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Please disregard part of the last entry by me.  Benjamin Cheater died in the same area as his mother was living in Essex in 12 Dec 1859 in Waltham Abbey, Essex, England.  While he did go to Dorset Jail on the 24 Jan 1833 it was just for 2 months and can be found in the 1841 Census there as Ben Cheater with an occupation of a Carpenter.  So what I said about going as a convict to Australia is incorrect.  I do believe when his step father (Stephen King) died in 1848 he went back to live with his mother and changed his surname to his mother's married surname William Sloper King in the 1851 Census as it has him as an occupation of Carpenter with the age and birth place matching him.  I found that he was a witness also to his Step brother William King who married Claretta Drake in St Andrew Holborn in 1851 he witnessed together again with his Step sister Eliza Jane Sloper King….

Thank You Heather….. :-*looks like you have the correct one I am looking for in Stephen Allen and Anna nee Sloper and two of their children………you are very kind to have followed that through for me………….If you have been following what jrc11 and I have been looking at last night very late I located who the marriage witness "Eliza Jane Sloper King" in the marriage of Stephen Henry King to Emily Jane King and it is her sister………………Emily Jane King married Stephen Henry Allen 16 May 1850 (totally out of the district in St Holborn) perhaps because she was having a baby Charles Henry Allen at the time……………Emily Jane King died in Oct 1850 in Pewsey and the child Charles Henry Allen went to live with Emily Jane King parents who are John King and Mary nee Sloper………………….now I found the marriages for John and Mary King ………………John King married Mary Cheater 6 May 1817 in Milton Lilbourne both were widows…………………Mary Cheater nee Sloper 1st marriage was to William Cheater on the 12 Nov 1808 in Market Lavington,……I have located the 1841 Census for John and Mary King……….Detail: Class: HO107; Piece: 1186; Book: 16; Civil Parish: Wilsford; County: Wiltshire; Enumeration District: 9; Page: 3; Line: 7; GSU roll: 464202………………….which has another son Charles King born about 1816 but I am not sure if he belongs to John King's first wife or Mary Sloper his second wife………….Mary Sloper is the sister of Anna that married Stephen Allen……………I would love to know who John Kings first wife was if you have anything on Charles born 1816 in Wilcot…………..Thank you very much again Heather and jrc11…………..

Hi jrc11……..The Eliza Jane Sloper King's mother is listed as Mary King and she was born in Bishop Cannings so could be perhaps the Mary Sloper first born to Silas and Mary who married the King………..In 1851 Census -Source Citation: Class: HO107; Piece: 1704; Folio: 48; Page: 37; GSU roll: 193612………………it has (1) Mary King, Widow, Head, b. 1781 (2) William Sloper King b. abt 1811 in East Lavington, Wiltshire "Son" (3) William King b.1820 in Swallowcliffe, Wiltshire (Son), (4) Eliza J S King b.1825 in Swallowcliffe, Wiltshire (dau), Charles H Allen b. 1850 Pewsey, Wiltshire (Grandson)……..This Charles H Allen seems to live with Eliza J S King in the 1861 & 1871 Census's………………It's been a while since I wrote in Rootschat - Can you tell me the shortcut for making a "New Sentence" line?

Hi jrc11…………..Interesting………..I went to look up the marriage in St Andrew, Holborn of the son Stephen Allen that married Emily Jane King and in has in the Witness's an Eliza Jane Sloper King signing as a witness………………sounds promising?………While I was just about to post this I can see that you posted Anna Sloper christening………. ……….was she actually Anna all along and it was a mistake to write Hannah Sloper as marrying Stephen Bolding as it should have been "Anna"