I've hit a wall with my 3xGGF William Pursell who was born 1795 in Woughton on the Green, married Hannah Matthews 25 Apr 1817 Slapton. Many of the trees that are available have his parents as John Pursell and Sarah Rebecca Gawler and this is where my problem is!
A copy of the marriage certificate of John & Sarah that is attached to the trees has them both living in the same London street although John was apparently born in Woughton, both as being unmarried, and both as being of full age. John is shown as being a mariner, unless he was on the canal barges an unlikely occupation and I would expect him to live on board when in London. Sarah was born in Surrey, the wedding was in 1846 in Surrey so I would have thought they would have been born about 1824 but as William was first born in 1795 I would have expected his parents to have been born circa 1774. John died in 1849 apparently in Woughton so unless John & Sarah lived together for most of their lives and decided to marry when in their 70's and then move to Woughton these are not William's parents.
Does anyone have a definitive answer to this? All I can find is that William's parents were apparently a John Pursell b1772 in Fenny Stratford who married Sarah but nothing else. So in my view it's extremely unlikely that these are the same John & Sarah.
MTIA
Phil