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Regarding Edward Armistead, Wilson's brother, his 1st wife was Elizabeth Sykes but she died (I believe in childbirth with Hannah Sophia) 20 Jan 1847.  On 14 Dec 1847 in Pontefract he married Sarah Anne Webster, younger sister of my gt-gt-grandfather Robert Holmes Webster.  They had 11 children, but 2 daughters called Fanny both died young, one in infancy, the other in childhood.  William apparently died at sea (he was a 2nd officer) aged c22.  One daughter married a Leeds artist Francis Sternberg, but he left her for Harriet Louise, the daughter of her sister !  Harriet's older brother William Armistead Sutcliffe, according to one of my contacts, married Mary Patchett twice - in 1903 he was in the army and failed to get his commanding officer's permission to wed, so married her again in 1905.  I wonder if the shame of it (!) was what caused him to change his name to Burton and flee to NZ ??

See PhpGedView for more details on the Armisteads...

Ian W