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Thank you for the information about Sarah LONG in America with her daughter - I hadn't picked that up.
I have a copy of a transcription of the baptisms of the Argyle Chapel but can't find Matthew LONG in it although his sister Hester was christened there in 1811 - I would agree that it is possible that he was christened in Bristol which has been suggested. I think his other siblings James and Elizabeth were baptised in the Penn Street Calvinistic Chapel in Bristol not in the Argyle Chapel in Bath (unless these chapels were in the same circuit and connected in some way). He's proving quite a mystery - thanks for all your help.
In the Bath Chronicle of 5th Jan 1837 this announcement was under deaths
"Jan. 1, at her residence, No. 9, Upper Camden place, Anne Eliza, second daughter of Mr. Matthew Long." perhaps I'm reading too much into the wording but why put "at her residence" and no mention of her mother? She was only 5 years old.
Surnames in Somerset - BENNETT, COLES, ELLY, GARLAND, GUPPY, HASE, KERTON, LANGTREE, MARSHALL, MILLARD, NICHOLLS, PUDDY, ROGERS, SAUNDERS, SPERRING, STOKES, SYMMONS, TAYLOR, WHITTING, WOODBURN
Surnames in Gloucestershire - BURCHELL, HILL, LONG, WATTS, PINNOCK, RUDDER, SHORT,
Surnames in Wiltshire - DEW, JONES,