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The head of the Plaster figure making company who employed him in Leather Lane, Holborn, London was one Vicenzo Marchetti from from Tiglio. He pretty much stayed there all his working life after his travels around England and settling down.

Steve,
 bit of a long shot here, but I am trying to trace great great grandfather Antonio Bertolini - born in the Lucca region of Tuscany around 1805/1806. As a young man he became a plaster figure maker and took off to England - probably in the 1820's. He was in Hull, Norwich, where he got married and then in Holborn in London, where he lived to the grand old age of 80, passing away in 1885. I have all the England information - it's just the Italian part that I'm missing. There's some background information to be found here - https://www.npg.org.uk/research/programmes/plaster-figure-makers-history.php . Grateful if you can shed some light on this but it's looking like a needle in a haystack to me. Thanks!

Daughter Jane is called Jane Boyes Crosby. Guess on my part but seemed common practice around then to give firstborn the same middle name as mother's maiden name.

I've got all the information I need after 1841. It's the pre-1841 stuff I'm after. I know she was married to a Mariner called Richard Crosby and they had a daughter born in Hamburg in in 1827. By 1841 she was a Charwoman and 14 year old Jane is in service at a Hull Dental Surgeon's house.

With regards to Anthony Wheat/Bertholini - the plot thickens. Did I mention that his future wife Jane Crosby was born in Hamburg. Her father Richard Crosby was a mariner

Unfortunately just as Anthony Wheat/Bertholini  is going to sea, in 1841 Jane Crosby is a 14 year old servant in a dentists house in Hull