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Hi Omega & OneBigFamily,
I am absolutely gobsmacked at the mass of information you have provided me on the Kensett family, and their marriages, since my initial 'sketchy' posting exactly one week ago today!!  I am also full of admiration for the time you have taken to be precise in all aspects of detail in your postings and it seems all that is left for me is to simply stitch the information together to reach as far back as 1769 and possibly '62!!
Tremendous sleuthing and very many thanks for giving-up your valuable time on my behalf.
PS.... I thought I had posted a similar appreciation earlier tonight but I am at a loss to know where it went!  Anyway, if you eventually receive it, all to the good.
Thank you and I will, in time, post my effort on my interpretation of your information for
comment, if I may.

Thanks Omega & One Big Family for all your time and information which I will now try to wend my way through.  You will have gathered by now that I am relatively new to much of this!
One query I have at the moment: what is the abbreviation BOTP?  I am familiar with SP & Bach but not the other.
Your tremendous input is very much appreciated.  Thanks again.

Thanks One Big Family for your massive effort and time expended on my behalf!  I obviously have a lot to learn on tracing family history but will start by trying to obtain the birth certificate for Agnes Bertha to learn of her mother and take things from there.
Your advice and assistance and that of CaroleW is very much appreciated.
Thanks again to both of you.

Hi Carole & O.B.F.,
Some further info.
I have a headstone inscription in Gatehouse of Fleet, Scotland, giving the death of Jane Kensitt (sic) as 23 March, 1928, aged 86 and Charles McClure Dalrymple as 21 Feb., 1919, aged 78.  The year of birth for both of them, therefore, being c 1841.
As far as I am aware, Jane was born in Sussex and Charles in Gatehouse, Scotland.

Carol:  In your posting on the 1841 census, is it possible that another Philip, a son of Philip snr. and husband of Jane (30), may just have been absent at the time of the census and that Jane (wife of Chas.D.?) was born later in 1841 and therefore may appear in the 1851 census?

O.B.F.:  In your Scotland 1901 census posting, this is definitely Charles, Jane and daughter, Agnes, whom I didn't know was born in England!   Agnes died 1963, aged 82, and had the middle name of Bertha per a headstone inscription.

Carol:  In your 1871 census posting, there is a Bertha and this may have been a niece with Agnes having been given her name as a second name?

O.B.F.:  You have undoubtedly hit on a sister of Agnes in Jennet Kensett Dalrymple as Chas. was a forester at one time! She was totally unknown to me.

It is odd that there appears to be no entry for a marriage of Charles and Jane but hopefully this may turn-up. One thing that has came to light, however, is the fact that this is pre the birth of Jennet in March, 1878!

All-in-all, I am delighted with the progress you have both made for me and I feel I am now "getting there". No doubt you will have realised that I am not at all familiar with the procedures on finding my way around the various sites which could assist with my researches! However, the tips on sites you have mentioned will assist me in this.
I do hope that the above makes some sense to you and many thanks again for your time, patience and interest.
Kind regards.