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Many thanks, Peter!

This is super - I had a nasty feeling that Joseph might have been from out of county which would have made matters more difficult and at least I now have a rough idea of date of birth and, in particular, the possibility of a marriage for him between 1838 and 1841 which might show up on the GRO registers - I had found the burial reference for Sarah and thought it might be mine but I never thought of a second marriage (assuming Elizabeth IS his wife!).

Thanks again
Sheila

Celia P.S let me know if you want these or not, so i don't do the  unnecessary :)or if you just want the deaths
 
Hi Celia,

Sorry - I've been offline for a couple of days!  Yes, I would very much like the Colquitt records you found, especially the deaths!

Many thanks for all your help!

Sheila

Thanks Debbie and Jan for the lookups.  I was hoping, in some ways, that this would rule Feydo out as being my Theodore Lawley (the one in the 1861 & 1871 censuses that I do already have - thanks all the same, Jan), but the age and place of birth (Germany) are pretty much correct, which leaves me stuck. 

There are 6(!) German-born clock/watchmaker LAWLEYs in England in the 1861 census, 4 of whom have distinct ties to Bristol/Bath/Taunton.  The other two - Bernard and Theodore are in London.  Theodore is in a Manchester trade directory under the heading of Clock Makers - German and Dutch in 1828/9 (and his wife was born in Manchester), he christened two daughters in Carlise in the 1830s and a son in Newington, London in 1838.  In the 1861 census, there is another son born in Southwark c 1843.  This makes me think that Feydo in Bath in 1841 and Theodore in London in 1838 and 1843 are not the same person , but Joseph Lawley in Bath had a son christened Joseph Thedore Jerome Lawley in1834 so I expect he was named for Feydo.  Would love to be able to tie them all together!

Thanks again
Sheila

Thanks Debbie!  Just my luck - I was hoping for a clue as to where her husband John was from originally.  Still, all useful information and much appreciated.

Sheila

This was in response to a lookup Ken did for me.  The chap concerned appears on BMD certificates and other censuses as cordwainer or boot and shoe maker, so I presume in this instance (1841), it stood for bootmaker.

Sheila