Thomas RUDGE married Susan MACKLIN (General)

by Steve R , Coventry, UK, Thursday, September 01, 2011, 21:13 (4834 days ago) @ unknown

This gets puzzling!
I've traced my ancestry back to William Rudge who married Mary Merrick in Marstow, a little village in south Herefordshire, on 26th October 1819. The Marstow Parish Register in Hereford CRO, says he is "of Goodrich" and goes on to record the children's baptisms: George in November 1819 (a short pregnancy!); William in 1824; Edward (my Gr Gr G/F)in 1827; Helen in 1829, Eliza in 1832; John in 1834.
1841 Census shows William to be a Blacksmith in Whitchurch, the next parish to Marstow, although 14 year old Edward is still in Marstow. Edward goes on to operate as a Blacksmith in Marstow and one of his sons, Albert, my Gr G/F followed in that trade and remained as the Marstow blacksmith until the Great War.
But the Marstow Parish Register also records the marriage on December 17, 1842 of Thomas Rudge, a sawyer, son of James Rudge to Susan Macklin, daughter of Thomas Macklin also a sawyer.
So I've wondered who were Thomas and James? They make no other appearance in Marstow Parish Records and weren't in Marstow in the 1841 Census.
In fact, there's no trace of William's baptism in Goodrich, but there was a William Rudge born in English Bicknor (just across the River Wye from Goodrich) in 1792. He had a brother called James, born 1794.
The 1841 Census for Whitchurch records that William was not born in Herefordshire so if this is 'my' William Rudge, it fits. English Bicknor is in Gloucestershire.
So my speculation is that somehow William's brother James, and his son Thomas, developed a link to Marstow through William, and Thomas got married there.
But none of that fits in with what you say. But Stroud is a long way from Marstow.
Perhaps we're talking about different Macklins and Rudges?
What do you think?