What period and what records were you thinking of?
Imber
I am really looking for are baptisms of Eliza Barker 1809- 1880/Jonathan 1815/-1903 George 1826-1913, and any other siblings.
I need to prove the relationship between Eliza (my 2nd great grandmother) and any others.
The Barkers/Austins/Kents all intermarried during the 19th century and although I have sorted some of them out, their beginnings are still shrouded in mystery. I suspect that they are all children of a William and Susannah.
James Kent 1795-1879 originated in Steventon and had 7 children in Cookham. At least 2 emigrated to Australia. Son William 1833/4 married Sarah Ann Austin, dau of Charles and Eliza - my line. Another link is that there is a later marriage between William Kent's son and my Durbridge famly.
In the 1851 Eliza Barker says bo Marlow, Bucks but I have found no sign of her there in C of E records. In all the other censuses, she says born Cookham.
I have recently come across a newspaper report of a family assailt and squabble in 1859 between Eliza, her husband and Jonathan which has convinced me that they are closely related. But how, without the baptisms??
Further "proof" is that one of Eliza's children was also called Jonathan but he died in 1867.
Vicwinann
