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Thank you, Malcolm!  Even Google didn't get me that one.  Not much work going to get done this afternoon ...
Alison

Josiah JOHNSON married Maria Poole at Holy Trinity, Coventry in February 1847.  I am hoping that this is the Maria who, having been widowed, would later marry John Horlock and enter, variously, POOLE and JOHNSON as her previous surnames on the birth certificates of their children, one of whom was my g.g.grandfather.  Maria would have been about 30 at the time of the 1851 census.  If someone can trace Josiah and Maria in Warwickshire and finds she was born in Somerset they will begin to fill a 20-year gap for me!  Many, huge thanks - Alison Horlock

Dear Geoff - that was astonishingly kind of you!  My g.g.grandad is proving so elusive I can only think the enumerator skipped a line, or something of the kind. I came across an article yesterday which suggested that a record of the banns would have been sent to the groom's home parish (as they usually wed in the bride's parish) so that might be a way of tracing John in the gap between the 1841 and 1861 censuses.  Thanks so much for your help; I really appreciate it.  All the best - Alison

Hi Liz - Thanks so much for looking.  You're right, the 52 year old John was my elusive John's father, and Henry was his younger brother.  I really don't know if my bloke was still in Gloucestershire but was mis-transcribed, or if he'd gone off to sow his wild oats elsewhere.  Probably the latter, but where ..?  I'll keep looking.  Thanks once again! - Alison

My very first post!  Here goes -

I am seeking the whereabouts of John HORLOCK or HARLOCK in 1851.  I have him in Horsley, Glos in 1841 aged 17, (so b. 1824) a wool-worker.  Next in 1861 in Islington, Middx, aged 34, (so b. 1827) a marble mason.  In 1881 he's still in Islington but says he's 59, so born 1822.  Not good at maths, but always knows he was born in Gloucestershire.  In 1861 was was with wife Mary, nee JOHNSON, (from the birth cert of son Tom Sansom HORLOCK).  Mary was born in Somerset.  By 1872 he's living with Mary POOLE (from the birth cert of son William).  This Mary was also born in Somerset.  I cannot find either of the two marriages, nor a death of the first Mary, nor the birth of a first son names John after his father.  The two Marys could be one woman using both her maiden name and prior married name.  Mary is consistently ten years younger than John on census entries I have found.  John and Mary Johnson are my g-g-grandparents, I've been looking for their whereabouts between 1841 and 1861 for eleven years!  Any help would be so welcome.  Not that I'm desperate, or anything.  In case you're interested, John died as a result of falling down the stairs and fracturing his skull.  Fortunately, he was pissed at the time.  Thanks for reading - Alison