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I am seeking any information about my GGGGrandfather who was the father of James Charles Gallaway (1809-1886), a prominent Congregationalist minister.  In a Congregationalist Yearbook in 1886, James Charles' father Samuel was described as follows: "His father, who came of a family of Norfork famers, held an important post under Government.  His mother (Deborah East) ...was the sister of the Rev. Timothy East of Birmingham." 
We have his will, but have been unable to find anything more about Samuel or is ancestors.

Anyone have any information?
Barry Edwards
Portland, Oregon, USA

I'm attempting to confirm a hypothesis that Edward Arlidge baptized at St Anne Parish, Limehouse 13 Apr 1845, son of Edward and Mary Anne (Davis) Arlidge emigrated to Brooklyn, New York after the death of his wife Lavinia (Gargrave) in 1881, married Elizabeth Brown and fathered my grandmother, Emily Gladys Arlidge.  I can find no record of Edward after 1881 in England.  On his marriage certificate to Lavinia he is listed as a "caulker", and then became a coffeehouse keeper following his father, who also had a profession as a ship caulker and then became a coffeehouse keeper.  My grandmother's birth certificate from NYC shows her parents as Edward Arlidge and Elizabeth Brown, and 1892 NYC census, after Edward apparently died, shows my grandmother's mother and 3 sisters as having been born in England.  However, based on an 1881 death of Lavinia, it is likely that Elizabeth Brown may have been previously married, had two children, then two more, one in England and my grandmother in NYC.  The oldest child appears in census variously as Edildra, Etheldra, Matilda, or Tilly, the second was Lillie, and Edward's children were Emma and my grandmother .  In various commericial directories in Brooklyn, NY in the 1880's an Edward Arlidge appears whose profession is caulker.  Edward had a daughter Alice Jane, born 1864 that also does not appear ater 1881.  Note she is not the Alice Jane Arlidge that married Robert Coad Barden--this AJ was born some 14 years earlier.  A ship record register of the "Grecian Monarch" arriving in NY from England lists a Mrs. E Arlidge and three children, Tilly, Lily, and infant--it appears that the ages of Tilly and Lily were reversed on the registry.
Any assistance greatly appreciated.

Per parish records, John Edwards from Avenbury married Susanna Hodges  from Much Cowarne in Mar 1761.  In Oct  1765, they baptized son William in Eye.  Following that, Susanna (1763) , John (1765), Elizabeth (1768), Thomas (1770), Nicholas (1772), Anne (1774), Joseph (1775), Henry (1778), Mry (1781) and Jame (1783) were also born in Eye. John the father was my 4th great grandfather.  Anyone have information that would take me to his ancestors or that of his wife Susannah?

I thought Ethel Hilda was a relative but she turns out not to be.  If any one wishes a scan of her birth certificate it's attached.  Daughter of Walter Bennett Roberts and Sarah Mercy (Look) Roberts, born in Wincanton Registration district 1878.

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