Good afternoon from Australia.
Up until lunchtime, I had a disappearing 4GGF.
I now know, or have inferred, the following
James BAXTER married Phoebe BROCK n Stradbroke 1814. He was from Wingfield. No age for James, but later records show that Phoebe's YOB was 1785
He and Phoebe produced 3 daughters 1815-1826. These daughters were not Chr as infants.
He is NOT with Phoebe in 1841 and he is NOT buried in Hoxne with her.
Today I lucked on to a mention in the papers of a James BAXTER who was convicted of breaking into the counting house of Edward KERRISON, his employer. He (and others) were given 14 years transportation. One paper mentions he was from Hoxne - which for me is the clincher. My James was living there, and he disappeared from the records around this time.
James was born 1790 according to his very scant convict data, and if he is the James who died in 1842, he was born 1786
I have found a James BAXTER or PHILPOT Chr in 1792 in Cratfield. Mother Ann BAXTER, father Samuel PHILPOT. They married 7 years later.
I am comfortable that the James who was married to Phoebe is the one transported, but all is circumstantial. I have no idea if the illegitimate child of Ann and Samuel is the same man.
Does anyone have any further insight?
SHIRLEY