Family Group Sheet
Elizabeth Evans (1703-81)
and Robert Raine (1705-42)
and then John Vanderband (-1776/7)

Immediate Family Group

1. John Rein (1725-)
2. Elizabeth Rain (1727-8)
3. Clarinda Rain (1729-9)
4. Elizabeth Rain (1730-41)
5. Sarah Rain (1732-)
6. Thomasin Rain (1735-)

Paternal grandfather: Pentecost Raine
Paternal grandmother: Jane Congdon
Maternal grandfather: unknown
Maternal grandmother: unknown

It seems most probable that she remarried
Father: John Vanderband (-1776/7)
Married: 22 Jul 1744, Antony
Children:

1. Honor Vanderband (1745-)
2. Susanna Vanderband (1746-)

Brief Description

1. Joseph Raine (1687-)
2. Dorothy Rain (1689-)
3. John Raign (1691-)
4. Pentecost Reine (1693-)
5. Jone Reign (1695-)
6. Abraham Rein (1698-)
7. Sarah Rein (1698-)
8. Edward Rein (1701-31)
9. Jane Rein (1703-)
10. Robert Rein (1705-)

Elizabeth was baptised on 26 Feb 1703 at Antony, daughter of William and Honor Evans. They had married only 3 months earlier, also at Antony. Williams Evans and Honer Colling married 6 Nov 1703. Their children were:

1. Eliz Evans (1703-)
2. Honor Evans (1705-)
3. Susanna Evans (1707-)
4. Pasco Evans (1709-)
5. John Evens (1711-)
6. Anne Evans (1713-)

All Robert and Elizabeth's children were baptised in the parish and it appears that the family did not move. They appear to be the only Rain family living in the parish at this time, and her family were the only Evans family in the parish at the start of the 18th century until 1729.

After Robert's death it seems most probable that it was this Elizabeth Raine who married John Vanderband. It was the second marriage for both of them. They each had had 6 children by their 1st spouses, with their eldest children each being baptised in 1725. At least 2 of her children were infant deaths as well as the 2nd Elizabeth who died aged 11, as were 2 of his. So there would have been no more than 7 children at the time of the marriage, well within the range of a typical family size for this era.

1. Philippa Vanderband (1725-) who married 3 years later
2. John Rein (1725-)
3. Margaret Vanderband (1728-) who married 9 years later
4. John Vanderband (1731-76/7) who married 7 years later
5. Sarah Rain (1732-)
6. Peter Vanderband (1734-73) who married 4 years later, apparently aged 14, possibly claiming the date of birth of his elder sibling with the same name who had been born 8 years earlier in 1722!
7. Thomasin Rain (1735-)

Due to the absence of IGI information on this parish for the relevant years, more research needs to be done on the Rain children using either the parish registers (Cornwall Record Office), of the Bishop's transcripts (West Devon Record Office) or the Devon and Cornwall Record Society transcripts at Exeter.

Other possibilities for the Elizabeth Rain who married John Vanderband include Elizabeth's from the parishes of Lanreath (1708) or St Veep (1724). However, these seem less likely since they lived in other non-adjacent parishes while there was an Elizabeth Raine living in the same parish who had been widowed 2 years before the marriage. Also, she named her daughters with John after 2 of her sisters, and in the same order as her sisters had been born.

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