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I've researched all of my Jones family back to Edward Jones, miner, of Holywell, N. Wales, (b.1800), married Margaret Williams (1797) also of Holywell. Son Robert Jones (b.1821) of Holywell, married
Emma Williams (b.1826) of Welshpool, Montgomeryshire, in 1847 at Liverpool.
Robert's family;
Elizabeth, b. 1848 at Walsall
May Ann, b. 1850 at Bilston
Alfred, b. 1853 at Wolverhampton
Thomas, b. 1861 at Wolverhampton (my grandfather)
The family lived at Blakenhall.

Alfred followed his father Robert and became a Bricklayer along with another worker and lived at Stephen's Gate, Wolverhampton, with a family of 7;
Albert Edward (1877)
Clara (1898)
Florence Eliz. (1888)
Gertrude (1895)
Joseph (1898)
Thomas (1882)
William (1878)


Thomas emigrated to Australia in 1884, followed by father Robert in 1885.

I came across 'Alfred Edwin' somewhere on Ancestry (?), and both the given names fitted as in my previous post, as opposed to Albert Edward, ..the true documented son of Alfred Jones snr.
I wondered if 'Alfred Edwin' was in fact illegitimate, born the year before Alfred Jones and Florence Stone married, ..and kept out of documentation, because of social stigma, etc. ..Why were these 2 given second names and not other children of the family, excepting for Florence Elizabeth ??

I guess if nothing further turns up then I have to concede to a wild goose chase, ..but that is probably what geanolgy can become quite often.
There are 50,183 results for Alfred Jones in the 1881 census .. 

Oh, just this; ..

Thank you, Debbie
October 31, 1849, Parish Church of St. John, Hampstead, vol.3, p.178
I have the cert. image, no.418, p.209, Occupation: labourer.
Can you find any reference to William Musson being a Baker ? Also
there is a strong suspicion that he may have married previously, to an Eve _ _?
I agree about the baptism later in life, it is unusual though. I can't explain why he wasnt given as deceased in 1862 and 1869. I think there is something shady going on here.
Apparently son Howard Whiteman (Wightman) Musson was married to a Blanche Pooke in England on 10 Dec. 1873 prior to his Australian marriage to my Grandmother, Emily Jane Ord in 1907. - Whether this was bigamous or not is unclear at this time, but not impossible, given that Howard was a sailor, was supposed to have been shipwrecked, joined a Australian Masonic Lodge in1892, yet was not found on the Aus. Electoral Rolls until 1903. Nothing about this previous marriage is known by our family.

Hi Kay,
Yep, I think I did post somewhere about French Canada a while back, - it was a bit of a stab in the dark, dont know why I said that. I may have assumed that because the name Musson has French connotations, or it was something I heard in the past, I dont know.
He was on the English census of 1851, was  home at Hampstead for the birth of son Poynton Musson on Oct. 31 1856 (again I would asume this), but then dissappears. he is not on the 1861 British census. I wonder if there would be a newspaper report about the death somewhere??