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I am trying to find more information about my 4G grandfather, William Adamson, who was born late 1738/early 1739 in Clarilaw, baptised in Bowden, to George Adamson and Janet Simpson. He and his younger brother, James (b1745, baptised Lilliesleaf), both settled in London (William by the 1760s) owning property in Clare market, Covent Garden. William was a tailor. They clearly had some money (both left wills/property) and aside from their baptisms in Scotland's people, I haven't a clue about why they would have moved south. William was a non-conformist in London.

One train of thought I am following is that they were associated in some way with local landowners/gentry and made the move because of this - does anyone know who the likely families of wealth in the 1740s/50s/60s would have been?

Carole

Can anyone tell me the physical location of this school in the 1820s?

Thanks

Carole

I am trying to work out why a particular family of mine had a couple marrying in Manchester in 1799, and had a child in each of Falmouth in 1806 and Battle in 1811 before settling in Wiltshire by the mid 1820s.

One thought I had was that one son was a cordwainer/boot and shoe maker (the other a carpenter) - is there any itinerant tradition here?

Can anyone tell me if there are surviving registers of births for Acton?

Specifically I am seeking a birth in 1819, of a Mary Nelhams - I have her father's name (James) on her marriage certificate, but no mother, of course. The IGI doesn't have any birth/baptism records.

Carole