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Thanks to everyone for your help.

Yes Joseph Moss, daughter Susannah is definitely mine. He was born in 1800 and died in 1883. Eldon Street is stil there but not the house(s) the family lived in.
isi son Joseph b 1838 married twice. The same year his wife died he married a woman 34 years his junior and had eight further years before he died in 1915.

The info re John Moss came from a new contact who said he got the info from an Ancestry tree and the photo was attached. Sadly, he doesn't have any extra info. Ancestry trees can be unreliable so I suspect this may be a dead end. Re the uniform, it is a cap so maybe boatman is right and it is the Lancashire family.

The John I am pretty confident about was born abt 1785 and married Lydia Hyde from Towcester  in 1815 in Gt Linford, Bucks. They had a son John James, birth date unknown, who married Sarah Foster in Leicester.

Isaac was born  in 1834 in Towcester. Parents Thomas Moss and Hannah Bishop. He died in 1916.

Hi The Mc and Iluleah,
Thanks very much for the leds. I have tried both of those places, without any luck, but I am grateful to you for taking the trouble to let me know about them. The hunt continues...
Many thanks,
Christmassy

I'm finding a few of my family members appear to have spent time in Northants in the late 18th and early 19th century, so far mainly around Towcester. One I am sure of is Joseph Moss who married Sarah Archer in Towcester in 1826, although he was born in Kent and she was born in Bucks.
The family later moved to Leicester.
I am now finding people I think may be related but can't yet prove it, eg John Moss who married Lydia Hyde from Daventry in 1815 in Bucks and then also moved to Leicester.
From visits to Northants records office I see there was quite a big contingent of Moss family in Charlton and that area around 1800-1850.
So, does anyone out there have Moss in their family tree? My best hope of connecting the chains is if I can work backwards from someone living now and we can trace a common ancestor. Here's hoping!
Thanks everyone,
Christmassy

Hello Kookiedee,
That is so very kind of you. I wonder what happened to to the stone? What a shame. If you ever get the photo to upload I would love to see it. Or I think there is a way to post privately, but I'm not sure how.
Anyway, I'm glad of one thing. If I had managed to sort out a trip to the church and then not found a stone I would have been so, so disappointed and your kindness has at least saved me that! So I hope you don't feel it was wasted time.
Very many thanks again for taking the toruble.
Best wishes,
Christmassy

Thanks Little Nell,
He sounds a strong candidate. Here's hoping there is a RootsChat member who is a Cassford!
Thanks again,
Christmassy