P......... in Dorset

[LizzieL]

1 May 1787 William Wills and Sarah Trim at Puddletown

Added
botp also says residents. both signed x
Wits: William Carter and John Tuffin

Some records on same page have one party as otp resident and other party just as otp. Must be some point to making the distinction Banns record also says residents

Maybe they were just in residence for the legal three weeks.

[toby webb]

Thanks for all this help. I need to do a bit more research. Meanwhile the attached, all written by the same enumerator, should remove some possibilities. T

[Flattybasher9]

Susanna;   HICKLAND;   Wife;   Married;   41;   ;   Palenton;   RG9-1339 F14p22

Malky

[LizzieL]

i think the Pallington farm or settlement near Affpuddle that Galium posted is you best bet. And the William Wills to Sarah Trim marriage most likely so far.
If the marriage was 1787, there could be more children apart from Mary and James

[Flattybasher9]

http://epns.nottingham.ac.uk/browse/id/53287436b47fc40c5f0007bc

Malky

[toby webb]

Not sure of the significance of Susannah Hickland, Flattybasher as I cannot find it. What place were they living in? T

[LizzieL]

Not sure of the significance of Susannah Hickland, Flattybasher as I cannot find it. What place were they living in? T

neither can I re Susannah Hickland

Flattybasher's link leads to a village in Warwickshire. can't see the relevance, but may'be I am just thick

[toby webb]

Here is another slant. At Buckland Newton was baptised on 19 October 1794 James base son of Elizabeth Wills.
Elizabeth might have gone there to avoid talk back in her village and James later might have invented a birth place so that no-one could check on him. That all sounds very plausible but I accept that your proposal of James s/o William & Sarah(Trim) baptised in Affpuddle on 1 Feb. 1796 has considerable merit even if the name is spelt Willis. 
Whatever, I really must thank you all for the great effort. The brick wall may yet be demolished. T

[Galium]

James Wills born at Buckland Newton is probably a different person.  You'll see him recorded at Mintern Magna in the 1861 census, and buried there in 1874.