Roger ... thanks.
I've followed this line back to the beginning of the Parish Registers this afternoon (8 generations ... aren't digitized Parish Registers wonderful???).
I THINK I've got it right.
They seem to be the Dullingham crowd ... but if you're offering to cast an eye over what I've got and let me know where I've gone wrong, I'll be more than happy to submit to your scrutiny.
I THINK it all goes back to John Cornell, who was married to Agnes.
Agnes was buried in Dullingham on 27 May 1577, but not before she'd had a son Henry, who wasn't baptized until 1 December 1577 (I suspect, therefore, that she died in childbirth ...)
John Cornell then married Joane Norman, in Bottisham on 22 June 1579, and they had a further 6 children, all baptized in Dullingham:
Prudence (baptized 15 February 1579/80 ... so they obviously hadn't been THAT prudent ...)
John (baptized 18 November 1582)
Constance & Alice (baptized 16 June 1585)
Agnes (baptized 1 July 1588)
William (baptized 1 August 1591)
Joan Cornell was buried in Bottisham on 20 February 1602/3 (Norman family vault?)
John Cornell was buried in Dullingham on 23 November 1616
William Cornell married Ellen Rannew in Dullingham on 24 November 1616. They had 4 children:
William (baptized 15 June 1617, but died)
Elizabeth (baptized 24 May 1619)
Margaret (baptized 4 July 1622)
William (baptized 30 January 1624/5)
Ellen then died, and William Cornell, widr married Elizabeth Jarvis in Wood Ditton on 1 November 1627. They had 6 children:
Augustine (baptisex 20 April 1628)
Isaac (baptized 10 January 1629/30)
Alice (baptized 11 December 1631)
Audrey (baptized 3 February 1632/3)
Job (baptized 1 January 1634/5)
John (baptized 29 January 1636/7
Job Cornall married Barbara Hills in Gazeley, Suffolk in 1665. They had 5 children:
William (baptized 11 February 1665/6)
Henry (baptized 25 July 1669)
Alice & Marie (baptized 2 January 1672/3)
Margaret (baptized 1 November 1674)
William Cornwell married Susan Husk in Burrough Green on 8 November 1688
They had 4 or 5 children:
Margaret (baptized 19 December 1692, does not say who the father was, and might have been Henry's rather than theirs)
Mary (baptized 1 September 1695)
William (baptized 5 June 1698, does not say who the father was, but as Henry's daughter Sarah was baptized 10 months previously, I think probably William's; and Thomas, baptized on 19 November 1699 may be either's but I think probably Henry's)
Barbara (baptized 4 May 1701)
Abraham (baptized 26 June 1704)
William Cornel married Mary Wake in Dullingham on 19 July 1720. They had 4 children:
William, baptized 19 January 1720/1
Mary, baptized 21 July 1723
Joshua, baptized 11 December 1725
Elizabeth, baptized 29 September 1728
William Cornell married Ann Aves in Dullingham on 16 September 1741. They had 5 children:
William, baptized 29 August 1742
Ann, baptized 2 August 1744
Sarah, baptized 3 December 1749
James, baptized 8 March 1746/7
Edmund, baptized 6 November 1752
The action now moves from Dullingham to Cheveley.
William Cornell married Mary Cullifer (or Culliver, or Culifer ... sc. Cauliflower
) in Cheveley on 16 February 1767. They lived in Cheveley and had 4 children:
William, baptized privately 28 June 1767 and received into church 22 November
James, baptized 11 August 1768
John, baptized 16 June 1771. Private baptism. The register says "William and Elisabeth", but I think this is clerical error and it should say "William and Mary". There was no William and Mary Cornell in Cheveley.
Benjamin, baptized 30 May 1773. Private baptism.
John Cornell married Lucy Tailor in Cheveley on 22 January 1798. So far I have only got two children for them - Sarah, baptized in Exning on 11 November 1804 (who married Ambrose Frost, from whom I have a documented line of descent down to myself) and George (discussed at length above). I'm sure there were probably others.
I've not yet traced all the burials ... but that, to me, is looking like a pretty coherent story.
Does it look right to you, or do you have an industrial size spanner waiting to be pitched into my works??