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Hi there!  Not sure if this is of any help, but my Gt-Gt-Gt-Gt-Grandfather is most probably the Gayton Mansfield of the Old Bailey article.  His daughter Hannah (my Gt-Gt-Gt-Grandmother) was born in 1806 and states Edmonton as her place of birth in the 1871 England Census.  Hannah's mother/Gayton's wife was also named Hannah, but I cannot as yet trace her further back than the christenings of her daughters Hannah, Sophia and Eliza Mansfield. They appear to have been non-conformist at that time. Hannah married in 1826 Soho, Westminster, a Robert Edlin and their firstborn son was christened Robert Gayton Edlin.  Their second born son, Thomas Edward Edlin is my Gt-Gt-Grandfather.  I have been struggling to discover where the name "Gayton" derives;  in the online records it is variously deciphered as Gayton, Gaston, Guston, Gaydon, and even Clayton! Handwriting difficulties, obviously!  With very best regards, Cici