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Thanks for your reply. Seems not to be any connection between the two families.
My Divorty ancestors were born and bred in Aberdeenshire c1792 and earlier.
Good luck with your research
Chris

Hello Jeepers,  Robert Owen Hampson has ample followers and to their credit there is much in print about his life, some conjecture, some in fact by DNA.  Robert is buried with his first wife Hannah Whitbread; along with son, William, and a Jane (1889) who died at 20 months.  He is in Runcorn Town Cemetery.  No headstone found. (2010)   Plot 11  Grave 766.  Which of his wives or mistress are you from? 

Good Luck  Frank Ray.

Richard Hampson 1768-1926 and wife Mary Roylance family memorial.  All Saints Church, Runcorn.  Other names are Sarah Hampson – died 27.Nov.1827 age 22.

 Mary Hampson -  can’t read any of her details but it could be Mary (Roylance) Hampson as I can read ‘wife’ aged 55  (d/o the above.)
 
Sarah Hampson – died 27.11.1827 age 22.   This would be Sarah born 1805, daughter of Richard and Mary (Roylance) Hampson.
 
John – the only things I can read there is ‘son of’.
 
Mary – This would be Mary Ann Hampson born 1803 as it shows ‘daughter’ and her age at death 80 years.
 
Kitty – This would be the wife of John born 1813 as it shows her year of death as 1885, age 66,


TRANSPORT IN THE MANCHESTER AREA AND BEYOND IN 1820.

Two elegant passage -boats - Richard Hampson & James Parkinson, Masters, for passengers and their luggage only, go alternatively form Manchester to Runcorn, in Cheshire, one of which leaves Castle-Quay, Manchester every morning, at eight o'clock:  Passes Altrincham at 10 o'clock, London-Ridge, near Warrington, at one: (where coaches meet it to convey passengers to Warrington and Liverpool).  Passes Preston Book, near Frodsham, at three, (where a stage-coach meets it to convey passengers to Chester) and arrive (Runcorn) at five in the evening.

The above Richard fits in well who married Mary Roylance  He was born in 1768 and would have been 52 in 1820.  He died in 1826 aged 58

OKELL being a local surname, is there any explanation, if at all, of who this past Okell really was?  Thank you.

Daisy,
Thank you for the net links.  Very useful and engaging. The following was written by his father    Richard Owen b1754- on the question of his son James Hawkins Owen.


'April 22, 1827. — My eldest boy, James
Hawkins Owen, died at Demerara of yellow
fever, and was buried there.'

Buried on Demerara is new to me - memorial/record suggest James is with his parents on Isle of Bartholomew 

James did not marry.  The Catherine death/burial was his mother and reportedly died 24 Nov 1838 West Indies.  You have raised a Catherine Owen death/burial Dec Qtr. 1838 Lancaster  21/291 exactly the same period and year - only location being in question.  This search is far from over and I am indebted to the kindness of those who give of their time to help.    Frank.