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some of the assumptions I made were wrong
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That reminds me of my Tyler tree in Oxfordshire.
I was looking at marriage entries and came across Mary Bloggs marrying John Tyler, both full age, just after a census year. I looked at the census a few moths before the marriage and found Miss Mary Bloggs living nextdoor to my John Tyler, both single and in theiir early 20's, both had the right father's names and occs. So I paired them up and that was that. Some years passed and the next census was released and I looked for my John, expecting him to be with his wife and probably a few children by then. But surprise, surprise, he was still at home with his aging parents and still single! It turned out Mary had married John Tyler's second cousin from Gloucestershire and had moved to Cheltenham about 40 miles away!