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Hi Sandy Thank you!

And thank you for having a look - could she have married a Morson who died pre-1742? I was thinking about that earlier. I haven't seen the original record of the marriage (only a list on a disk) so for all I know she could be a widow. That could explain her absence. They may not have put that in

Kellie.

Sure! The marriage is from Halesowen Parish Registers disk sold by the Birmingham & Midland Society for Genealogy and Heraldry. The only William Dunn baptism I found is from FamilySearch.org Not sure where they got that from either.

I don't blame you for being wary of other people's trees/sources. Sometimes... they don't have the right information, heh.

Hi I see the trouble you had finding it online. I have the Halesowen parish registers on CD, and found:

18th September 1803
William DUNN otp bachelor
Sarah WHITAKER otp spinster
by banns
Witnesses: John Shaw and Richard Fiddian.

Both William and Sarah signed with an X.

Peter Turner was NOT baptised at hope....but MARTHA SWINDELL was....baptised 30.03.1767..one of three daughters of John and Jane Swndell...Ellen was baptised 16.10.1761..and Jane 01.11.1759....the record is confusing but John Swindell appears to have married 16.04.1759 at Hope.

Peter and Martha lived in Chapel en le Frith..and were married at Hope 26.09.1796.

Their only appearance on the Census is, as you say, in 1841..and Peter died the following year..buried just over the road in Taxal Cheshire........
Peter was baptised n Chapel en le Frith 15.05.1768..son of Peter (from Tideswell)..which does not mean he wasn't born 1766..just means he may not have been baptised till 1768......Martha's birth date of 1774 appears not to exist anywhere.......and I suggest 1767 is probably right.
Derek.

Thank you so much! It probably is right. She may have lowered her age a bit, heh.

I see what you mean by confusing, since John married a Margaret. I looked for John and Jane & found a marriage in Macclesfield Forrest for John Swindell and Jane Ford in 1755 along with a child William... but his wife Jane dies in 1758 in Rainow.

There are some baptisms of children of a John & Jane Swindell in Wormhill (Anne in 1756 and Mary in 1763). They might be from my family?

EDIT: Found John Swindell marrying Jane Hodgkinson in Tideswell, John from Wormhill. I'd say they're the right family. Thank you once again for this stepping stone to work from
EDIT 2. According to a one name Swindell study I just found (fivenine.co.uk) that has registers of Tideswell, Martha died not long after she was born. Buried in Tideswell in April 1767

Thanks for the info on Peter as well! Nice to finally break down this brick wall

I know what you mean, it's very strange! Never seen it before. I would've said maybe there was some confusion with her sister Catherine - but she was born in 1820!

I used Find My Past's Anglesey baptisms. There's a few, but one in particular is John Griffith's baptism in 1836 - it says he's the son of Richard Griffith and Elizabeth Hughes. So the Catherine thing has to be a mistake