Having traced my ancestors back to James Hills (b. 1788, St Nicholas Plumstead) I am trying to identify more details about his parents Richard & Winifred Hills.
They had a number of children baptised at St Nicholas and nearby the nearby East Wickham chapelry a place that serves a very small community
I can see death records for both Richard and Winifred at East Wickham (Richard 1819 with age of 74, Winnifrid 1829 with unusually no age given in register) but no marriage records anywhere that don't clearly relate to different people(e.g. there are records for a Richard and Winnifrid Hills in Lympne on the south coast of Kent around the same time but they have birth and death dates in Lympne and a distinct set of children as well)
Particularly strange is that the first child of Richard Hills, Christiana (born 15th December 1776 at East Wickham) has the mother named as Venus Hills, one page later in January 1779 Richard junior is baptised with the mother's name as Winifrid.
Venus seems to be quite an unusual christian name in England at that time and the only other record for a Venus Hill I can find is on a Dominica slavery record of 1823 as purchasing her own son's freedom and presumably not the same person at all.
I can't find a death recorded for Venus, or a marriage with Richard so I'm wondering if Venus and Winifred are the same person and having apparently exhausted b/m/d data and having no further contextual clues I'm looking for any other sources there might be to yield some hints.
Any bright ideas?
