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Brennden,
   Looking at Herman Volkert, looks like he is with sister Elizabeth Margeret who marries a Charles Peck in 1901 census . Elizabeth states father to be a Leonard Volkert (engineer)
 He goes on to marry in 1904 to Eleanor L J Cossentine. has a family and dies in Manchester in 1946 having put a Henry in front of Herman on name . He is also in the 1939 as Henry Herman Volkert.
  So alot of Volkerts from the same area of Germany in the same area of Manchester but the only way to link them would be to prove  father Leonard is a brother or some relation to Johann , father to Bertha , Lizzie and Carl /leonard.
                                   Regards
                                              Richard.

Hi Sunic,
  It is indeed a very old post. Sadly 11 years on I'm still no wiser as to Mary Verall. I have so often found that pre 1800 records are a matter of digging and hoping it all falls into place.  My main research had been the Costers  who began with William b. 1781 in Marlow. who moved to Eastbourne. Fortunately I live not far from Marlow, and was able to spend a lot of time going through church records but even so I only got back to about 1690.
   I did however have a lot of fun with the Russia / New Zealand link mentioned in this thread and again it was a sheer luck thing. Found a dead australian e mail, googled the Australian phone book, rang a number and found a pile of Coster descendants in NZ, descended from a Coster sister who emigrated there. She had two sisters who were governesses in Russia to the Russian Royal family. The New Zealand descendants had letters from them but presumed they had both died in the revolution. I had to ruin a great family story proving they both escaped and lived to a ripe old age in Eastbourne.
       Sorry I cannot be more helpful
                                        Richard.

 I have a  great grandfather born in 1847 in Stockport or Edgeley, Cheshire, who has proved very difficult to track down in census records until 1891 when he finally appears in Radford Semele Warwickshire and is recorded as a  soldier formerly in the 6th Royal Warwickshire Regiment and a volunteer marker.  Oral family history has it that he was in India and survived cholera. I would estimated he left the army between 1881 and 1883 as he married in Warwickshire in 1884.
I have tried various searches , contacted the Warwickshire Regiment museum, etc, etc but am getting nowhere.
   Any suggestions gratefully recieved
                                       Richard

Still digging on this one , but I now have a picture of the Freys, unfortunately no date, names or place

Right here's what I think so far , James Coldwell is the James listed in 1841 as an apprentice in the home of Henry and Fanny Coldwell, a master journeyman, not unlike the William Coldwell, another apprentice next door in the home of master journeyman Thomas Holdsworth, and others on that page. This would fit the practice of apprentices living in. Then to the John Coldwell , again looking at the 1841 I think he may well be the John, age 55 living with daughters Mary, Sarah and Fanny and son Benjamin.
 The additional Coldwells  Pam listed, Mary ,Joseph, Catherine and Sussanah are in fact in the next house and listed as parent absent in the actual census.
 So I think I now have John, with sons James,Benjamin, and daughters Mary, Sarah and Fanny. It looks a reasonable propersition to me , what do others think? 
                     Richard

Benjamin born 1821 turns up in 1861 married,as born Deepcar, same as Mary and John state their birthplace to be ..........