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I was interested to read MKR's post. I obtained the will from London Metropolitan Archives. Are you within reach of there? They hold copies of the wills for Godalming, I am not sure whether or not copies are available elsewhere. Please let me know if you have any problems.

I received a lot of interesting information a couple of years ago, including a Twycross tree (which includes our John Twycross) going back to a similar date to your own, from someone called Christopher. You may already know this person. If you are interested, let me know and I can ask him whether or not he is interested in sharing trees at this time.

Which child of John Twycross are you descended from? I would be very interested to hear any  information that you may have about John and the wider family.

Thanks!   

Thanks very much indeed for your help. It has been fascinating to hear all the details you have given about James and the town. I shall certainly try and visit Wokingham and the house in the near future and in the meantime I will try and orientate myself via the information which you have very kindly given in your previous postings. You mentioned in one of them that James was mayor in 1858. Do you have any more details about this?

Some of the place names are quite hard to read, so it may be a difficult task!
In reverse order (leaving out the numbers with no names next to them) -

70 and 69 are both Martins Lane, 68 is Lucas's Hospital, 65 is Benhams Buildings, 54 is Prospect Place, 48 looks like Prospict Place, James is 46, there is an uninhabited building between 46 and 45, 44 is hard to read but could be ?Beulam or ?Bewlany Houses, 43 is the gasworks, 32 looks like Tangleys Farm, 26 could be ?Hagril Farm, 24 is ?Woodcray or ?Hoodcray Farm, and 11 is ?Birchin Inams or ?Birkin Israms Farm. How can I find out where the enumerators were to walk? 

Thanks for all the interesting information. I have found a James Twycross on the 1851 census. It states that he was born in Godalming, Surrey and was living in 1851 in Wokingham. It describes him as a tanner and wool stapler master employing 43 persons in trade, and gives his age as 55. Regarding the address, it just gives the number 46 - I have looked back to number 1, but no street name is given - the page is just headed with 'Wokingham (part of)'.

Looking back at previous entries in this thread, it appears that the three children didn't go to Australia until 1853, so he presumably wouldn't have been described as a wool importer until then, unless he was already importing from anywhere else?

I found census entries for 1851 and 1861 which appear to relate to the children -

For 1851 there is an entry giving a James Twycross (aged 25) and Ann Twycross (aged 28). James is described as a wool stapler (if I remember correctly it said that he employed approximately 30 men) and they are both listed as being born in Wokingham. They are both listed as being unmarried.

 The entry for 1861 gives a James Twycross aged 37 as a visitor, with his profession given as an Australian merchant. Fortunately it is possible to identify the two as the same person, as some people are listed as visitors in the 1851 census, who are in turn given as James's hosts in the 1861 census - presumably he had returned from Australia to stay with them.