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Wendy, there are 33 marriages for a Sarah Smith between 1815-1835 at St Leonards, and there's no saying she would have married in the parish of her baptism, let alone died as a child.

With a name like Smith, it's going to be very difficult.

Ozi

Exactly Ozi, so hard having such a common name to find the vital links.
I think the fact that Frederick's witness was Sarah Smith would indicate that she would have to have been a close relative, and highly possible his sister. We know that his mother was Susannah, so eliminates that relative. As this was his first marriage, and from records, he did not have a daughter called Sarah.
This would leave only a sister, or unmarried Aunt.
What I was hoping to find was the neighbours to Frederick per each census, to see if there was a Susannah, or Sarah living nearby, as was often the case. But unfortunately FreeBMD has no London/Middlesex census records for 1841 and 1851, and I can't find and records in their census in any years for any of the know names.
I think this search is going to be a process of elimination, rather than finding the right relative straight away :(

Nudging this along.
I need to get back on track and source out Sarah Smith, and her relationship with Susannah and/or Frederic.
Also to focus perhaps on Bart. and Mary Smith, and to determine if 'my' Susannah is their daughter.
I would also like to dig a bit deeper into Samuel Leake and find out what happened to him.
PS Happy new Year to you all, hope you had a great Christmas. :-)

Nudging along to return to my search for Sarah Smith

Nudging again