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Thanks!  I think I have found the family on the Mormon site and that Thomas' parents were John and Elizabeth.  Next time I am in the area I will try the local church records.
Thomas had a brother called Richard and I think another one called Stephen, so I will try and see whether Stephen was the uncle or the brother.
 

I am tracing my husband's 3xgt grandfather above, who, I believe was born in Mountfitchet, Stansted in 1791.  He married a Catherine Randall in 1809 in Bassingbourne, Cambridgeshire.  they appear to have had several children, many of whom died.  His son Joseph, is the direct line.

many thanks
crazycazx

That is the one, his daughter-in-law, my husband's Auntie Hazel (who is 90) told me he was injured, but thought it was in WWI.  She had the original photo and let me copy it.  I will ask a friend who recognises uniforms if he can identify it.

Thanks again.

I am trying to find a war record for Reuben James Peddar.  I know he was injured in WWI when the wheel of a gun rolled over his stomach and after suffering ill health afterwards, he died in 1928 at 51 years of age.
I have a photo of him in uniform (high collar and a lanyard) which was taken in Malta.  i have since discovered that soldiers badly wounded, expecially at Gallipoli and Salonika were taked to Malta to recuperate.  I can find no military record of him, but he lived in Hertfordshire, and I know that a 54th Division East Anglian regiment (I think it was part of the Territorial Army) went to Gallipoli.  Perhaps that is why there is no record.  The other regiments appear to be from Ireland and the Borders, so I wouldn't think he would have joined those.

Many thanks
Carole

Thank you for this Monica.  On the christening, it looks like an Italian family!!  Maria's birth fits in with Mary on the 1901 census which I have printed off.

I will look for a Charlotta Fox on ancestry and on Scotland's people for the marriage.

thanks again!

Carole