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I really have nothing more to add to Benjamin and the family.

My friend wouldn't have used any of the services you suggest. I did this research for her as a gift from her husband and not because she was pursuing her ancestry.

I used to research a great deal but my interests have changed lately.

All the best with your family research

PS,

I think the Alex Brown who died in 1845 was Alex senior's first son born 1761. I have him on 1841 census. Alex the elder would have been born in about 1735 to marry in 1760 to Isabel Hamilton

Looking for information on father and son of same name.
Houston senior was born in Scotland in 1776 but spent a lot of time in Langley area of Buckinghamshire. He fathered three children with much younger SARAH ATKINS in LANGLEY (1841 census) before marrying her in Hillingdon, London in 1845. They had a further two children all christened at Langley Marish.

Houston Rigg 1841-? (joined 1st battalion 11th infantry 1860 in Portsmouth)
Janet 1842-1884
Hamilton 1844-1914
Agnes 1846-1931
Sarah 1848-?

Houston senior appears to have deserted his children after the death of wife Sarah in 1849 possibly (not confirmed with certificate). Some spent time with aunts and uncles as well as in the workhouse.

He died in London in 1857 whilst living in Southampton Row but I failed to trace him in 1851, when he
probably didn't want to be found! His father was Alexander Brown a wine merchant & his mother Isabel Hamilton.

Please can anyone throw any more light on these two - I have scoured all possible sources! I do know Houston senior was member of The Royal Order in Scotland too and could have been previously married to Agnes Berry when he was 20.

Thank you. That is interesting.

I have spent hours pouring over Joseph Walker and now comparing the other Joseph Walker who married Ann Sheffield in 1826........I have even found a connection between the families on 1871 census, when daughter Mary Ann (then married to Thomas Reeves) had lodgers Ann Walker, 66 widow  (this would be Ann Sheffield) and Mary Walker, unmarried 72, along with Ann's youngest son Alfred Albert. Why would the latter three be lodging with the Reeves?
 Interesting conclusions could be made and I am working on it. But I cannot find strong evidence to date.
The lack of records is so frustrating. The only 1841 census with the three children named as Alfred, Elizabeth & baby Mary in Birmingham has mother named as Sarah. But Alfreds aren't that common.

Ann's Joseph is a plater then warehouseman. But maybe an absent father can be explained by describing him as a commercial traveller!
There is one other Joseph Walker  around at the time but he can be eliminated.

Thank you so much for your input and of those burials - if he died the St Martin's burial would be most likely.

Out of time........but very interested in your thought if you can make head or tail of my quickly written jumbled reply!