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I'm in need of some extra opinions please as I'm going round in circles with this - and have been for a few years actually, I keep coming back to it and weighing the possibility up as I want to be absolutely certain.  The first signature is from a marriage record (at roughly the right time, but in the 'wrong' place by 40 miles, though currently looks like the most likely marriage for the couple so far).

The other three signatures are from poor law records that I know he signed as an Overseer at various points.

Is the marriage signature is a good enough match for this one to conclude it was the same individual?  I think it is a really close match except for the loop of the W and the shape of the t's which bothers me.

Would welcome opinions!  Thank you

Thank you for that, really appreciate it!

I've recently found a likely marriage for my 5x great-grandparents in Chelmsford on 4th July 1799 (Sarah Baldwin and Edward Parfery).  It's thrown me a bit as both were from near Bury St Edmunds, I've been hunting for this marriage for some time but hadn't expanded my search into Essex before.  Not sure what they were doing that far south, but we already know from parish registers that Sarah's maiden name was Baldwin so it does appear to be them, and fits in with the timeline of their first child being born in 1800.

I'd love to know the details from the marriage of who witnessed it from the marriage certificate, and the residences given in the banns book if at all possible as I don't have an Essex subscription as it's not one of the counties I research in normally!

Thanks in advance for any help

I always include all of them, they were absolutely part of the family.  It surprises me that some people wouldn't.

Now the £2.50 certificates have been introduced I've bought quite a few death certificates for some siblings of ancestors who died young, it's given me an insight into the families.  I recently found two brothers who died of smallpox just hours apart, I found two children on separate lines who died due to burns (neither made the newspaper) and one young man who was suffocated by a hay bale while farming in a field (also didn't make the papers).  Also lots of sad cases of T.B. and some indicating malnutrition.  It's sad, but I personally think it's important to remember all of the children in a family and to understand what the family went through.