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Somerset / Re: AVERY's from YATTON
« on: Monday 06 October 14 14:41 BST (UK) »
Samuel George dropped the name Samuel when he left Somerset and went to London. He lived in Limehouse and Bethnal Green where records show he changed occupation a number of times. He was an "Officer in the Customs" in 1841 then "Railway Police 1851 and on a daughters marriage certificate "Gentleman Broker" . Nothing else can be found as yet. He can be found as an arresting officer in a number of cases on THE OLD BAILEY ONLINE as George Avery policeman. His son William was a Mariner and sailed ships to the West Indies, Jamaica and Barbados from Bristol and London. After his marriage ( to Sophia Powell) he left the sea and worked as a warehouse man in Hoxton. Sophia Williams wife was descended from a French Huguenot family.