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Hi Bryce, I’m sorry to say I am not familiar with those names . However ,I can tell you that there were two workhouses in Lacock. One tiny one that looks like a village house and then the GB law was about to change and George Banks a mason and John Gale a carpenter built a large new premises opposite the Lacock village church named St Cyriacs.
At the moment I am in Southern Ireland on another genealogy trail of my mother’s Irish family. I’ll be home in a week or so and look in my records for you.  My late father and aunt started the Banks family research of Lacock around 1946. I have dozens of files that I have inherited.  Dad was a firm believer in negative information being positive because it ruled someone out ! He had a few short articles published in the Wiltshire Recorder which has articles about family history. One of his interests,there were dozens ! , was the workhouse. I know he had info about food and training because I used it with the children I taught.
Dad also has files full of Records about the village. It may well be that your family names may yet be among them. Although Dad was ninety six, he could use a computer but mainly used old fasioned pencil and paper !
A coincidence is your name .   Another part of my Wiltshire family ended up in SAN Francisco where two boys were born. One named Bryce. They returned to the U.K. with their mother around 1870s ( need to check dates ) but sadly ,we think Bryce died as his name disappears from all records.
I’ll do some checking of paper work when I return home. I may yet find something.
Regards Maggie

Hi, I've been working with a family member on this genealogy for fifteen years. My Aunt has died and left me all the research. We hit a brick wall with Margaret Jones. She was born in Philadelphia in 1877 Her parents were John Rowland Jones and Catherine Jones previously Howells and nee Jones. Margaret was the third of four daughters in this marriage. Her parents came from Aberystwyth and emigrated around 1871. They returned to Dalton London and are in the 1881 census. In the 1891 census she is fourteen and recorded as living at home. By 1901 census all the children have left home. Family information states that a trust fund was set up for Margaret Jones and that my grandfather regularly took her money until she was found dead in an attic room in 1926. My grandfather identified the body. We have been lead to believe she had become a prostitute. They were an extremely religious family and her parents were reasonably well off.  Can any one give me ideas where or how I could continue my search for her ? I have no idea if she married but of course she may have changed her name. I have spent the day searching all the Margaret Jones I could find. Then I began on all the Margarets in the 1901 census who gave the USA as place of birth. I'm not having much success ! Not surprising with such a common name. Just wondered if there is anything I may have missed. Thank you. 🤔

Hi all,
I have not seen these postings before and find them very interesting. Some of you will know my tag name from other listings !
I have a Louisa Elizabeth Maslen born about 1821 living in Devizes. In the 1841 census she is working in The Castle Devizes (another family link to the Grace family) by 1846 she has married John Perry of The Pelican and Southbroom Devizes.
My problem, their marriage certificate gives her father's name as George Maslen grocer. She often refers to her place of birth as Covent Garden. I can find her sister Sarah who was adopted aged around nine but can not find her. I have copies of letters written to and from solicitors numbering well over a hundred,I have wills and indentures too but can not find her birth.
I am suspicious ( due to information in the legal papers) that she may have changed her name. Therefore I tried looking for an Elizabeth Maslen with a George as father. There was such a child born about 1820 in a village outside Devizes with George as father and Sarah as mother. Incidentally Louisa Elizabeth's sister was Sarah.  Does any one with Maslen information have these names in their research ? Could the above ramblings ring any bells with anyone ? By coincidence I see that someone is referring to Chandler too. We think that Sarah Grace who ran the Castle in Devizes was a Chandler before she remarried. All ideas welcome !

Hi all, it's 2017 and at long last the problem of John William Neate Perry is solved. Have got hold of yet another legal document where he signs a solicitors document to witness signatures but giving his address as Shepton Mallet...matches BDM documents I took a chance on years ago. Also have found a copy of a will where my great grandmother clearly refers to her brother John William Neate Perry. She also refers to her daughter Lilian Clare Perry who I have also researched on Roots Chat. Solved ! Thank you to every one who has helped over the years. Now on to the next bit....where are his off spring ( I know she died childless but did marry ). 😀😀😀😀😀