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If you have been as thorough as you can be with the paper trail, have you come across evidence that links your matches' ancestors with your grandfather's cousins?

 People who change their names to start a new life often stick with their real date and place of birth, for example.  Do you have anything like that?

Sometimes the new name bears some relation to the original name - same initials; using a middle name as a first name; using a mother's maiden name, or other family name from a previous generation.

I think if the matches are as close as 2nd cousin, they are definitely related to your mother.  If someone believes you are wrong, they are free to do so of course, but how do they account for the obvious relationship?  By which I am not suggesting that you should challenge them, but if they can't /don't present an alternative, plausible explanation to the one you have found, there is no good reason to accept that they are right.

If you check the first few years in the GRO index:

https://www.gro.gov.uk/gro/content/certificates/indexes_search.asp

you will see that there are Price births registered in Warminster district both with mother's maiden name Sly, and with Doddimead.

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Thank you AntonyMMM.  Do you know if there are plans to include missed pages at some later date, or
whether the GRO are keeping a tally of reported missing entries?

  thank you BushInn1746. It is a long business deciding which William, John or Thomas Thomas belongs to which family in Aberystwyth, especially as they tend to be a bit vague about ages in census records (if they show up at all, often being away at sea) and I don't think I have sorted them all out yet! 

Thank you so much, BushInn1746 and hanes teulu!  Something to keep me busy for a while.  It doesn't immediately look as though anyone in my family was master of the Chilena - their name was Thomas - although several of them were master mariners from Aberystwyth.

I wonder whether someone among them owned shares in it at some point, as that at least seems a possibility, going by the auction advertised in the piece  BushInn1746 found. My Ggrandmother apparently had said that they owned the ship in the painting, but then she was known for not letting a good story be spoiled by the facts.

Interesting to learn that it was an iron ship; for no good reason I had always assumed that it was timber.

At present, I don't know that either Captain James Davies or Captain Edward Humphreys are relatives, but of course they might turn out to be.

Many thanks, your good work is very much appreciated.