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Hi Arachne,
I am new to this, and not finding it easy!
I initially wanted to find more about the Fearons.     I knew the story of Edward becoming a master mariner , marrying and the first shipwreck, and returning to England to make the journey again.   Settling at Motueka and having a family.    I have been several times to New Zealand, visited Motueka, its library and the graveyard, and the site of their house. 
 When last in New Zealand, and inWellington,  I wanted to visit the Turnbull Museum and see Edward Burrell 's diaries, but it was shut.   
 But then in Hackney archives I found more on Isaac and wanted to go further back.    I am afraid I do not know what he did, he states "stockbroker" and I looked him up in the stockbrokers archives, but could not find him listed, only recently coming across that he was a merchant as well.    But he was only 36 when he died.   Did his widow go back to her family then, John Hodgson was her father I think, and a John Hodgson, father of Elizabeth or brother (?) paid for Edward to go to school and brought the children up.   But she ended up being buried in Hackney .     Emma's daughter Emma tinniswood died of dementia in a home.      Maybe we can pool some of our information.    I do not know how to send photogaphs via Roots
   A rather disjointed reply to you but I had a slow start with it vanishing, and I did not want to lose it again.

Are you still looking for family history?    I was also descended from Hartley Packer Gisborne, though through his daughter, Julia, brother of your great, great grandfather.      My grandfather, a son of Julia, had some scrap books and photo books put together by his sister, but I am afraid it did not include much information except about a pearl ring, which she inherited from Bertha.     Which one of Hartley and Bertha's children were you descended from?