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17-12-23, 20:00
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William Tunks and Letitia Thompson
The above couple married in Brede, Sussex Monday 24 March 1800:
https://www.ancestry.co.uk/imageview...031?pId=204086 This was the day after the banns were read for the third time. Neither signed. She was a spinster, he was said to be a widower. Both were of this parish. The witnesses are not recognisable family members. This is odd, because on January 14 1798,in Linton, Kent, James and John, the children of William and Letitia Tunks were baptised: https://search.findmypast.co.uk/reco...229_1_a_4%2f19 On 24 May 1794, also in Linton, Eliz daughter of William and Lachester Tolks is baptised: https://search.findmypast.co.uk/reco...229_1_a_4%2f18 On May 19 1805 in Loose, Kent David and Susanna Tunks, children of David and Letitia Tunks are baptised. They were both born the preceding April: https://search.findmypast.co.uk/reco...FBAP%2F0309467 April 26 1807, David, son of William and Letitia Tunks aged 2 is buried in Loose: https://search.findmypast.co.uk/reco...233_1_a_3%2f12 and 23 December 1810, William Tunks aged 73 is buried: https://search.findmypast.co.uk/reco...233_1_a_3%2f14 14 June 1819, Elizabeth Tunks marries Samuel Brook in Linton Kent. Both otp: https://search.findmypast.co.uk/reco...%2F0069020%2F2 Elizabeth cannot write, but the witnesses Samuel Tunks and ?Mare Maria? Tunks can. Samuel Tunks appears to have been born 1788 from a burial entry 1821 in All Saints, Maidstone. Given the errors in the above, following a suggestion of Merry's, many years ago, I think William and Letitia had children: Elizabeth 1794 James and John 1798 David and Rosannah 1805 Rosannah Tunks certainly had a sister Elizabeth b 1794, Linton. They both appear on censuses in Barming, Kent. In 1841, Rosannah, as Hannah Mason is in Stepney, staying with Henry Brook, while Elizabeth, now Bellingham is looking after Rosannah's daughter Harriott in Barming: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/imageview...12?pId=2834786 Can anyone spot Letitia after 1805, or find Samuel Tunks' marriage or his birth, or his widow after her marriage to William Strood: https://search.findmypast.co.uk/reco...%2F0184495%2F1
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17-12-23, 21:47
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FMP has a transcription of the baptism of Sam'l Sunks 22 Jan 1792 in Sussex, son of Wm and Letitia. It doesn't say which parish as far as I can see. It is in a dataset called Sussex Baptisms.
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17-12-23, 22:02
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Ah, here it is on Ancestry, transcribed as Sanks:
https://www.ancestry.co.uk/imageview...ce&pId=1360592 Parish is Mountfield. The name is pretty clearly Tunks. William is a traveller.
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17-12-23, 23:20
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A traveller indeed! Thank you, Kite! That confirms Elizabeth as being a Tunks. Looks like I have to wander through the Junks, Lunks, Funks.
At that period, I wonder whether they meant commercial traveller or gypsy? Also wonder whether William was waiting for a first wife to die, or simply called himself a widower to account for the four (at least!) children at the wedding.
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18-12-23, 09:06
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It meant commercial traveller back then. I have seen others at that time described as tinkers, gypsies, romanies. Traveller used to describe those groups with a nomadic lifestyle is a new one which I don't think I heard until the 1980s. OC
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18-12-23, 09:18
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I think it could be either kind of traveller.
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18-12-23, 10:09
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The Annals of Southport says about my 6x-g-grandparents, who died in 1786 and 1802:
They were "travellers", as is proved by the fact that at the funerals "double dues" were paid. They were dealers in rabbit skins. On their gravestone is inscribed "I lodged have in many a town, And travelled many a year ; But age and death have brought me down To my last lodging here."
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18-12-23, 10:51
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Kate, I've only seen sojourners, gypsies etc, never travellers, but of course there's always an exception. Selling rabbit skins could be either.
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18-12-23, 15:10
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