online. My study is full of our research. To complicate matters the John Perry that Louisa Elizabeth marries inherited a huge amount of money,shares,land and property in around 1870.
That was one of the reasons the reasearch began. Where and why had all the money gone ?
Don’t worry….i know a
L the answers to that part of the story !
I really love the explanation that is fact and fiction because that is how we solved the later part.
Begin with facts with evidence, look for strong possibilities to either include or exclude ( with evidence) and continue checking every bit. And then of course going back to check again as new info is released and is on line or has access.
I am so grateful. Thank you for such wonderful research. Now to get my brain up a gear or two and set to work !!! ✨🌟✨

Louisa states on her marriage cert that her father is George. Because I found no evidence of him I wondered if she was recording George Evitt but naming him George Maslin ! Of course this supposition with no evidence.
I can’t follow through the amazing info at the moment due to a big family gathering here !
I’ll be back on line later.
Thank you so much to all of you for helping with so much work !
I am so grateful !✨🌟✨

Lizzie L,
I’ve posted many bits of the story. I have a whole study floor to ceiling with research files.
It’s obsessive ! I have to put it back and return later. Louisa Elizabeth Maslin’s birth is the one huge brick wall !
I know an unbelievable amount about her life due to solicitors documents and hand written personal letters lodged in the Chippenham Records Office but can not find her parents or her birth.
Due to certain “ inconsistencies” it would not surprise me if her giving 1821 as her date of birth is wrong.
I also think she may not have known where she was born and used Covent Garden as she thought it was acceptable !
I wouldn’t have thought of France except seeing some references when searching for something else. And I do know she went to France as one of her letters to solicitors asking for money refers to being there. I’d assumed it was because she was a milliner but it just might be something else.
Thank you for your help.

Ashton,
Louisa gives her place of birth as Covent Garden. I’ve read christening documents until I’ve fallen asleep and then looked again at them !
Also checked Wiltshire.
My Aunt was suspicious that Louisa was the illegitimate child of an Elizabeth Maslin but I don’t know how she thought that….thinking out of the box I guess.
I’ve searched Wiltshire records and did wonder about Urchfont but no other link.
Louisa Elizabeth’s husband John Perry inherited a huge amount of money,property and land in the Devizes area. On his death ,six months later, his only legitimate child Mary Sarah Sissons Perry inherited.Louisa then lives with married daughter. Y 1895 all the money,land,shares ,property had gone. There is even a letter to the solicitor saying sell the silver candlesticks as we can’t support our six boys. Her husband John Biggs Banks was an estate manager and they lived in a large Tudor house outside Newbury. They moved to Enfield( now in London) as Great grandfather John Biggs Bank’s managed to get a job as a store man in the Royal Small Arms Factory where the Enfield Rifle was made.
I have the detailed records of Louisa’s life in the lunatic asylum. It’s talks of an unpleasant woman mumbling about being rich. It’s so very hard to know that my great great grandmother was being treated like this. She had been rich and had single handed lay brought up her daughter having my great grandmother educated in French,pianoforte,a little arithmetic,dance and Geography. They had to bring red flannel petticoats to wear and a silver spoon !
I have had huge amounts of help over the years on this site for which I am so grateful.
My late Dad and Aunt called me their custodian not the owner of this work and it must be passed on to the next generation.
I know everyone thinks their own family is wonderful but I’ve been told by many I should try to write this as a book.There are so many unusual incidents that it would make a wonderful tv drama.
And I haven’t even mentioned the part of this family that went to the USA to San Francisco around 1868 ! Or another branch who were Welsh and went to Philadelphia around 1871 !
Or the fact I could never understand why great uncles all survived WW11….They lived in or near Ordnance Road Enfield Wash and so all had protected jobs as they worked making armaments. They would not be called up to fight though there were Zeppelins overhead !Had they remained in Berkshire or their parents had not lost the wealth ,they would have all been called up to the Wiltshire/ Berkshire Regiments and probably lost their lives.
Thank you for putting up with my genealogical rants but it’s all so very important to me. The choices and efforts these people made make me who I am now.