Hi, No one has ever found Joseph's marriage record nor his baptism for certain. They could have married at Tillingham or married really late like his son did, after he'd fathered 7 children, or perhaps Joseph and Hannah never married at all. I'm not sure whether Joseph was baptised 24 Sept 1738 at White Notley, Essex, England or at Brightlingsea, Essex, 7 Nov 1725, or at Tillingham date unknown. At least on of the parish registers had no entries for 20 years, that was noted by the next incumbent, I can't remember which church it was. We have quite a few general DNA matches in the Braintree and Bocking area, but not many at Brightlingsea, a few in the Witham and Harwich areas, none link in with Joseph.
