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Thomas Clatworthy was baptised 1685 in Nether Stowey.  Parents Matthew and Mary.  Cannot trace this marriage or any siblings in Nether Stowey or locally. It is possible that Matthew was the Matthew born in Porlock 1663 but I cannot find anything relevant between then and 1685.
Any suggestions?

Thank you for the information about Elizabeth; I am not sure that she ever married. I will look up the will reference. Certainly Elizabeth kept Samuel so I will try to find out if a bastardy order was made and if so whether it does link him to the Tanners. Clearly she was still around in Trowbridge till at least 1817.
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Thanks; already have this. He was in and out of the workhouse till his death in Pancras workhouse in 1864 from bronchitis. The Nov 1861 entry is the only one that mentions his lady friend/common law wife and as mentioned before, he was not at Clayton Street at the time of the 1861 census.

Thank you all for your helpful leads. I have for many years tried to find the baptism of Samuel Tanner Franklin in 1808. He only seems to be on the 1841 census with his wife and children. He was a market trader at Borough Market selling fish and vegetables at different times. The 1841 census suggests he was born in London (Y rather than N) but I am not sure that this is correct. One of his children died in tragic circumstances in 1847 and an Elizabeth Franklin of Coles Buildings, nr St Sepulchre, believed to be the child's grandmother gave evidence at the inquest.
Samuel left his wife but continued to maintain her even though he was living with another woman; not clear whether child William referred to at the workhouse was anything to do with him or whether he was a child of the lady's marriage; the writing is not clear enough to decipher the surname.
It is purely circumstantial but I am looking at the theory that Samuel, born illegitimately to Elizabeth in 1808, came up to London from Trowbridge and that he knew the lady he later moved in with from years before. The Tanner name could refer to the putative father but obviously I am clutching at straws with this. I could go back to the London Metro Archives and get someone to check the workhouse entry and I will follow up on some of the suggestions made. Just wanted to give some of the background to my request.

Can anyone help with marriage details for a Mary or Margaret marrying at this church in this year? In 1861 she was living with a Samuel Franklin in Islington and they both moved into the workhouse in November 1861. They were not married but she used the name Franklin. There was a child William aged 12 in 1861. They are not on the 1861 census. The information comes from the workhouse admission details but unfortunately the writing is indistinct so I have no married name for her but could be LANE or DANE. If there is a transcript available for these marriages, I would go through it to look for a match.