BLANCH AGAIN -Georgraphic help needed if you are there Slowhands! (General)

by Simone , Wednesday, January 10, 2007, 03:37 (6529 days ago)

Hi - here we go again! Sorry hopeless at geography and definitely no sense of direction!

Going back to the possible London/Yarmouth connections for my Blanch Family- and bearing in mind that Susan b London c 1766 on the census could possibly be mother to my Elizabeth b Yarmouth, and Edward b Yarmouth, Battersey,or Bethnal Green!!

I have found on the IGI

2 children b at Yarmouth to Thomas Blanch and Susanna Walpole,
Susanna baptised 5/1/1798, Sarah baptised 15/5/1796 both baptised at St Nicholas, Gt Yarmouth
Strangley there is another Susanna <Blanch> (what do the funny brackets mean?)baptised the same date as the Yarmouth one, 5/1/1798 to Thomas Blanch and Susanna Walpole at Earsdon by North Shields, Northumberland!!

I then found this marriage-

THOMAS BLANCH m Susannah Worpole at Clapham, Surrey 19/7/1793-

So bearing in mind what we have already found on census concerning Edward and Elizabeth, would Clapham be the right area for this couple to have married?

The date is good for then to have started having children a couple of years later-

What on earth does the Northumberland entry mean? Was this family hopping baout from one county to the other, but then you wouldn't baptise a child twice surely. Or could that entry just be coincidence.

Someones pulling my leg I think!