Inhabitants of Cardington 1782

[Jeremy Pyne]

Thanks for that John - quite a tangle - difficult to distinguish Sam the elder and Sam the Younger.

Sam the elder clearely married Ann Fleming and had children with her between 1740 and 58.  Ann then died 1759.

I'd assumed a marriage date of 1754 was right for Sam and Liz King - as there are christenings of children of Sam and Liz  from 1760 onwards. If the marriage was 1764, were the earlier children illegitimate maybe .....

[johnP-bedford]

When Samuel Hillyard (1718) & Ann (Fleming) baptised their first son Samuel on 2 Nov 1740 he was referred to as junior, thus we can deduce that there was a Samuel senior (his father) living at the time. Sure enough a Samuel Hillyard senior was buried at Cardington on 31 Oct 1742. While Samuel & Ann continued baptising 10 further children between 1742 - 1759 (as well as 4 burials) and Ann wife of Samuel was buried on 16 Oct 1759 (thus Samuel must have been still alive at that point), it is laughable that there are so many trees on Ancestry that have SH born 1718 dying in 1742. In fact I've not found a death/burial for this Samuel nor for his son born 1740.