Hello, I’ve just come across your original message and thread and would be interested to exchange information.
Having researched the Lee family for 20+ years trying to establish my own Lee line I have come across various others, the above mentioned Thomas and Amos Lee being two of them.
Amos Lee son of Thomas Lee and Rose Kemp / Scamp baptised at Chartham, Kent 13 Sept 1801 was the father of Thomas Lee baptised in Playden Sussex 15 July 1821.
Amos’ ‘wife’ and Thomas’ mother it is assumed was Mary Gardiner born c1799.
This would explain why Thomas baptised in 1821 used the surname Gardiner when marrying Mary Riley in 1841 and Lee later in life, similar Thomas’ sibling, Flora, who used the surname Gardiner and Lee.
Thomas married Mary Riley who later used the surname Whale when registering her children is an example of using the surnames of both mother (Riley) and father (Whale) who may or may not have been legally married.
Thomas and Mary’s son Henry William / William Henry’s baptism was recorded at Prittlewell, Essex as was their daughter Emily whose birth was registered also, after which the pair seem to have separated and ‘married’ other people.
Thomas began having children with Eunice Lee daughter of Henry Lee and Ruth Powell, baptised at Sandhurst, Kent in 1828 finally officially marrying in 1879 at Beckenham, Kent, Thomas citing he was a widower, suggesting by 1879 his wife Mary was dead.
Mary ‘married’ Henry / David Lee son of Joshua and Johanna Lee who was baptised at Buckland, Kent in 1821.
Both Thomas and Mary had various other children each with their new spouses and can with some ease be traced in census records and through the baptism / registering of the births of their children.
Amos baptised in 1801 mentioned above died DQ 1869 at Croydon where he is also buried.
His wife Mary ‘Gardiner’ is perhaps the Mary Ann Lee buried at Northfleet, Kent 19 Aug 1842 aged 43 the death registered in North Aylesford SQ 1842.
The Amos Lee seen on the census with Noah and baptising children with Aves / Avis is not the same person as above. This Amos was baptised in 1819 at Winchelsea, Sussex the son of Christopher and Lucy Lee.
It is currently and may remain so, not known the relationship between Amos baptised in 1801 to the Christopher and Lucy Lee who baptised their son Amos in 1819 however it has been suggested by other researchers that Lucy, Christopher’s wife was the daughter of Thomas Lee and Rose Kemp / Scamp or another relation related to this couple in some way.
Christopher mentioned above was buried at Northfleet, Kent 19 July 1842 baptised in 1801 at Newenden, Kent the son of another Christopher and Lucy Lee.
