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Some years ago I spent many hours looking at correspondence files for the Narberth Board held at the National Archives at Kew, London. Amongst much stuff of local interest I came across the following that perhaps relates to your family. These are my notes:

TNA ref. MH 12/16655  http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C3291466
“1854
Letter from David Lewis in Kilgetty about the amount of relief he gets. His mother is a cripple and he has a small cottage with 1 cow on poor land. Can she get relief?
Later letter dated 17/7/1854 (doc ref #26828) from John Miles (clerk to Narberth Board) stating that the Guardians consider Lewis able to support his mother.”

A reminder of the tough times families lived through then and why Mary died at the Union. Her son couldn’t support after all by the looks of things.

Jon

If its of interest, I have extracts for Henry Jeffries from contemporary trade directories and poll books.

Moreover, based on a parish map dating to 1818, he was occupying premises on the north side of the High Street. (This was/is in the Abbey parish in the centre of the city).

Jon

I can add some more to this from a transcript of the St Albans Corporation Freemen list.

In 1780 an Osborn Lattimore was made free on his father's copy. The father was Jeremiah, weaver.

Presumably the following is the relevant entry for the father in the same list:
1743: Jeremiah, victualler.

Jeremiah appears in the 1753 Land Tax schedule for Middle Ward, St Albans at 12s. He also appears in the St Peters parish poor rate assessment (PRA) in St Albans borough in 1760 & 1761.

As we don't have a complete run of the PRAs for all three main St Albans parishes, he might have slipped through the net before the next Jeremiah appears in 1780, again in St Peters parish.

As to Osborn Lattimore, one by his name appears in the 1801 Abbey parish PRA through until 1816, my last transcription.

Turning to poll books...presumably this is the same Osborn Lattimore as was made free in 1780 as he is entitled to vote:
1807: labourer, residence St Albans
1812: ditto
1818: ditto
1821: ditto
1831 - not listed - but a Jeremiah Lattimore, carpenter, St Albans is listed

As to trade directories...none listed from the right time but there is an Osborn Lattimore in Pigot's of 1839, a shopkeeper and dealer in sundries, residence George St.

Militia lists: I had a look here too and there's an entry for a Jeremiah Lattimore, wheeler, living in St Peters ward in 1785. The presence of "aged" against the entry indicates he is too old to go into the draw but this could still be your man. But why doesn't he appear in the earlier lists - which we have going back for most years to 1758? Was he living outside the town? The same question applies to Osborn.

Judging from the data you provided in your first email, the entries for Jeremiah and Osborn in the Freemen list and poll books appear to correlate nicely. The rest of my material is less certain.

Jon

Not sure this helps but the only James baptised in Reynoldston (now Reynalton) around this time was John James, son of Henry and Mary, 6 Aug 1809. The parents marry in Loveston 10 March 1809.

However, there is a baptism in the neighbouring parish of Loveston, 6 November 1808 for Henry James, son of Henry James (no mother's name mentioned). The father's residence is shown as Begelly. Somewhat bizarrely Findmypast.com have indexed this baptism under Begelly parish church, not Loveston. Why a Begelly resident would walk 2 miles or so across poor paths or longer by poor roads is now lost in time.

Jon