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Hi Eric
Sampson Starmer was my great great grandfather.  My great grandfather was his son John, he doesnt appear on your list of baptisms, possibly baptised at Langriville rather than Thornton le Fen.  After a spell as an ag lab, he went to work for the Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway, and when that merged with the Cheshire Lines, he moved to Liverpool, where he was a foreman at the Brunswick Goods Yard on the Dock Road.  He married Ellen Wilkinson from Lincolnshire.  His son was my grandfather Thomas Starmer, and Tom's son was my father Stanley, born Liverpool 1910.  I have a lot of information about John's brother Charles, who emigrated to Newport News in Virginia, and also his brother Fred who went to New Zealand on the Countess of Huntingdon in 1875.  When he arrived his name was changed to Stormer.  he did OK over there, he married the farmers daughter.  His son came over in WW1 and visited the family in Liverpool and his grandson visited me there about 10 years ago.
Becca Black (nee Starmer)

My research suggests that the Colina McLeod baptised at St Peter's Liverpool in 1832 was the daughter of Colin McLeod & Margaret, she was the sister of my husband's great grandfather Norman McLeod.  She married (1) Duncan Robertson Blair in 1851, then (2) Alexander Sorbison in 1856 and died in Liverpool, Lancashire.
Becca

Hi, I am another great grand-daughter of  Edward and Catherine, my grandfather was Peter who was Sarah Ann's younger brother born 1873.  I have been trying for years to find out what happened to Sarah Ann.  I was also wondering whether or not she was Edward's daughter, as Catherine was previously married to a Henry Hughes (Edward also was previously married to a Margaret Small and had a son John to her born 1851).  Edward & Catherine did not marry until 1865, so presumably one or both of their first spouses were still alive until then.
Becca

My husband had 2 relatives on the Titanic:
1. Arthur (Archie) Barratt, aged 15 yrs, bellboy - he was his father's first cousin son of Margaret Black & Arthur Barratt
2. Herbert Hensford, butcher -he was my husband's great aunt's husband, her name was Alice Beck, they were only married a couple of weeks before the Titanic set sail, and when we met her in 1968 she had been a widow for 56 years.

I expect your one off offer has long since expired, but if you ever do get a chance, I'm looking for a marriage between James Wood and Mary Ramsey of Whitehaven around 1820.  There is nothing on the IGI, but I think there are some gaps in the records there.  He was a mariner.  They subsequently moved to Liverpool, but their first 2 daughters were born in Whitehaven, Jane & Elizabeth.  All her sisters seem to have been married in Whitehaven, sister Jane married Matthias Spedding and Sister Rebecca married wilson Pearons, but no sign of Mary's marriage.