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Originally Posted by Cass Ainslie
Thank you, I do have the Crookendens back to John Pelham's Great grandfather b in 1703.
I am particularly interested in my direct 'motherline' , Sarah Maynard is my 4 x great grandmother.
I think Merry and Kiterunner have been very helpful in re-directing me to the village of Wittersham in Kent which have parish records, so I may have pushed back this line to Sarah Maynard's Great Grandmother - if I can discover her maiden name!
Is it usual for only a mother to be named on a baptism record?
If Sarah's mother was Ann Masters who married Edward Maynard in Wittersham, in June 1789, it was only 4 months before she gave birth to Sarah!!
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If a baptism record only names the mother, it usually means the child was illegitimate.
As for a baby being born 4 months after the parents' marriage, that wasn't very unusual.