Phoenix
17-12-23, 20:00
The above couple married in Brede, Sussex Monday 24 March 1800:
https://www.ancestry.co.uk/imageviewer/collections/62126/images/par_253-1-1-3_031?pId=204086
This was the day after the banns were read for the third time. Neither signed. She was a spinster, he was said to be a widower. Both were of this parish. The witnesses are not recognisable family members.
This is odd, because on January 14 1798,in Linton, Kent, James and John, the children of William and Letitia Tunks were baptised:
https://search.findmypast.co.uk/record/browse?id=gbprs%2fkent%2fp229_1_a_4%2f19
On 24 May 1794, also in Linton, Eliz daughter of William and Lachester Tolks is baptised:
https://search.findmypast.co.uk/record/browse?id=gbprs%2fkent%2fp229_1_a_4%2f18
On May 19 1805 in Loose, Kent David and Susanna Tunks, children of David and Letitia Tunks are baptised. They were both born the preceding April:
https://search.findmypast.co.uk/record?id=GBPRS%2FKENT%2FP233_1_A_3%2F23&parentid=PRS%2FKENT%2FBAP%2F0309467
April 26 1807, David, son of William and Letitia Tunks aged 2 is buried in Loose:
https://search.findmypast.co.uk/record/browse?id=gbprs%2fkent%2fp233_1_a_3%2f12
and 23 December 1810, William Tunks aged 73 is buried:
https://search.findmypast.co.uk/record/browse?id=gbprs%2fkent%2fp233_1_a_3%2f14
14 June 1819, Elizabeth Tunks marries Samuel Brook in Linton Kent. Both otp:
https://search.findmypast.co.uk/record?id=GBPRS%2FKENT%2FP229_1_D_1%2F8&parentid=PRS%2FKENT%2FMAR%2F0069020%2F2
Elizabeth cannot write, but the witnesses Samuel Tunks and ?Mare Maria? Tunks can.
Samuel Tunks appears to have been born 1788 from a burial entry 1821 in All Saints, Maidstone.
Given the errors in the above, following a suggestion of Merry's, many years ago, I think
William and Letitia had children:
Elizabeth 1794
James and John 1798
David and Rosannah 1805
Rosannah Tunks certainly had a sister Elizabeth b 1794, Linton. They both appear on censuses in Barming, Kent. In 1841, Rosannah, as Hannah Mason is in Stepney, staying with Henry Brook, while Elizabeth, now Bellingham is looking after Rosannah's daughter Harriott in Barming:
https://www.ancestry.co.uk/imageviewer/collections/8978/images/KENHO107_454_456-0412?pId=2834786
Can anyone spot Letitia after 1805, or find Samuel Tunks' marriage or his birth, or his widow after her marriage to William Strood:
https://search.findmypast.co.uk/record?id=GBPRS%2FKENT%2FP369_1_D_1%2F25&parentid=PRS%2FKENT%2FMAR%2F0184495%2F1
https://www.ancestry.co.uk/imageviewer/collections/62126/images/par_253-1-1-3_031?pId=204086
This was the day after the banns were read for the third time. Neither signed. She was a spinster, he was said to be a widower. Both were of this parish. The witnesses are not recognisable family members.
This is odd, because on January 14 1798,in Linton, Kent, James and John, the children of William and Letitia Tunks were baptised:
https://search.findmypast.co.uk/record/browse?id=gbprs%2fkent%2fp229_1_a_4%2f19
On 24 May 1794, also in Linton, Eliz daughter of William and Lachester Tolks is baptised:
https://search.findmypast.co.uk/record/browse?id=gbprs%2fkent%2fp229_1_a_4%2f18
On May 19 1805 in Loose, Kent David and Susanna Tunks, children of David and Letitia Tunks are baptised. They were both born the preceding April:
https://search.findmypast.co.uk/record?id=GBPRS%2FKENT%2FP233_1_A_3%2F23&parentid=PRS%2FKENT%2FBAP%2F0309467
April 26 1807, David, son of William and Letitia Tunks aged 2 is buried in Loose:
https://search.findmypast.co.uk/record/browse?id=gbprs%2fkent%2fp233_1_a_3%2f12
and 23 December 1810, William Tunks aged 73 is buried:
https://search.findmypast.co.uk/record/browse?id=gbprs%2fkent%2fp233_1_a_3%2f14
14 June 1819, Elizabeth Tunks marries Samuel Brook in Linton Kent. Both otp:
https://search.findmypast.co.uk/record?id=GBPRS%2FKENT%2FP229_1_D_1%2F8&parentid=PRS%2FKENT%2FMAR%2F0069020%2F2
Elizabeth cannot write, but the witnesses Samuel Tunks and ?Mare Maria? Tunks can.
Samuel Tunks appears to have been born 1788 from a burial entry 1821 in All Saints, Maidstone.
Given the errors in the above, following a suggestion of Merry's, many years ago, I think
William and Letitia had children:
Elizabeth 1794
James and John 1798
David and Rosannah 1805
Rosannah Tunks certainly had a sister Elizabeth b 1794, Linton. They both appear on censuses in Barming, Kent. In 1841, Rosannah, as Hannah Mason is in Stepney, staying with Henry Brook, while Elizabeth, now Bellingham is looking after Rosannah's daughter Harriott in Barming:
https://www.ancestry.co.uk/imageviewer/collections/8978/images/KENHO107_454_456-0412?pId=2834786
Can anyone spot Letitia after 1805, or find Samuel Tunks' marriage or his birth, or his widow after her marriage to William Strood:
https://search.findmypast.co.uk/record?id=GBPRS%2FKENT%2FP369_1_D_1%2F25&parentid=PRS%2FKENT%2FMAR%2F0184495%2F1