Fee - What a good piece of research - well done! I was getting there but you beat me to it. A question of a second marriage and assumptions about the parentage of children - how we've all been caught out by a similar situation! Pat ----- Original Message ----- From: "Fee Manley" <feemanley@sky.com> To: <bristol_and_district@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, May 16, 2010 7:58 AM Subject: Re: [B&D] A conundrum > Hello again Roger. > > According to the IGI from www.familysearch.org William BAYNTON married > Cornelia BUCKLER in Warminster in 1823 and had offspring William Buckler > BAYNTON in 1824 and Robert Ashman BAYNTON in 1827. > > Sarah Hollyman KNIGHT born 1816 and Emma Sophia KNIGHT born 1826 are > listed > as being the daughters of Richard KNIGHT and Sophia as well as a third > daughter Jane Ellen who was born in 1831. > >>From Free BMD William BAYNTON married in Septembe qtr 1839 Bedminster > district to Sophia KNIGHT. > > So it looks like the Knight girls were step-daughters of William BAYNTON. > > Given the middle name of Sarah Hollyman KNIGHT I would guess that her > mother's maiden name was Hollyman. > >>From the census entries Sophia (wife of William BAYNTON) was born in >>Abbots > Leigh c. 1793. > The IGI lists a Sophia HOLLYMAN Christened 1790 Abbots Leigh. > > Hope this helps. > > Fee