I confused the names Durrant and Dutnell.
So did I!
Before we let the thread go, one extra thing.
We know that some of the main places we are interested in - Chailey, Isfield, Newick - have not been filmed by the LDS. Although we seem to be OK with marriages and burials (transcription wise), we don't have baptisms.
I really do hope there are some, but I have thought all along that maybe the Siffleets were nonconformists (at least for a time).
Someone on rootschat was looking for the will of James Broomfield a few years ago. They got some burial info from one of our contributors
A 75 year old James Broomffield who was an anabaptist teacher from Chailey, was buried at All Saints, Waldron, Sussex, 7 March 1774. (info SFHG Members burial list website)
So that set me off looking into Baptists in Sussex. The main centre of activity seemed to be Ditchling. And some records have been put online
https://www.unitarian.org.uk/resources/document-library/records-general-baptist-meeting-house-now-unitarian-ditchling-sussexThere is a pdf document there. Consisting of three volumes. It's the first one that is useful for Siffleets.
There is a general index to the first volume, starting on page 162 (which is page 88 of the pdf, about halfway down) and on page 161 are abbreviations used in the index.
Siffleets are indexed on page 171 of volume one.
It is a bit fuzzy, but never mind. Most of the numbers in the index refer to the pages immediately above, List of Baptisms and of others admitted to Church Membership/into Church Communion (which are given numbers 1-494, and starting on page 150). These will be adults.
m = married to (who, but not when they married)
p = page number in the volume
i.e. James Siffleet p7
and if we go back to page 7 of volume 1 we see mention of James Sifleet being admonished.
We see familiar names here, Soper/Soaper, Broomfield
It also helps with the mystery of Detemia Gansey - a search on FamilySearch for the name Detemia, "any place" Sussex brings up what may be her burial. Even better is looking for Ditemia, which it says in the original, because FamilySearch have indexed the surname three times in different ways.
A mystery burial? At Westmeston, 20 Oct 1765
Thomas Ciphlet senex (old man) Anabaptist
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:S3HY-69HW-9RK?i=54&cat=245147Good luck
John