Thanks for that, Dutch46.
Yes, the Digby baptisms for Ann in 1756 (buried Digby 1760) and Mary in 1758, ds/o Thomas and Mary are the ones I was working on.
The awkward thing is that I am also claiming the Thos Barsley baptised in Boothby Graffoe in 1724 as 'mine'. From the dates of the Ann and Mary baptised in Leasingham to your Thos & Elizabeth, there doesn't appear to be any conclusion other than these are 2 different Thomas Barsleys, does there?
Boothby G, Digby & Leasingham are so close to each other that I'm beginning to wonder if he might have been a bigamist!!! Or, rather, because I've looked and looked for a marriage for my Thos & Mary and failed dismally, if my Mary may have been his 'mistress'! Stranger things have happened!
The Barsleys of Boothby Graffoe seem to be the obvious ancestors for my Thomas - his daughter Mary married and settled there (her husband William Blackburn was from Navenby).
Incidentally, I'd never got further than George and Hannah Barsley either. Do you have John's marriage to Elizabeth Thickpenny in Bassingham?
I think this is a real enigma! We may have to split Thomas Barsley in half!!!
It is worth adding that I've tried to look at the earlier Digby PRs on Lincs To The Past but they're all but unreadable, so there's a possibility that there may have been earlier Barsleys in Digby.
Jill