Thomas Manctellow's father

@Thomas Manktelow. I received a (snail mail) letter from cousin Jean Shortland, dated 8 Feb 2010, saying ....
"I know th previous sheet is our correct line.
Having checked it through all the births, deaths, marriages & census records that were available. I don't know where Glenda got her records from or who but, she had the wrong Thomas married to Sarah Page. He would have been 13 at the time.
Years ago I got given (it may have been from you*) a typewritten print out of the records from Wadhurst & Mayfield. It was stapled together and all Mankelows that figured on those parish records, were typed up. I think the person who typed it up said they came across 25 different spelling of Mankelow. I could never make sense of it for more than 15+ years. Who were our line? who wasn't? Who belonged to who?
But when I began to order the films and records back in Porirua and go through them starting with Thomas Mankelow and Sarah Page Marriage cert. 31 Jan 1848, I gradually began to unravel the line. His parents, Elizabeth & William (Mabb) had their children in two parishes, Mayfield and Wadhurst. That was a big breakthrough, always there were many Elizabeths, Thomases, Johns and Williams etc. So it was quite a lot of detective work to sort it out. Finding William's baptism was good. He had Mab on it and then his Mother & Father's marriage - William Mankelow to Ann Mae (b) gave me the definite clue we are correct.
Those typed up pages had Ann Mae - either a typing error because the original scripts are hard to read or interpretation of the script.
Anyway I did sort out those middle years, then it comes to John's parents.

(more to come)

* they came from a McKellow in Christchurch who travelled up to Auckland to see me and compare notes.

@Thomas Manktelow. To page 2 of cousin Jean Shortland's letter ...
Then it comes to John's parents Francis and Elizabeth Moone - I am having a blank right now and can't remember how I tied Francis to John - I can't find a marriage cert. in my folder so I'll have to say to that point, I don't have hard evidence for the link between John to his parents Francis & Elizabeth Moone. I can't be sure right now, 2010.
I have the baptisms of all Francis Elizabeth Moone's kids though.
Glenda sent Chrissie some family groups and it was this that I used to put the William - Martha Joy groups together. I think these came from someone else, maybe Arthur, Bryan?
I've tried mostly to do our direct line.
I have sorted some others a bit, but not too much. I still don't use computers or type. Harris receives the emails and prints them off for me and Moana will now be able to do the email stuff to do with genealogy for me, now we are only 12 km away from each other.