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Thanks for your help
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Emma

Oh ! I read it as Thomas Taylor and Margaret Hall ! i see what you mean !
I thought the exclaimation mark was for 2 surnames.... i didn't think of it being the occupation.... :-)  i have found a family record on ancestry.co.uk for Margaret Hall born 1797 St Oswald Durham to Thomas Hall and Margaret Jopling, so it may well be them.
Thanks so much Gnu

Hello,
in my long post on maonday, i did write that i had been given all the info for my tree from a departed elderly lady who had been 100 % correct in her findiings so far, before internet days, the last entries she wrote were my 3 x great grandparents were  Margaret Hall born Brancepeth Co Durham and William Garrett born 1791 Norwich Norfolk. As i found all was correct with all she had found, and found that William was married to Margaret from Brancepeth Co.Durham ( as confirmed in the  the 1851 census) i thought it was the obvious place to start that she was called Hall ! As i have no other info on her and there is a Hall Family presence in Brancepeth, and my dearly departed relative hadn;t been wrong so far !

Thanks for all this Patrish and Gnu...

I got al ist of names passed from a 2nd party from a very elderly lady who had done the family tree before internet days ! everything she wrote has proved 100 % correct throught the records i have found, she had a very basic list of names , birth years and towns of origins written on a piece of paper, and bless her  it is all right ,i basically i  come from a line of 3 Alfred Garretts and then the earliest found Garrett was William born in Norwich , who married Margaret Hall from Brancepeth Co. Durham, i had never even heard of this place, but have since found it  ! and also that ther is a Hall Family pressense in the area ( thanks for that FreeGen tip, it is bouncing me off, but i'll keep trying )
 William is easier to track as he is at the Carey Street address for at least 2 decades, and then moves over to Camberwell with his son, my great x 2 grandfather Alfred Garrett. After nearly 2 years of looking i found last week the couple recorded as Darrett !  William of Norwich the Bootmaker and Margeret of Brancepeth ..so bingo, and they were in excactly the area they should be . I was working there last week and went to Carey Street , but 34 is no more !
They had at least 4 children
Henry born 1819
Frederick    1822
Caroline Margaret 1824
Alfred   1828
All born Holborn (sometimes Bloomsbury?St Clement Danes -all virtually the same place)
As Henry comes along when Margaret is around 23 years old, i had this pegged down as a first marriage , although you can't be sure .... yes, it seems likely the marriage was in London, as this seems the only common theme , i can't find any other Hall from Brancepeth migrating down to London in the census, Maybe Margaret came alone to go into service or  a job like that.
Cannot find any birth records for these children, but on marriage records father William is recorded, not the mothers details.
I am wondering if Caroline is a famiy name as Margret is buried under Margaret Caroline , her daughter is Caroline Margaret, and the Carolien name is passed on a few times more... maybe this can help with the Brancepeth crowd ??
Thanks for all this ! Who are you Miss Margaret ??

Hello,
Yes, i knew she was married to William Garrett, and i can find them only once on the census , misrecorded as William and Margaret Darrett, him of Nowrich and her of Brancepeth, that is all i know, i am trying to find sbling and parents names now.
thanks
Emma