My people are Ashurst and Cowfold. And West Grinstead is pretty close to both places, with Shipley just west of it. But when you are local to were you were born, you probably get the parish correct.
But the Joseph born Ashurst is very unlikely to have had the same parents as the Edward born Cowfold UNLESS his father remarried. My gut feeling is that this would be the child of Thomas Pierce and Mary Churcher, m 1794 and moved from Cowfold to Ashurst in 1795.
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