Hi,

I'm hoping someone maybe able to give me some advice on my Dean family.

I'm excited to have traced this branch of my family back to the late 17th century mostly due to other researchers efforts with evidence and sources quoted eg. parish records and wills etc.

This one however is proving a real headache:

Parents
William & Eleanor
William Dean Bapt' 10 Jun 1753 Ellenhall, Staffordshire

The problem is I can't find any wedding entry for Willam & Eleanor and also any other children bapts' to them which seems strange.

I did find a wedding entry:
William Dean & Jane Backhouse
1 Jan 1745, Ellenhall, Staffordshire

I'm wondering if Eleanor and Jane are the same person and she used both names but how can I check this without paying monies to order the parish records which may not help ?

I can't find any records of Jane Backhouse or any children Bapt to William & Jane ??

I found the above entries on the IGI (yes I know) and the parish records on ancestry.

The Dean family seems to have been well established around the Stafford area and married into other local farming families. Interestingly I've seen records on the IGI and Ancestry of the Dain/Dayne families also around the same area and wondering if they were somehow connected to the Deans.

I'm not sure what to do next to track down William & Eleonor marriage ????

Regards
Adrian