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I now have a full copy of "Turkey, Russia, England, and the Jews: A Sunday evening's lecture, delivered in the Baptist Chapel, Water Street, Rochdale, February 10th, 1878 by Alfred Pickles (1878)"  if anyone is interested. It is a very long lecture that I am glad I didn't have to sit through.

I have the following info from zfamily Search on the death and burial in India if my Great Grand Uncle Henry Moorsom Pickhills.

birth:   1841   
death:   08 Apr 1866   
burial:   09 Apr 1866   Calcutta,​ Bengal,​ India

He enlisted on HMS Hastings at Liverpool on 14 October 1857

I was hoping someone could tell me how to find out his cause of death. I live in Australia.

Lol. Poor Elizabeth, two arrests in Goolwa for both foul language in public (would love to know exactly what she said), and fir stealing some butter . She was actually staying with George Rickinson Swan (GRS from hereon in), and it wasn't a personality trait. She returned to England shortly after - to London, for some reason, and in early 1900s died at Tooting Bec Mental Asylum of "Senile Decay" (dementia), so would appear to have been happening for a while. Three of her and Rickinson's brood moved out here - GRS (my great great uncle), Frederick William (my great grandfather, also moved to Bourke and was also a Master on a steamer also doing the Darling and the Murray rivers runs), and Clara, who moved to Tasmania for some reason, married into a well-to-do family, had one daughter who married with no children. I am the last of the line, and due to many nasty events over the years got fed up with my family, changed my name and headed iff without them.  Henry Moorson Pickhills is the other interesting one. Joined the Admiralty at 14 and died in Bengal in his early 20s. Have all his induction papers which includes a description of him, and statutory declarations from Elizabeth and Rickinson allowing him to join. Fascinating stuff. Rickinson is the other family member who declared himself bankrupt. He was an articled clerk. Family seems to have moved around a lot (Clara died at Old Dolphin). I do have the church inscription. I had traced Clara's side back to Robin Hood's Bay/Fylingdales in late 1580s. Had it all entered up in family tree software on my iPad, upgraded to a new iPad and very stupidly deleted the family tree app from the old iPad before transferring all my info to the new one, so lost the whole file...weeks and weeks of work. I'm sure it is still there...just need to find out how to retrieve it. Have started doing trees on both Ancestry, and Genes Reunited but because it us so long and complex, and redoing data you have already done on computer I haven't really had the enthusiasm to do it all online. I also recently had more eye surgery, and with having to adjust to that, and white cane training and all that I have dropped the ball for quite some time. Just getting back into it now. I trying to trace sll lines of the family...a big job...so all info is embraced lol. Like you, I love the hunt, and find the remoter branches of the family fascinating. Blimey, we are all connected to so many families

Hi guys. i haven't been able to work that one out myself, despite zooming in as much as I can.

Keless, if you need any info let me know...I have quite a bit on him now. I have a blog where I am (slowly, as time permits) putting up family stories as they come to light - I am a freelance writer, so it is yet another area for writing. The blog is at http://timalderman.wordpress.com and there is a biography of the Rev Pickles there, along with the tragic story if my brothers short life. Other stories coming. As a result of the blog, I had. Fifth cousin contact me, who has info I must get iff her.  We are probably very distantly related, keyless as the family thins out at that stage. My distant cousin and myself had Clara and Joseph Pickhills as a common ancestor. She was from the Pickles line, I from the Pickhills.  I have copies of the Revs sermon,  many newspaper snippets etc after retiring as a pastor, he took up selling gloves and hosiery.

Thank you all. I obtained the Rootsweb info yesterday, including a copy of the Church Book, which was interesting reading. Thanks you PM for the item in the Edinburgh Gazette - he's not the first member of the family to have gone bankrupt. His uncle also did. Gill, i would love a copy of the book - though I'll have to brush up on my Lancaster accent LOL. getting any family photo's (I have very few) is very exciting. I will contact you with my email address. I still have to do further research to find out where he was after 1891, as he is not in the next census at the towcester address. The Baptist Union have him living at Wealdstone in Middlesex in 1920, which is the year he died. I have yet to chase his children. This is the branch of the family that for some unknown reason opted for the "Pickles" spelling of the family name, instead of "Pickhills", which his Uncle used (and who I'm descended from), which is why it hasn't been researched earlier. Alfred's aunt Priscilla (who he lived with for a while in Rochdale) used both Pickhills and Pickles, so it get's confusing.