His marriage to Sarah produced seven known children, Mary R37 baptised on the 16 October 1791, Sarah R38 baptised in 1793, Elizabeth R39 baptised 1796, Robert R20, my descendent in 1798. Mary Ann R53 in 1799, Sarah R54 in 1800 and last but not least John R55 in the year of Robert's death 1803. An extract of the Raynham Tree at the end of this chapter shows Robert and his family.

Of his children, Mary married Carrington Sheldrake at Chelsworth  in 1816, a descendent of Carrington has been located together with the information that Mary probably died prior to Carrington's second marriage in June 1836 [1] . Sarah married Robert Partridge in 1839 at Chelsworth and is mentioned in Chapter 1. His daughter Mary Ann married Charles Double in 1820 at Woolverstone, Suffolk; he was innkeeper of at Chelmondiston at the time of the 1841 and 1851 census es. Another daughter Susan married John Scott at Kettlebaston in 1827.

Robert would have lived through a critical period of English history, with the beginnings of the Industrial Revolution, the golden years of agriculture, the Napoleonic Wars and the exodus of people from the countryside to the industrial and commercial areas of northern England and London.

By 1801 Great Britain had become the United Kingdom with the Act of Union and the unification with Ireland.

With the death of Robert Raynham R32 in 1803 my Raynham direct descendant connection with Chelsworth  came to an end; his son Robert R20 continued to live and assume worked around Chelsworth until his journey to East London some years later. Robert was the subject of Chapter 1, as for those Raynhams that remained in Chelsworth they are explored in Chapter 9.