1861
William Tyler abt 1783 Whitchurch, Herefordshire, England Head Whitchurch, Herefordshire

1841 Doward
William Tylor abt 1786 Herefordshire, England Whitchurch, Herefordshire
John Tylor abt 1829 Herefordshire, England Whitchurch, Herefordshire

Year: 1784
Month: Sep
Day: 12
Parents_Surname: TYLER
Child_Forenames: William
Fathers_Forenames: William
Mothers_Forenames: Ann
Mothers_Surname:
Residence:
Occupation:
Officiating_Minister:
Event: Baptism
Memoranda:
Notes: Indexed using transcribed notes.
Register_Reference: B39/1
Page_Number:
Parish_Chapel: Whitchurch

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Year: 1822
Month: Jul
Day: 8
Surname: TYLER
Forenames: Margrett
Residence: Welsh Bicknor
Age_at_death: 45 [years]
Officiating_Minister: C Birch
Event: Burial
Cause_of_death:
Memoranda: Wife of William
Notes:
Register_Reference: P227 IN 1/16
Page_No: 84
Parish_Chapel: Newland

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Year: 1838
Month: May
Day: 22
Surname: TYLER
Forenames: Margaret
Residence: Doward
Age_at_death: 6
Officiating_Minister: George Pyrke Rector
Event: Burial
Cause_of_death:
Memoranda:
Notes:
Register_Reference: AC76/7
Page_No: 44
Parish_Chapel: Whitchurch

In more detail, what I covered so far..

Working back from census records and a marriage record (Mitcheldean, 1841, p220 IN 1/8) I am confident I have found William's baptism (English Bicknor, 1812, P138 in 1/4 page 32), which records parents as William and Margaret Tyler.

With those names I found a marriage of William Tyler and Margaret Merrick (Goodrich, 1806, BF16/8), as well as siblings John (b1807) and another William (b1809, d1810). Merrick is a common middle name in the following generations. So I am confident this is William(1812)'s parents and siblings.

I have found a birth record for Margaret Merrick (Weston Under Penyard, 1777, AA33/3) which appears reasonable – no other Margaret Merrick's in Forest of Dean birth records with a better age at marriage.

Now, where I need help …

William's birth record :
In looking for potential birth records for William (senior) I have found 5 William Tylers born about the right year for marriage in 1806

1787 TYLER William Baptism Newnham
1781 TYLER William Baptism Aston Ingham
1784 TYLER William Baptism Bromsberrow
1784 TYLER William Buckle Baptism Longney
1784 TYLER William Baptism Whitchurch

Do you have any suggestions about how to further work out which it is? William(junior) and Margaret's marriage record has no online information about either of their parents. Is there likely to be additional information that was not transcribed?

Margaret's Death Record:
I checked every burial record for a Margaret Tyler in the Forest of Dean records, with no age-at-death that would even come close to being right. I also had difficulty finding a Margaret Tyler with the right age in the FreeBMD indices.

William's Death Record:
I have found two candidate death records. One in the Forest-of-Dean records (Burial, Whitchurch, 24/11/1863, age 79), and one in the FreeBMD records (Monmouth, 17/9/1863, age 78). Is it possible these are the same record? There are no parent names on the online Whitchurch burial record – could there be more in the paper record? Even if these are correct, how would I match these to the William-Margaret marriage, or to the correct birth record above? Especially without parent's names?

Census records
On the reasonable assumption (from above) that William and Margaret lived to their late 50s, I would expect to see them (hopefully together) in the 1841 census record. However I could not find them together in the public online records. Is there likely to be any more complete or detailed local records from the 1841 census?

Mike Tyler
Melbourne, Australia