Helen,
Yes, I did receive your long list of names (tree) - for which thanks to you.
I have looked down through them for any development of the "Blagdon
Challenger" tree. As you say, names other than Challenger (or similar) would
not be of interest to me UNLESS they throw light on the Challenger research
itself.
At this stage I still have to consider that, whereas your Challengers
evolved from Challenors (as did those at Clutton), the reason I am stuck on
my own research at about 1783 may be because they evolved from some other
name such as
Chancello(u)r or Chandler which I have not been regularly recording until
recently.
I have noted that Chancello(u)r and Changler are used in the second half of
the 18th century for what appears to be two families (but no doubt one if
you go back a generation) at Wraxall and Tickenham (contiguous with Nailsea,
where my own family certainly had connections) and that Chandler, Changler
and Challenger are used interchangeably in Bedminster in the 1780s and
1790s.
The Wraxall / Tickenham families stem from:
William and Mary Chancellour (I have so far found baps. 1727 - 1732, but I
anticipate there are others).
John and Flower Chancellour (baps. at least 1733 - 1741).
Kind regards = N McCarthy