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Thanks for all your replies.
William Flinders was born and baptised in Sneinton in 1768 and died there in 1850. It seems he spent his whole life there except to get married at St Mary's Nottingham.
Elizabeth Wright died in Sneinton in 1847.
They had ten kids:
Edward 1790-1856
George 1792-1838 (my ancestor)
Mary Ann 1794-1809
William 1796-1800
John 1799-1800
William 1801-1880
Benjamin 1803-1814
Elizabeth 1805-1806
Henry 1807-1877 (Henry married three times the first to Anne Hyde Parrot about whom I know nothing then twice in Lyon)
Alfred 1809-1881 (Alfred and Henry, both lace makers like their father, migrated to Lyon and Alfred married once).
Looking at the Thomas Wright and Mary Smith family I found the following baptisms carried out at the Castle Gate Independent Chapel:
Ichabod 1767
Elizabeth 1769
John 1770
Harriett 1771
Elizabeth 1772 (this is the Elizabeth who could have married William Flinders - but I have my doubts. On the marriage register for William and Elizabeth in 1790 he has a lovely signature and Elizabeth had a mark. I'm thinking that if she was from that prominent family she would most likely have been literate)
John Smith & Thomas (twins) 1773
George 1775
Not sure where that leaves me in my quest but thanks anyway for all your input
Bob