Claim: In 1865, Sydney Thelwall (who died in Leamington in 1922) became an Ordained deacon at Exeter, married a Reverend's daughter named Susan that same year, and became a priest in 1866.
Evidence: Ordained deacon at Exeter in 1865, and priest in 1866, he was curate of St Paul, Devonport from 1865 to 1867, and Assistant-master at Plymouth Grammar School. In 1865 he married Susan, daughter of Rev. S. W. Barnett, vicar of Towersey. In 1911 he was living at Leamington where he later died in 1922.