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John Brown, a wealthy leather pipe maker, married Martha and had children in London from at least 1779 (Mary 1779, John 1780, Elizabeth 1782, Thomas Leonard 1784, Jonathan 1787, Ann 1788; there may be more - there's no Martha for instance). I am trying to find his marriage.

The signatures attached to this post are known to be his (with the possible exception of ehe earliest one which was written on his apprenticeship papers when he was a child). Those attached to the second post are possibles, although none may be right.

Richard

FamilySearch states that Ancestry has the baptisms and burials up to 1836 but the years 1816-1828 appear to be missing (these years don't show up when you try to browse).

I am trying to find the children of George and Rebecca Jefferson. He died in 1829 and his daughter, Sarah, was baptised in 1830. They had at least one other son: John who, like his father, was a farrier/blacksmith and married in 1842. Censuses suggest he was born in Walham Green in 1822/3 shortly after his parents married in 1821.

I'm hoping to find some descendants but sadly neither Sarah or George had any children.

Richard

In 1841 Agnes Gardner, 9, is living with her father James, 55; mother Cathrain (nee Noble), 55; and sister Marion, 5 in Braehead, Carnwath. James and Catherine had married in Libberton in 1815 where she had been born, but I can find no children born between 1815 and Agnes in 1832.

Her sister, Marion, dies (unmarried) in childbirth in 1861.

Agnes herself is probably the 19 year old farm servant to the Smiths in 1851 and is certainly the informant on her mother's death certificate in 1856. I can't find her after that.

She isn't the Agnes Gardner who marries James Crawford in 1855 and then emigrates; and nor is she the Agnes Gardner, b Carnwath 1832, who is married to a Robert Gardner for many years (she was nee Gray).

I also can't find her mother in the 1851 census although she may well be the Catharine Gardner of unknown age living in Carnwath with her 'son' James Gardner, 7, b Walston, and described as a spinster. This James was actually the son of William and Elizabeth (nee Gray) Gardner who married in Biggar in 1843 and then disappear. William (20 in the 1841 census) may, of course, be Agnes' sister.

I am keen to find Agnes' death entry in an attempt to dis/prove that the James Gardner who married Margaret Lockie in 1802 is the same James who married Catherine Noble in 1815.

Richard

Samuel Wells, a tailor, was admitted to the Castle Street workhouse in Westminster on Sept 1841 when he was described as aged 84 from St Martins.

Can anyone see him in the 1841 census?

Richard

When Robert Inglis was interviewed by the mining commission just before he died in 1841 he said:

'I am the oldest collier on Sir John Hope's work... I was born 9th Sept. 1759 and worked at Pinkie Pit long before the colliers got their freedom; the first emancipation took place on the 3rd of July, 1775'

He seems likely to be the Robert Ingles, born on 9 Sep 1759, to James and Ann Ingles of Mortoun Colehouses, and baptised a few days later at the Presbyterian Church in Spittal just outside Berwick, as the dates and occupation match perfectly; and Robert's first son was called James.

My understanding as that, pre-1775, any children born in a mining community were tied to that particular mine and there were penalties for trying to leave, so how did Robert end up moving from Berwick to Liberton where he married and then worked for Sir John Hope? Were there links between the two places?

Or is this just a big co-incidence?

Richard