• General Notes

  I have also been in touch with Christopher Ralph, who is adescendant ofJames Turner Garrett an older brother of Susan Garrett ofCrondall,Hampshire who married John Martin, re Balston's statement that asister ofSusan Garrett was married to  Wilson the Draper.Christopher wrote in one Email "Susannah was the daughter ofGeorge & MaryGarrett, and one of four daughters. The youngest of these,Elizabeth,remained single in Crondall all her life. The next youngest wasSarah, whowas the village schoolmistress, and remained single. The onlyother daughterwas Mary (b 1784), and she must be the one I believe who marriedWilson andlived I think on the Isle of Man.It's all very interesting. The Garretts seem to have been anenterprisingfamily. "The Misses Garrett" were mentioned in one of the localhistories ofCrondall, as I recall, in connection with local archaeology inthe early19th century. I assume these would be Elizabeth and Sarah. TheirbrotherJames became the parish clerk, after starting out as acarpenter. Possiblythe Martins had some influence in this."In a second mail he says"The Garretts first appeared in the parish in 1776 when my 3rdgtgrandfatherJames Turner Garrett was christened, he being Susan[na]'s olderbrother. Anolder child of the family of George & Mary Garrett had been bornin nearbySouth Warnborough 18 months earlier, but I have not been able tofind anymarriage for George and Mary. Mary would have been about 27 in1774 whenJohn was born, so it seems likely that there were older childrenof theunion born elsewhere. There is circumstantial evidence possiblylinking theGarretts with the Portsmouth area in earlier generations.You wrote of Susan: "Alan Nelson informed me [she] was named on30th July1780 and received into the church at Crondall on 22nd November1780 aged 18weeks". Indeed 30th July 1780 is the correct date for George andMary'sdaughter Susanna, and probably she was baptised privately athome, and latertaken to church as stated. I expect you are aware of theheadstone on whichher dates appear, a photograph of which is located athttp://www.flickr.eom/photos/51162504@NOO/1250891861 . Herbirthdate appearsto have been either 27 of June or 27 July 1780. Either way itseems toidentify her neatly with George and Mary Garrett's daughter;Balston'sinformation to the contrary is therefore a puzzle."

Details of Susan's family with John MARTIN