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Hi All,
I am searching for the parents of the Rev Thomas Moss who wrote the Beggars Petition.  I am related through his sister Katherine who married Joseph Taylor.  According to the Cambridge University records, Thomas' father is Francis Moss, a chandler at Wolverhampton.  This is where I get stuck.  There is no record of Thomas or Katherine births.  There is no will in the NAA website for Francis Moss who possibly died in 1764.  Thomas will was very newsworthy and mentions a marriage settlement document for his sister's marriage to Joseph Taylor in 1767 in Shropshire.
I would like help with 1. the baptisms of Rev Thomas Moss and sister Katherine; 2. Francis Moss marriage; 3. Where I can find Francis Moss will or other information about him ? and 4. Where I can find the marriage settlement document for Katherine?
Your assistance will be greatly appreciated as I live in Australia.
Thank you in advance
Kris

Merry Christmas to all the lovely Rootschat helpers.

I am trying to find evidence of the origins of the Birds family at Bakewell Derbyshire.  The first Birds that I have from a researcher is William Birds who died around 1747/1748 and his wife Mary (possibly Cartledge) who died around 1746/1747.  They had a son Thomas born 22 Mar 1713 who married Mary Gilbert born 30 Apr 1726.  Their son David Birds born 8 Mar 1758 married(no record)  Catharine Moss (not sure of surname) and went to live in Shropshire.  I am descended from this line. 

I have tried everything to find BDMs to confirm some of the earlier family records and to go back further.  After 1792 I have a pretty good picture of the family in Shropshire and from newspaper articles and census records I have found that these people were wealthy.  2 went to Cambridge in the early 1800s and 2 went to Oxford in the later 1800s and one youngster was in the East India Company as a lieutenant (died in India at 20).  Also the amounts in the wills were in excess of £10,000.

One son of Thomas Birds and Mary Gilbert, Thomas Birds born 1752 lived at Eyam and had a son Thomas who died in 1829 at Eyam leaving a large collection of fossils that were gathered by him and his predecessors from the lead mines and from Ireland.

So you can see why I am curious and I have not found any directories to locate where they lived in Eyam or Bakewell. 

Any advice or assistance will be greatly appreciated.

Yours gratefully
Kris Wood

I would be grateful if someone could look up the 1841 census records for Icklesham and Udimore for the surname Hockham.  It was changed to Hockam in Australia.  I cannot find the origins of my gt gt grandfather Thomas Hockam who was possibly from either of these villages.  Although he arrived in Sydney in 1839 there may have been some of his relatives still living in the area.  There is nothing in the IGI for his birth around 1809 and his parents were supposedly William and Elizabeth.
Thank you in advance for your assistance
Wallfamily.

I would be grateful if someone could look up the 1841 census for Edinburgh, if there is one, for David Pollock b unknown, his wife Elizabeth b 1797 Lasswade, children Mary b 1826, Janet b 1828, David b 1830 and Thomas b 1835 all Edinburgh.  Elizabeth and children were all living at 62 Rose St, New Town, Edinburgh in the 1851 census.  David may have died before then.  Mary, Janet and David migrated to Australia in 1854.
Thank you
Kris   

In February Peter Bennett looked up the 1861 census for William J Wall at Marine Terrace, Liscard for his birthplace.  I would be grateful if I could have the full details of the census as I would like to know if John Birds Wall was living there at the time before he came to Australia.  He married in Victoria in 1862 and I cant pinpoint which ship he arrived on.  It might help to know if he was still in Cheshire in 1862.
Thanks muchly
Kris