George Wood x 4

[joboy]

Bapt All Saints            29.07.1795    George Wood, so George & Sarah
Bapt Saint Clements    14.03.1779    George Wood, so George & Ruth (must have died?)
Bapt All Saints            27.08.1780    George Wood, so George & Ruth
        [older sib Mary bapt SC 07.09.1777  younger sibs William, AS 18.07.1782, and Ruth, AS 09.03.1785]
Bapt Saint Clements    28.09.1798    George Wood, so - & Mary
        [older sib Eliza Lusted Wood, do - & Mary, Saint Clements  15.04.1796]
Bapt Saint Clements    11.03.1803   George Wood, so George & Mercy
        [younger sib Henry bapt SC 02.05.1806, and Eliza bapt SC 03.06.1808]
Marriage 4 Aug 1817 All Saints George Wood to Susannah Bevins
Bapt All Saints            05.12.1817    George Wood, so George & *Susannah* (nee Bevins)
Death All Saints *Susannah* (nee Bevins) 05.12.1817 and husband George married Frances Fairall 20.12.1819 All Saints

Problem;
Four George Wood baptised 1780;1795;1798 and 1803  .. who were the parents of the George who married Susannah Bevins?
Maybe we can discount the 1803 George .......... unless he was baptised long after his birth.
joboy

[Roy G]

Looks like the St Clement 1802 was the only one who survived long enough to be counted in the 1851 census?   Roy G

[joboy]

Looks like the St Clement 1802 was the only one who survived long enough to be counted in the 1851 census?   Roy G

Looks like you are correct Roy,
joboy

[Roy G]

George Wood deaths in St Clements, Hastings
George son of George and MARTHA buried 20 April 1779
George (no parents so adult) 30 Dec 1784

I suspect the 1779 one is the death you have as the son of George & Ruth.   Roy G

[joboy]

I suspect the 1779 one is the death you have as the son of George & Ruth.   Roy G

Again I think you could be right Roy.
By elimination through studying other trees in ancestry and GenesReunited I am leaning heavily toward the 1795 born George s/o George and Sarah as the George who married Susannah Bevins in 1817 but for the life of me I cannot find a marriage between George and Sarah ..... whatever her maiden name may have been.
Reinforcing the George and Sarah theory is that their son George born 1817 named his only daughter Susannah Sarah born Dec 1837 in Paddington just in time for free BMD.
Do you have any thoughts on this and can you help with determining Sarah's maiden name?
Joe

[Roy G]

The most local one I have found so far is a George Wood who married a Sarah Verrall in Eastbourne on 26 November 1795.  That would have been about right if your George was their first born.  Roy G

[joboy]

The most local one I have found so far is a George Wood who married a Sarah Verrall in Eastbourne on 26 November 1795.  That would have been about right if your George was their first born.  Roy G

Not beyond the bounds of probability Roy ......... thanks for your help.
Joe

[Roy G]

The difficulty with that marriage however is that it is one of those on the IGI which are unsubstantiated by a confirming batch number that refers to a specific parish register.  Neither is Sarah's baptism in the same locality, but at least there was one for a person of her name just a year later in the parish of Willingdon nearby.     Roy G