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Nice find OBF

I think the 2 Daniel`s are one of the same as Ore is a part of Hastings.

Kind Regards

omega

Thanks Omega - I can be quite useful when I'm not spending my time sorting out the problems caused by the builders.   
I imagined that he probably just wrote Hastings on his form rather than specifically writing the name of his birthplace within its district.

This information excludes the Daniel Whiting born abt 1883 from Ore, Sussex ....

New York Passenger Lists, 1820-1957
An English man, Daniel Whiting, aged 25, a butcher by occupation, who was born abt 1883 in Hastings, Sussex, England arrived at New York, New York, USA on 11 Oct 1908 having departed from Southampton, England and having travelled on board the ship "St Louis".  He was travelling with his 22 year old wife, named Rose Whiting and the address of their nearest friend or relative was given as 14 Calvert Rd, Hastings.
 
Rose May's marriage registration was also 1907 last quarter, Hastings, Sussex, 2b 25

Hi Tracey,

You are very welcome.

Incidentally, no, the * key doesn't work on FamilySearch/IGI (unfortunately).  Perhaps on their next release....

The truth may turn up one day about Thomas's parentage...   From the amount of stuff available about the fairly rare name of Tollis (also TollisS), on ancestry/IGI, it appears they had links to the county of Kent, to the Bethnal Green area, and also to Warwickshire where your Thomas ended up.  I think it could be worth being mindful of that coincidence in your researches.

OneBigFamily

Hi Tracey

Very well done you! 

The new version of FamilySearch is a powerful search tool:
https://www.familysearch.org/#form=advanced-records

For example I just visited the above site.
I then made the selection of "Parents" from the drop down field entitled Relationship, then I typed the first names only of the parents into the parents forenames fields, ie Joshua and Sarah, then I added the values 1793 to 1826 in the date range fields, and typed 'Hastings, Sussex' into the 'Place' field (or maybe I put Hastings, Sussex England), and the results unfortunately only showed the baptisms in St Clements Hastings of two of Joshua and Sarah's children; Elizabeth Slann and Joshua Slann.  (Note I did not need to enter ANY surnames).

I have often used this method when dealing with surnames that are easily mistranscribed, however, no result came up for a baptism for your Thomas. 

It could be that the baptism record exists but is not legible enough to be transcribed, or it could be that Thomas was baptised to them (or to another couple) but elsewhere, and his surname is mistranscribed, waiting still to be discovered, or perhaps it was the case the record of his baptism, wherever it happened got lost through time.

Of Sussex records on the IGI, I've only heard of Cuckfield IGI records being discriminative over the genders, where up until this new version, we could only find female baptisms for Cuckfield.

So you can test the link at your leisure, trying the possible variations of mis-transcriptions of Slann, like you said, Hann, and then Stann, Kann, SLAN, etc etc, and broadening or changing the areas.

Let us know if you still have no luck (keeping my fingers crossed for you).  Bear in mind, if Thomas's father, like himself was in the Dragoons, that he may also have moved around a bit ....

OneBigFamily