Parents of Elizabeth and Charles Bray

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Originally Posted by Merry

There is a Thomas Bray bap in 1766 but his parents are Jonathan and Elizabeth.

OK - I see that now. I also now see the marriage of a TB to Elizabeth Collier - at Holy Trinity not at Stoke.

It is a only a small leap of faith (and one consistent with the principle of Occam's razor) to identify this TB with the one baptised on 10 Nov 1730, and that would make the TB Senior on the 1821 Lease and Release a first cousin of JB the silkmercer.

I appreciate your sympathetic comments about the lack of clarity being a motivating force.

I have also located a family tree on https://www.familysearch.org/tree/pe...scape/MJSD-XYC which deals with the marriage of TB to Mary Vice. I plan to see if I can add to it, based on the research covered in this thread.