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 I really am not sure of the Stackhouse connection to my own family.

Christina and William Stackhouse,  whose mother it appears my relative ancestor Isaiah Whitehouse
lived with,  were grandchildren of Samuel Lees and Mary.
 Mary was originally married to Joseph Stackhouse before  marrying Samuel Lees.
In 1875 Jane Phillips married their son Josseph Stackhouse.
At some point they separated, and Jane moved in with my ancestral relative Isaiah.
There were two children, William, who went to live with Mary Leas, and his uncles and aunts;
and Christina, who went to live with Isaiah,  and then jane disappears out of Isaiah's life, too.

I hope that makes sense, I've tried to untangle the knots as best as I can.


I mention all this, to show you where  my family link is. Would that be, by the sound of it, the same family that you are descended from, David?

Terry
 

  thanks Morgan, but John was a builder or surveyor by trade,

I think we aren't looking at a prisoner  at this date, by what others are telling me.
In the 1891 census he is a builder's manager in Alverstoke Hants.
He was born c 1838 in Bishop's Tawton in Devon.

Terry

 Hello,
does anyone know where the debtor's prison would have been for a bankrupt in Shrewsbury in 1881, so I could see if a missing ancestor, John Rawle Robins was actually in this institution in 1881, as he is absent from the census.

I know that he was pronounced bankrupt in June 1880, and from this and a notice also in December 1880, in the London Gazette, was being proceeded against in Shrewsbury.

If I had an idea where it was e.g. piece number, I could find it more easily say on Ancestry.

Terry

 Family search has the following

Charles Fox of Surrey, died 1823

spouse Frances Rich b 31 jan 1787 Bermomndsey; died 28 Jan 1846
married 1809 to Charles Fox.

terry