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I have traced my family back to a John Adams, an arts and curiosity dealer who married Jane Bell in St Anne Soho (London) in 1804, and was presumably born around 1780.
His death hasn't been confirmed yet, but the best shot is a burial of a John Adams in 1837 (before the first GRO docs I'm afraid) who is said to have lived in King's Street. All other documents show him at Duke's Court, which is right around the corner.

I have one DNA match that confirms this ancestry.

Now, I have two other matches who both descend from a Bertram George Adams, born in 1852 in Hastings, Sussex, who emigrated to the US in the 1870s. I could find only one Bertram Adams in the 1861 and 1871 census, born around 1852 and living in Hastings with his grandparents. The only birth certificate of a Bertram Adams has no maiden name, and the only baptism says "mother: Clara Adams" and gives no father. So he must have been an illegitimate child.
Clara was born in autumn 1830, her parents being George (born in the 1790s) and Harriett. This fits in with the grandparents' names, though Clara is nowhere to be found after Bertram's birth.

The problem is, that this family lived in Sussex and George was supposedly born in Yalding, Kent. I can't find his baptism anywhere, and I'm wondering how it will fit in with "my" John Adams...
He's 10-15 years older, and was most probably born in Westminster (I have 3 possible candidates).

Is anyone researching Adamses in either London, Sussex or Kent?

Good find about Catherine FERGUSON/ADAMS/SMITH    Following you trail I see that in 1871 she has a POB as Ireland, the same as 1841, maybe she was an Army child as wasn't sure where she was born   I think her DOB is 1804 rather than 1824.

Yes, 1824 is her daughter Ann Adams. I think too that Catherine was born around 1804. This means she was very young when she married (only 18), while James was in his 30's.

This looks like Martha's marriage which helps confirm that she is the daughter of James,

John STEVENSON
Bachelor 

Yes, I had found this as well.

Witnesses:  George ADAMS, Charle? ROBERTS
So who is George ADAMS? A brother, cousin, or just a coincidence?
You are trying to find out how James ADAMS connects to John ADAMS, is there a George in that family?

Well, that George was one of the reasons I started looking into this Adams family. My John has a son called George, and his son John also has a son called George. No James though...

This link shows (amongst others) some possible children for James ADAMS and Catherine in Ireland,

I'll have a look at these!

James ADAMS, of Royal Artillery, and Catherine O'MEARA married on 23 November 1823 at Carrigrohane.

Hmmm... So it looks like we have two different couples James Adams x Catherine in the same area at the same time. That makes finding his children complicated.

Thanks for the hints!

Regards,
Tom

Also, the Elizabeth Henderson marriage to Charles South in 1854 has the witnesses Thomas and Margaret Henderson.  I think the Thomas Henderson signature was written by the same hand as the Thomas Henderson marrying 1834.

Elizabeth Henderson b.1823 Berwick Street  parents James & Ann - tailor

(Great) Windmill Street and Panton Square were very close to one another, but not the same place.

Elizabeth (who must have died young) daughter of James & Ann, was born 1813 at Great Windmill Street, so very possible that the family were living there two years earlier when James was born.

There’s a lot pointing towards James 1.

Sorry for my late reply, for some reason I didn't get a notification...

The mother of Elizabeth would have been Ann Lidster, born in London, so probably not the one living with her mother in Sunderland. The Durham Ann Henderson was born in 1788, which would have made her barely 18 at the birth of her 1st child, and 11 years younger than her husband.

EDIT: this being said... There seems to be an Ann Lidster who was born in Bishopwearmouth (next to Sunderland) in 1788... The Elizabeth Henderson I found died in November 1823, the one marrying Charles South was born in September 1823 when the other one was still alive, but she only got baptized in 1824. Maybe she was another daughter of my James and Ann, and they named her after her sister who died shortly after her birth?
Stuff to think about...

Hi,
What was the name of his wife?
Jen

Catherine Copley