Redrogers - No problem, the Stantons like many families at the time seemed to give their children the same names as their brothers and sisters used for their children too, I often wonder if they actually knew who their own children were.
Chipladdie - I think we have now come full circle and as GeoffE suggested originally the Edward Stanton who married Susannah was the one christened in 1784. Just out of interest that makes you and Redroger my 1st cousins 5 times removed.
So it seems that I did find the right family on the 1841 census, Edward Stanton aged 55 and Susannah Stanton aged 40, and 3 children, Joseph aged 15, Henry and Jane aged 5. (Ages were rounded up or down to multiples of 5 on the 1841 census as you probably already know). I guess John and Edward Jnr and Lucy would have been working away at the ages of 15 and 22 and 19 respectively - or the older two could even have been married.
Do you know where Edward, Susannah and any family still at home were in 1851?
The info I have missing on the Stantons relate to John and Edward Stanton's grandparents. (I have their parents as Edward Stanton and Mary Baxter - do you agree?). All I can find out at the moment is that their grandfather was called John baptised in 1708 in Morton by Bourne and his grandmother was called Anne. Do you have any info on those two people? Then I think John Stanton (1708)'s father was called Ralph. Any help gratefully received, but not urgent, as I'm logging off for tonight.
Lizzie
