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Having spent a few profitable hours in the record office in Maidstone, I have a puzzle from the records

I have found the following records for Ulcombe in Kent

Baptisms

28/3/1812 Mary Ann to Thomas & Sarah Wells
12/11/1813 William to Thomas & Sarah Wells
21/1/1816 Thomas to Thomas & Sarah Wells
14/6/1818 James to Thomas & Sarah Wells
17/10/1822 Sarah to Thomas & Sarah Wells
6/4/1828 Mary Anne to Thomas & Sarah Wells alias Luckhurst
13/12/1830 Lewis to Thomas & Sarah Wells alias Luckhurst
3/11/1833 George to Thomas & Sarah Wells commonly called Luckhurst

Burials

8/5/1812 Mary Ann daughter of Thomas & Sarah Wells - infant
8/10/1837 George Wells alias Luckhurst aged 4 years


Should I be assuming that Luckhurst was Sarah's maiden name (I cannot find a marriage record) and the parish clerk was being pedantic, or am I missing something somewhere? The families are down as Wells in the censuses.

Can anyone advise?

Thanks

Chris

Hi Pauline

Yes he was a cabinet maker

is this him?

and do you know the name of the family he was lodging with?

Cheers

Chris

I've got him in 1851 from his dau's birth cert. but the family vanishes until his son appears with family in 1881.

in 1851 I have

James La Roche, 25, Surrey St Geo. the Martyr, Plasterer
Elizabeth, 25, St geo the Martyr
James, 3, City of London
Elizabeth, 2, Surrey, Christchurch

only the son James is ever heard of again and not until his marriage in 1872

no trace of any of their deaths on 1837online 1852-1881

its very frustrating

I thought James' (senior) mother's death cert. might flush him out as informant, but she was run over by an omnibus and the coroner was informant!


Oh Well - the joys of genealogy


Cheers

Chris

Smashing Sal

Thanks a million

both of them and their married daughter into the bargain

now I've just got to find out who this new neice is!


Cheers