The Truelove family

The Truelove family were living in Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire from at least 1671, when John Truelove married Elizabeth Goodsole at the parish church.

Prior to this, I speculate that John Truelove was the son of Edward Truelove and his wife Joan (née Pratt) who married in 1654 and lived in Leighton Buzzard.

However, I have not been able to locate the baptism of John in what is most likely to have been post-1654 (bearing in mind that he married in 1671), although it appears that his siblings are featured.

There is one possibility that I have found so far and this is that on 31st July 1649 a John Truelove was christened at Saint Botolph Bishopsgate, London. This John's parents are noted as an Edward Truelove (which matches and is possible, although he'd be only 17yrs old) and Elizabeth. Could this be John's parents - making Joan Pratt his step-mother? The research continues!