Edwards & Stokes Families in Lincolnshire

Tracking the family tree through the censuses a lot of people seemed to go to, or end up in Lincolnshire.  Some of their descendants are still there to this day!  I've tried to sort them all out and draw up a mini tree for the Lincolnshire roots, but it seems to have a pivotal point of my great-great-great-grandparents John and Jane Stokes. Here's what I've made of the family tree for Lincolnshire at the moment:

John and Jane had two sons who showed up in Lincolnshire in the Censuses:

• William Stokes 1838-1926
• Alfred Fineden Stokes 1836-1906(?)

But, they seem to have also taken with them some of their nephews, their sisters' children:

• John Willmot 1845-
• George Stokes/Edwards 1845-1904
• William Edwards 1852-1888(?)
• David Edwards 1862-1949

So, in total, that's six of them relocating to Lincolnshire either temporarily or permanently.  Trying to put them into date order of settlement, I came up with the following:

• 1861: William Stokes (b. 1838) first appeared in the 1861 Census in Lincolnshire, 1 mile from Grayingham.  His descendants ended up settling in Scotter, where the village website has a lot of information about the family.
• 1861: Alfred Stokes (b. 1836) first appeared in the 1861 Census in Grayingham, Lincolnshire. He moved about a lot, moved away, then moved back - his grandson was killed in action in WW1, on 31 July 1917 at Ypres with the Lincolnshire Regiment.  At the moment, I think he and his wife went with their daughter to Northamptonshire in their dotage, dying in Northamptonshire - after which time the daughter and family returned to the Nottinghamshire/Lincolnshire border.
• 1861: John Willmot (b. 1845) at Grayingham, Lincolnshire . Aged 16, the Census has him down as 14.  He's a groom. After this, John returned to his home turf, where he married. After that there's a possibility he went to Canada, which I'll follow up at some point. 
• 1876: William (b. 1852) was in the 1881 Census, in Scunthorpe, but I think he married in 1876 in Glanford Brigg. I believe he probably spent the rest of his life in the Scunthorpe area.
• 1881: George Stokes/Edwards (b. 1845) might be the one in the 1881 Census in Spalding prison!  This is tricky as George was born out of wedlock, but seems to have adopted the same family name as the rest of them - although I could just be a bit wrong here.  Although the Census says the prisoner is aged 32, George'd have been closer to 37 at the time.  I looked into this a little more and it seems he was simply being held for 2-3 days until a court case where he'd passed forged coins in pubs and been caught.  This is called "uttering currency". Naughty boy! It is possible there's another George. Sometimes some names are hard to trace and/or too common to really know you've got it right.
  Anyway - it turns out that I think George Stokes might turn out to be the most unexpected/exciting one in the tree (well, a bit of a bad boy), but I don't want to sully his name until I've at least got my audit trail in place.  He married his brother's wife's sister.  This was one of my quests "two brothers married two sisters in Donington", but it turned out to be two half brothers married two sisters, one in Donington and the other one nearby (but I've got to find that marriage yet!).  George Stokes married Mary Susanah Garner Crampton in 1890 in the Glanford Brigg Registration District.  Mary Susan, as the name shows up in FreeBMD is the older sister of Ann Crampton who married David Edwards.  And there's a twist .... naughty George was 20 years older than Mary!  But, I've got to double check all this as I've only just "discovered" it all. 
• 1887: David Edwards (b. 1862) appeared at Harpswell in 1891, aged 28. A waggoner with a wife/children.  Their first born appears to have been born in Donington in 1888, so he must've been in the area since at least 1887. He stayed and raised a family, living in the same cottage in Broughton for nearly 50 years! David and his wife Ann raised a large family in Broughton, who are probably still there today!

So, of the six family members that headed East from Cambridgeshire to Lincolnshire, only one "returned home".
The family mystery here is that I've got a snippet of "two brothers married two sisters, at Donington" - and, so far, I've not nailed that.  I need to see a lot of parish records to work out who it was.  It's probably David/Ann, but I need to get to the bottom of that snippet and family mystery at some point.

So, that's it so far.  When you build your tree you find you make assumptions and pencil ideas into the tree - and it might be some time before you get a "lucky lead" .... but you can't just have "dead certs" on the tree or it'd look a bit bleak and empty!