I wonder if anybody can help find any other information about William and James Guest or Guess who I believe were baptised in Bedford the sons of William and Susannah Guest but both moved to Hastings in Sussex.
I have no idea why the brothers who were both shoemakers moved from Bedford to the Hastings area?
I have not found marriages for either William Snr. to Susannah about 1770 or William Jnr to Mary or James Guest to Hannah about 1802.
In 1851 William Guest a Boot and Shoemaker born 1773 Bedfordshire is living by 12 Bourne Str Hastings All Saints. William and Mary were in Bourne St in 1841
He may have been William GUEST buried 5 Dec 1856 aged 83 [born 1773] of Union Workhouse, St Helen, Ore, Sussex
Perhaps his wife was Mary GUEST buried 16 Mar 1849 aged 71 [born 1778] at St Clements, Hastings, Sussex
I have not found a marriage or children for William and Mary.
James Guest was baptised Bedford St Paul in 1779 and Hannah born in Beds had three children in Northampton 1803 to 1812.
James and Hannah had a daughter Rebecca Guest bapt 4 June 1817 d of James a Shoemaker and Hannah at All Saints Hastings Sussex.
James left Sussex in 1819 there is a Removal order from Hastings All Saints and Settlement examination dated 2 Feb 1819 for James Guess a cordwainer, his wife Hannah and children William (16) (born 1803), Lucy (13) 1806, James (10) (born 1809) John (7) (born 1812) and Rebecca (1) 9 months) (born May 1817) to St Paul Bedford, Bedfordshire
James and Hannah were in Bedford by 1828 when Hannah Guess wife of James gave evidence for the attempted murder of Elizabeth Catlin by her husband and both were still in Bedford in 1841 and 1851 where they died.
In 1832 and 1833 James and William Guess [his son] of White Horse Street Bedford St Paul were Inhabitant Householder and were both also voters in 1841.
