« Reply #13 on: Wednesday 10 July 19 21:06 BST (UK) »
FindMyPast has a good "radius search" for a parish. You can search "Exact" or within a 5 miles radius and type in a year with for example 10 years either side of 1765. Type the surname. This can show up potential relatives but can still be hard with a common name, or even a lesser common name overall but was relatively common in certain areas of the country such as Smallman in Herefordsire. Still worth a try.
Sometimes I even do a personal blog and try and "float" theories on the candidates for my ancestor, and hope to find a burial as a infant/child or marriage to eliminate them. However it is going to be tough trying to work out who is who out of say 3 or 4 people of the same name in the same parish and/or surrounds.
Researching:
LONDON, Coombs, Roberts, Auber, Helsdon, Fradine, Morin, Goodacre
DORSET Coombs, Munday
NORFOLK Helsdon, Riches, Harbord, Budery
KENT Roberts, Goodacre
SUSSEX Walder, Boniface, Dinnage, Standen, Lee, Botten, Wickham, Jupp
SUFFOLK Titshall, Frost, Fairweather, Mayhew, Archer, Eade, Scarfe
DURHAM Stewart, Musgrave, Wilson, Forster
SCOTLAND Stewart in Selkirk
USA Musgrave, Saix
ESSEX Cornwell, Stock, Quilter, Lawrence, Whale, Clift
OXON Edgington, Smith, Inkpen, Snell, Batten, Brain