« Reply #6 on: Wednesday 31 January 07 15:28 GMT (UK) »
Oooo... now it could well be!
Thanks very much for this Jim... Rootschatters are wonderful at looking up things above and beyond the original request!
Luckily I have some early Parish Registers for Alton, so I might be able to check this couple out.
I can't figure why George isn't showing up on the 1861. He's on the 1881 in Alton aged 62 and a widower but he's giving his birthplace as Cheadle, which is a bit at odds with him giving Alton in 1851.
Maybe he's disappeared down the black hole along with all those other missing ancestors of mine!
Many thanks again for your helpful lookup

kind regards
- Aitch
RATCLIFFE, BARLOW, BERESFORD, BLOOR, BYATT, DAKIN, KENT, LEES, MORTON, NORCLIFFE, OAKS, OSBORNE, PARKS, RICHARDSON, ROBINSON, SORTON, WETTON, WARRINGTON, WATTS, WOOD, WOLVERSCROFT (all from the Staffordshire Moorlands) - and specific interest in anyone who at any time lived in or around the village of ALTON