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Hi all,
Milliepede. Sorry for the confusion, as you can see the families together is tantalising. I'll go into depths with the name Josh you supplied.

Bevj. Again sorry for the confusion.

Osprey. Correct I have all these record details.

Hallmark. I have extracted all I can from those records & I will revisit the resources Board.

Majm. Thank you for your comments. I have searched UK records for the family coming back - I would imagine as James was a mariner he perhaps worked his passage to help fund them getting back ( so that's one trail I can follow ) and I will search the resources board.

I am now living in Portugal  The only window I have in perhaps making a connection with these two families is from the date they got back and the 1861 Census!! And that's all I've got before totally giving up. I cannot find James birth so cannot find his parents. Other folks who have followed James in their trees have totally gone down the wrong avenue as I did, as on paper there is a logical but false trail!! a trap.
On the other hand Joseph George seems to be a non-conformist so records are scarce. & I can't find his first wife!

I have visited most places in the UK personally to see if I could extract any more information but sadly nothing.
I've found long lost graves that we have tidied up and cleared away weeds. ( Just to underline I am not just sitting at home on the computer...

Thanks to you all, I didn't intend to get folks looking back over my old research request... but just that window of opportunity as mentioned.

Again many thanks to you all.  Ken
   

Hi, I am trying to find my family travelling back from Australia around 1850 - 60
There's plenty of information about people going to Australia but not the other way!!

Arthur Blake went to Adelaide Australia in 1849 and his future wife Sarah Agnes Gower went in 1850... I guess assisted, as a group of seamstresses.
They married in Adelaide and had a child Agnes Eliza Bradley in 1851. ( I have all the details.)
Sadly there are no family details on the marriage certificate & I am trying to find James father ( for over 25 years )
All three were back in the UK by 1863 as the child was christened in London.

The one little glimpse of light for me is when Agnes was christened, the following Children's father in the church book was Joseph Bradley and both families were living at the same address!!
This was Joseph's second marriage & I'm wondering if James was from the first marriage although I cannot find any earlier marriage!!

Sadly it's all tentative searches from now on.

Hope some kind soul can help in some way... to find them travelling back home.
Kind regards Ken Bradley.



 

Thank you all so much for all your renditions, such various approaches.

DrDude after your work I notice that the ol' boy looks like he could be holding the bowl of a pipe in his hand,  I've seen pipe smokers hold their pipe like this, including my brother!!?

Again my thanks to one & all.

Thank you Pat...good to see someone else's interpretation. 

What a difference colour makes, I love old black and white pictures, but this one looked so dire.
hence the morbid interpretation.

I know I have a photograph of my Grandfather as my mother used to get the album out when I was a little nipper... sadly I was too young to remember which one she was telling me about!! 
Perhaps I need the help of an Hypnotist to take me back in time!! 

Thank you very much for your explanation , It looks marvelous... Cheers Ken