Thank you so much, Rena, for all your work on this.
Yes I had totally misunderstood you but I do appreciate that there are quite a few names in that Turkey Red document, and you have kindly listed them for me.
I put 'my' man's name in the very first post on this thread: he was Joseph LAYCOCK. Not my ancestor, just a distant collateral of a family that is of vague interest. His wife was an ENTWISTLE.
His children all seem to have worked and died in the Manchester area, and yes most of the sons did rather well for themselves in the Manchester textile business.
I hadn't realised that there were such very tight links and integration between the Scottish textile centres and Manchester, although I knew that the skilled printers and other technicians moved around a lot between the various UK textile centres - eg the 1851/61 Censuses for Bonhill show plenty of evidence of this for dyers and engravers.
I don't know a lot more about him than that he was born c1800, married 1822, and had a lot of children mainly born to the west of Bolton Lancs, and in 1851 was a grocer in Radcliffe - and died on a known date in 1854, with a will dated in Radcliffe in mid-1851, proved in England 1854.
So, just to be tidy, I checked for a death reg in E&W.
Surprise - no death reg. Which naturally whetted my appetite!
So started chasing for him, and a kind forum member found me a newspaper listing of his death in Alexandria. Quite a shock.
Thanks for your keen support with my search for a reason why he was in Leven in July 1854.
Harriet