Hello,
Could someone be a sweetie and give me the details of this fellow?
His name is Thomas Bensley, or Bensly. He is a shoe maker from South Walsham, born in the 1770s. As a point of interest, you'll find him in the baptismal registers of one of the Walsham churches as Benslin. And if I traced his family correctly, his father is a Bensling! He has been a most challenging one to trace. There were quite a few Thomas Bensleys born in the mid seventeenth century.
I'm interested in with where, and with whom he is living. That should nail it down for me. I didn't realise he was still alive by this point until a little while ago.
An 1841 look up would be nice, but not essential.
Many thanks,
Michael