Help finding a birth
 

Joanna/Johanna Toten married William Cope by licence in 1758.

Joanna Marriage

She was a minor, which to me means she was born after 1737.

Her father is Joshua Toten and he died and left a will in 1766.
Joshua Toten Will

The will states Joanna had a brother Joshua and she was a widow.

I can't find her birth and not knowing who the mother is makes it hard too. Toten is mistranscribed by ancestry in so many different ways, some start with S making the search difficult.

Could someone have a look and see what they find? I'm hoping for beginners luck. lol

Any reason why this isn't her parents' marriage: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/discovery...=successSource

William's will. He died 1765-1766.

Will

He states there was a marriage settlement and Joanna only received 10 guineas in the will. His children inherited the bulk of the estate, assuming they reached adulthood.

No reason at all.

Given that surname is mentioned it is likely.

I have seen births to Joshua and Hannah but no Joanna

I wonder whether this is a mistranscription (from 1743!) for Joseph?

https://www.ancestry.co.uk/imageview...7a&pId=6073125

Okay, let's try agaain

Joshua: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/imageview...7a&pId=1666024


Down as Foten

I don't know. It is definitely son of.

That's good. Definitely Joshua.

Foten is a new variation.

Okay, all the references I can find to the family are in St Luke's Finsbury. But these only start in 1740. Joshua is described as a plaisterer, so definitely the right people.

If Joanna is the eldest - and I'd say she has to be - she is probably the eldest. So she may be born wherever her mother came from.

Also, there are a lot of impossible to read entries at St Luke's, Fnsbury - the bottom three or four entries on every page I've looked at are blackened out most of the way across the page.

I did see one with just the first name transcribed - Joanna - but that was in Nov 1741 so probably unlikely. Goodness knows how the name was read from the image!