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https://www.academia.edu/2549870/In_the_vaults_beneath._Archaeological_recording_at_St_Georges_Church_Bloomsbury

This contains a wealth of detail, recorded during the vault clearance in 2009, on many of the people who were buried here, with names, inscriptions and even coffin plates. Burials date from 1804. You need an academia.edu account to read it, but it's free to anyone, not just people at academic institutions.

How would one go about finding a will for someone who died in Hull in 1722? I'm fairly sure he must have had one, he was Mayor at one point.
(NB: I can't get to Yorkshire)

Many thanks!

...which is driving me nuts.
It concerns Lydia Ann Huxtable, born apparently in Middlesex between 1841-1845 (censuses say Kensington, Clerkenwell and Islington) but not apparently registered ten years either side of 1840 anywhere in the country. She shows up in the 1871 census as a stillroom maid in a club in Broad St, aged 27, but she's nowhere to be found in 1851 or 1861. She married in 1875 (age given as 30) and gave her father's name as William Huxtable, publican. She's in 1881, 91 & 01 under her married name - all giving date of birth as 1843 - and died in 1905 in Islington, having had one son, named after his father - no clues there. I am beginning to think she sprang into existence fully formed in 1871! - as I can find absolutely zilch on her before that.

I have systematically checked and tracked every Lydia Huxtable registered across the country, and a few unregistered ones who show up in 1841 & 1851, and they're demonstrably not her. I've tried umpteen variations on Lydia, & Hextable and Huckstable and H*le; no joy. I've tried pulling up all female Huxtable marriages between 1840 & 1861 in London & Mdx to see if any of them were widows, who might have remarried and resulted in a different name for Lydia in the censuses - none of them were (although there are a few without full data on ancestry).  If her name was an alias, it seems an odd one to choose.

I need some fresh eyes on the problem - can anyone think of anything else to try? Another angle of attack? Or is this definitely a dead end and should I stop bashing my head against it?

(NB: I have all the data on her after 1871. Only interested in finding any information before that.)

In the unlikely chance that anyone has access to this book:

Eighteenth-Century Medics (subscriptions, licences, apprenticeships)
Newcastle-upon-Tyne: PHIBB, second edition, 1988
Authors: P. J. & R. V. Wallis (with J. G. L. Burnby & T. D. Whittet).
ISBN 1-871768-00-4

I would very much appreciate a lookup for an Edward Field. I don't have a DoB for him, but he was definitely practising as a surgeon apothecary in Hertford in 1796.

Many thanks!