I am in dire need of another view!   I have been researching my “Cousins” line, with all the spelling variations that go with that.   The earliest I have is Thomas born 1802-1806 in Johnston.  He married Sarah Jenkins in 1834.  She was born in Johnston between 1812-1816 (although if you believed the 1851 census then is was 1804).  He was a collier.   From the IGI and various censuses they had the following children: Louisa born 1835 Elizabethborn 1836 Moses born 1839 George born 1841 Esther born 1845 William born 1849 James 1852   I have them living together in Johnston in 1841 and 1851, and then in 1861 Thomas is in prison, and Sarah is in Johnston with her youngest son.   I have not found Thomas in 1871, and Sarah is living in Johnston with a granddaughter, Mary describing herself as a “Coal miners Wife”.   In 1881 Sarah 69 is living with her granddaughter Mary in Turnpike Cottage, Johnston collecting tolls.  She is still described as married.  There is a married Thomas, 84 (born 1797) labouring and lodging on his own in Llanstadwell, in the house of John Rees (born 1835) and his wife Elizabeth (born 1836) and step son John Cousins (aged).  All apart from John Cousins were born in Johnston.  I have been working on the assumption that this is my Thomas, and that Elizabeth Rees was probably his daughter.   There is a marriage of a John Rees and Elizabeth Couzens in 1880 Oct Pembroke 11A 1267.  This is the only one between 1861 and 1881 that I have found.   Neither Thomas nor Sarah have been found in the 1891 census, so I presumed that they died between 1881-1891, and found the following   Dec 1883 Pembroke 11A 477 COZENS, Thomas Dec 1889 Pembroke 11A 611 COZENS, Sarah.   I ordered these 3 certificates which have arrived and now I am in a muddle.   1880 Marriage Certificate Elizabeth’s age is given as 20, although her father is Thomas, but a farmer.  John Rees is 21, and they are living in Angle.  So this obviously was the not the marriage of my Thomas’s daughter Elizabeth.   1883 Death Certificate Thomas died at The Gale, Llanstadwell aged 70, and the death was registered by his son in law John Rees.   1889 Death Certificate Sarah died at (Honeyborough), the Gale, Llanstadwell aged 73 and the death was registered by her nephew Thomas Cozens.   Do people think that the 1883 death I have identified is my Thomas?  I am completely thrown by the marriage certificate and that if the John Rees in 1881 is the same as the one in 1883 how Thomas’s age varies by almost 20 years.  Then I am even more confused by the fact that Sarah seems to have died at the same / similar location.   Any thoughts on how to sort this out would be appreciated.   Megan