I am johnwhitehead60 and Amos Holding is my 2 x Gt Grandfather. I’ve Managed to obtain quite a full history of Amos’s children, there are many newspaper cuttings about Amos and his family and they are on my ancestry tree. Amos’s son Robert was shipwrecked and his Gt Granddaughter wrote a book about his time being shipwrecked which included snippets about his life taken from his own manuscript and her travels to the Auckland Islands. The book was written in 1997. One such item is that he tried to runaway from home and was caught by his Father, Amos and his uncle Wolston. I can find no record of a Wolston Holding in Bedfordshire or Huntingdonshire. All records for Amos state he was born in Keysoe. When Robert ran away they were living in Brampton, he says before being caught he passed by his Grandmother’s house on his way to Bedford and passed by un noticed. within 3 miles of Bedford he noticed his father Amos following him with his Uncle Wolston. It was but a short time before I was back on my way to Kimbolton. Newspaper cuttings confirm all these areas. Robert also states at the start of the book that he is Robert Holding son of Amos Holding of Keysoe and Fanny Eliza Donnelly of Brampton. He believes he was born at Brampton on 17 March 1840.There are records for Keysoe of an Eliza Holding and a Louisa Holding. Eliza Holding married Alfred Cunnington and Louisa married George WOOLSTON. This would, I believe, make him the Uncle Wolston - his Father’s sister’s husband. Both their marriage certificates state their Father as Robert Holding. There is Robert Holding born in Keysoe abt 1797 who was transported in 1823 for 14 years. All 3 children would have been born/conceived before he left. I have been unable to go back further. There is a death of a Robert Holding in 1865 in Bedford Union Workhouse which is a possible if he returned, not proven.