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Well spotted I never found that one!
It all seems to be tying in and that gives us 2 more generations further back plus all the siblings of the 2nd Anthony and our William - I think when I did my original trawl of the IGI I had quite a few families who will turn out to be the siblings.
Thank goodness for families who stayed in 1 place!!!
I am on the track of the earliest anthony now as I found quite a lot of Jameses going back further so it would be nice to track another generation! Also will look at wives of the 2 Anthony's - I have not really had any luck with Elizabeth Portlock
regards
Debbie - deborahdwyer60@hotmail.com

  brilliant news that will really be helpful
I will look up if I have anything from the batch numbers on Anthony James and let you know
If it turns out to be Anna Maria married to David Dodgson
then she did very well for herself indeed as he later became General Sir David Scott Dodgson. I have loads on him and children and grandchildren but just need the confirmation that it was Anna Maria James he married in 1851 Bengal according to IGI unfortunately the marriage record and the childrens birth records also in India do not record her maiden name
I am hoping to contact someone via the Dodgson family website to confirm if it is in fact the correct Anna Maria
will let you know
Debbie

I just rooted out the copies of the marriage certs of Edwin and David and lo and behold there is an Emma James as a witness which would confirm the Sarah Simmonds theory as her eldest james child was emma! hoorah!

Just looked up the 1861 census as I hadn't twigged the identity of Esther Robinson -  doh!
the Robinsons were at 118 Blind lane and Sarah James widow and son John were at 117!

Hi there,
I am also researching the James family for my husband David Dwyer
I have managed to find out a few things which may help
firstly I looked up all children of William and Elizabeth using the IGI and batch numbers ( a great trick I learned recently) This recorded Anna Maria 1826, Esther 1829,George 1830,Henry 1833,Edwin 1835,David 1838,Mary ann 1841 the last child recorded was Charles baptised in 1843 who also died 27.12. 1843.
Then I looked up batch numbers of marriages in Charlton Kings and as well as the marriage of William and Elizabeth Portlock in 1821 found a record of a marriage between a William James and Sarah Simmonds on 6th April 1846 after lots of checking and cross referencing to match up the families I found via the batch numbers I came to the conclusion that this was our William remarrying I have the reference to send for the certificate if you want to check it out but the reason i think it's right is that for some reason there is no William in the 1851 census but our David and sister Mary Ann can be found living with a woman called Sarah James who has 2 more children Emma born 1846 and John born 1849  Sarah is not listed as a widow but as married - I tracked her further on via the census and William doesn't reappear and by 1861 she is classed as widowed so I can only guess that William died some time after the conception of John in 1848/9 and definitely before 1861.
I looked up Sarah Smmonds via her own birth details and her son Thomas Simmonds who was also living with her in 1851 - I think I found them in 1841 and If i'm right she was previously married to a Matthew Simmonds with 7 children Ann, Samuel,Matthew,Thomas,Elizabeth,Caroline and Keziah
I checked them out in 1851 whilst she was in Charlton Kings and they (except for thomas)were living with grandparents Thomas and Ann Butler in Cheltenham and neither parent was there so I'm surmising that this was her family that her maiden name was Sarah Butler!!!!!!!!
By looking up the batch numbers i have worked out a couple of the marriages of the children too
I hope this helps - i'm guessing that you might be a relative that my husband has been corresponding with ref the family tree!
Please get in touch I would love to hear what you think of my theories!
regards Debbie