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I think the point is that there are hundreds of us willing and wanting to help....

Indeed so.   My brief comment addressed the topic of the originator of this thread succinctly.  Looking in the electoral roll was not suggested by anyone else before me.   There were references to other long threads,  which I am not particularly interested in re-reading.  This question has been answered many times before,  but the original poster clearly did not look very far before they posted,  so I answered the question for them.

So is your actual relative the Gloucestershire hatter ?  Does the 1841 census say how old he was ?  Was he born in Gloucestershire ?

For the period around 1818,  the convict indent will often state the "native place" of the convict.  Well mine from that period do, anyway.

He may have gone to Australia.

We have a William George Bladon, who was married in 1882  in Sydney and died in 1925.   His father was also called William and the name of his mother was not recorded at the time of his death.

I don't know how old William d.1925 was,  but his wife Priscilla Curtis was born in 1854 and died in 1918.  So William was presumably born between about 1850 and 1860.

I've never personally come across this "foreign papers please copy" notation in an English newspaper,   it was quite common in Australia in those days.

I'd steer clear of using the word "proof" here.

I'm not doubting the opinions about the clothing,  but if you previously had good reason
to believe that this was the second husband,   but now it looks like the first husband,
well you would need to think carefully before you consider that as definitively "proved".