Hello! I've hit a brick wall with an ancestor, could someone please help?

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So, I was looking through English records for more ancestors on my father's line, after someone helped me break through an original brick wall, and I just cannot get past Charles King. I can only find one record of him, and I'm not even sure it is him as I cannot find anything else on any other record website, and all I know is that he was born in 1811 in Gloucestershire and died in 1846, also in Gloucestershire. He was the husband of Sarah Eddles (Eddles-12). The record is linked below. Can someone please help me find his parents and if possible, his grandparents? I would greatly appreciate it.

(https://www.freereg.org.uk/search_records/581833bee93790ec8be84dab/charles-king-baptism-gloucestershire-painswick-1812-04-20?locale=en)
WikiTree profile: Charles King
in Genealogy Help by Will King G2G Crew (940 points)
Sarah Eddles King married again after Charles died.  I have added that to her profile.

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Charles King was perhaps baptised in Kings Stanley, Gloucestershire 16 September 1798, the son of Thomas King & Susannah. 

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:JW6C-1JB

by Anonymous Woody G2G6 Mach 3 (31.8k points)
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Likely this as the 1841 Census for the family:

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M7M7-2J6

by Anonymous Woody G2G6 Mach 3 (31.8k points)
That's the one I added to the son.
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The Painswick baptism of 1812 is certainly a good candidate for Charles. The parents Samuel and Elizabeth (Birt) married in 1803.

Gloucestershire : Painswick : St Mary : Phillimore's Transcript : "Parish Register" database, FreeREG (https://www.freereg.org.uk/search_records/5817df8fe93790eb7fb8601b : viewed 29 Jul 2021) marriage Samuel King to Elizabeth Birt 29 Mar 1803

One tiny argument against is that Charles would only have been 29 for the June 1841 census and adult ages were rounded down to the nearest five years. However, many people were not super-precise about ages and you can only assume he was born around 1807-1812 not precisely in 1811.

I can't find a suitable death record for Charles which is very strange for this period. The death year of 1846 is just an estimate. There's no documentary support.
by Matthew Fletcher G2G6 Pilot (134k points)
family search tree shows this as his parents they were

married at painwick 1803
Considering Sarah married a  second time as a widow in 1848, I'd say the date of 1846 is pretty close.
Something else to be considered is that the name "Kingscote" has  been given to more than one child - in more than one generation.
Of course 1846 is close but I'm just warning against assumptions, even perfectly reasonable ones, acquiring the status of a fact.

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