M.P.G

Many thanks for your interest and support.

Not sure I understand the full meaning of your findings yet.

The registration of Samuel Preest Preest in 1841 with a mother previously James and Baylis does seem to suggest a recent widowhood. But why call her son PREEST?

There is an 1859 Parkend marriage of a Samuel JAMES and his father is given as Samuel PREEST.

The jumble of surrounding date includes a marriage of Hannnah Baylis to Richard James in 1837, the burial of a Richard James aged 35 in 1841, a Hannah James aged 20 with a 2year old son Richard in the 1841 census (What if Samuel was born to Hannah after the 1841 census) and a the marriage of a Hannah James to a Roberts in 1850.
I can certainly carry Samuel back into this clutter but can't convincingly attach him to a father.
Am I confusing myself and misssing something?

Norman