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Old 27-09-21, 10:32
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Default Missing Poling marriages, Petersfield area

Thomas Poling married Elinor, some time pre 1684
Thomas Poling married Mary, sometime pre 1709
William Poling married Anne sometime pre 1747

The families were associated with Petersfield from the 1640s to gone 1800.
The name can be spelled in a huge variety of ways, from Pullen to Poulden, and in the 1980s was indexed in three different places on the IGI.
Poling is a village in Sussex, and probably the origin of the name. Petersfield is right on the border with Sussex, and on a main route to London, so brides might come from far and wide.

A Thomas POLLINGTON married a Mary Pescod in Rogate in 1706 (image 483 of 1022 if you click the image link on Family Search)

Rogate is only five miles from Petersfield and I can't find any Pollington children. Is it feasible that this is another surname variant?

This is a problem that has bugged me and other researchers for over thirty years, particularly irritating as the Polings were solid tradesmen - carpenters and blacksmiths - right in the centre of Petersfield, so I cannot imagine that they did not marry.
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Old 27-09-21, 10:41
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There are some Poling wills on the Hampshire Calm database, but I expect you already know that!
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Old 27-09-21, 10:52
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Thanks, Elizabeth. Yes, they are beautifully written, naming all their children and most of their clothing!

William and Anne appear to have fallen on hard times in old age and were removed to Portsea, but there isn't enough information in Portsmouth Record Office that I've found to satisfactorily prove this.
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Old 27-09-21, 10:55
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There are some other Pollingtons coming up in Hampshire and Sussex around that time on Findmypast - you could look through them and see whether you think it is a different family or not.
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Old 27-09-21, 18:18
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I note that somebody else - or possibly 57 other people - thnk that Thomas Poling b 1684 married as a Pollington. However, they have his father as Roger, his birth in Portsmouth and his marriage in Gosport.
As I entered my Poling details from a tree I prepared, and the original records are not available online, I've got to hunt out my old notes. I know I used the parish registers but I am quite capable of the odd mistake.
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Old 27-09-21, 19:45
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Well, Thomas Pollington of Gosport, ropemaker, had a will proved in 1740.

But now I've found Pullings with connections with Petersfield and Lacock Wilts in 1730. And a many greats aunt marrying in Crondall in Surrey PRs. in 1819.
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this tree says Thomas Poling born 1684 Married Mary Grant 19th January 1708 in Gosport ,Hampshire - this tree goes back to William Poling b circa 1610
of course we don't know if the tree is correct

https://gw.geneanet.org/jimholt1?lan...homas&n=poling

good luck

I noticed - like yourself - he hasn't got Elinor or Annes surnames or marriage dates - but does have Marys - so there must be a record somewhere ? I wonder if it was because it was in Gosport and not Petersfield ??
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Thanks, Allan! I am fairly sure they are barking up the wrong tree, as there is another candidate a merely five miles away, rather than right down on the coast, but I don't know whether Poling (Powling,Pullen, Poulden etc) is interchangeable with Pollington, so we could both be wrong..
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NB FindmyPast has an image of the Gosport marriage, but no additional clues.
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Ooh, and the Crondall marriage is definitely mine as her descendant EllenMatthews marries an Eley descendant of her sister Lucy.
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