Interesting....once again looking at the information I was given - it appears Elizabeth's 2nd husband may have been a Baker, maybe she met him through Richard's work connections. Here is some of the info I have, it also mentions that the Merritt's owned an inn.
"Her new husband was James Merritt, who described himself variously as a wheelwright and a baker"
"Some time after 1830 the family moved to Shripney, another village rather further away from Chichester, (north of Bognor Regis) and took over the inn and a bakehouse. The name of the inn was ‘The Robin Hood’ and on a sign outside was painted a rhyme, which ended ‘And if Robin isn’t in, come and drink with Little Jim’"
Elizabeth Flavell (nee Newell, formerly Barnard and Merritt) died in New South Wales in 1878 aged 96 (as stipulated on her death certificate) making her born approx 1782. Her death certificate states her Father was John Newell, mother Elizabeth. If this is the correct Richard Barnet Barnard maybe it is his grandmother staying with the family? Or you could be right and this is all a red herring!
