Hi, if you go to genuki/devon and towns and parishes , and b for Branscombe, you will see that the chr are on familysearch from 1539-1812. The other thing about the 1851 census entry is that Charles Willis is a farmer of 120 acres employing 4 labs. And he and Caroline have 7 children all born Marston Magna . .With that amount of land tenanted or owned, there must be some connection with the parish for some time and probably Willis wills . Freereg has a marriage of a Charles Willis to Mary Cross in Stoke Trister in 1832 , both are of this parish . life is hard . soften it with a cat \\\=^..^=/// ----- Original Message ----- From: "julie roberts" <dewie58@tadaust.org.au> To: <ENG-SOMERSET@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, January 02, 2014 9:56 AM Subject: [ENG-SOM] Willis family from Marston Magna Somerset > Happy new year to all. > I have my gg grandfather's family from Somerset and know not much about > them. > Charles Willis born abt 1809 Marston Magna Somerset and married Caroline > Cross in about 1837. > No parents of family known only neice Elizabeth Stacey on reocrds from > Trent and husband Mudford Somerset. > Any help appreciated as their 2 known sons died early in Australia. > Kind regards.Julie.Aust > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > ENG-SOMERSET-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >