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Hi,

Just looking at that Familysearch record they talk about St Mary's Portsea.  There is a parish of St Mary's in Portsea but not in Wiltshire in Hampshire.  You might want to post to the Hampshire board to see if someone can do a look up of parish records in St Mary's Portsea for a christening on the 2 Sep 1821 for your John Henry Bachelor to see if the submitter just got the county wrong.

Good luck.

Jenny

If he died in Queensland - his death certificate would show how many years in Australia - which would help work out when he arrived.  If you don't have the certificate maybe someone can do a look up for you.

http://www.archives.qld.gov.au/research/index/immigration.asp#immigrationindexes  is the Qld lists for - 1848 - 1884.

Jenny.

You can get parish records prior to 1837 for baptisms, marriages and burials.

Don't know if it helps but Parloc (Parish locator) has two Hadleigh's and no Hadley.  The Hadleigh's are in Essex and Suffolk.

It may not help if the person reporting the death was not accurate.  I had one death certificate say county Durham but the marriage certificate said County Down - two totally different countries.  They may have misheard the details or just given the town where they first knew they lived.

There is a Halam, Halloughton, Harworth, Hawksworth, Hawton, Hayton, Headon, Hickling. Hockerton, Holme, Hoveringham, Hucknall in Nottingham.

You could try http://www.nottsfhs.org.uk/ and see if they could do a search of the baptisms for you or there maybe someone on the Nottingham board who could do the lookup - when you post give them all the information you have i.e marriage, census's and death info as then they can extend what you know.

You probably already know this but the 1841 census entry for them in Essex says that John, Matilda (Mary?) and James were not of that county, Charles however was.

The 1851 says Nottingham B.L (?) for John and Mary - I don't know what the B. L. stands for or even if that is the correct reading of the letters but maybe someone else can help.

I'd try Nottingham for the marriage and for a baptism for James.

Jenny

Thanks for looking Bryant.  I will be more careful with my i's and e's next time.

The family you have found in 1841 is the one I am looking for the daughters from in 1851. 

Ann (d 1847), Christopher (d 1850) and Maria (d 1849)  died before 1851.  I know the girls were left an inheritance from their fathers will, I also suspect that Julia could have been in an institution at that time. 

Chrisotpher had sold the house in Oaken Codsall by 1850, and as Maria died in Cannock I suspect they also had a house there (they were fairly wealthy).

I have an unmarried Frances Wood in the 1881 census who could be my Fanny but I have no real way of proving it.

Fanny WOOD   Head   U   Female   66   Cannock, Stafford, England       

I was hoping that in 1851 they would not have separated or would be living with relatives but have had no real luck searching in either direction.  I have all their married siblings and their unmarried brother and they are not there.

I also now know that Elizabeth married in 1853 in Paris ... so they may have gone overseas following their fathers death.  I haven't tried to track her in Paris yet.

I will just need to keep searching.  My real curiosity is about what happened to them.  I know what happened to Julia she travelled and later got involved in funding the New Forest Shakers and her brother (CoE priest) ended up putting her in an institution for the rest of her life.  It would just be interesting to see what fate dealt the other two girls.

Thanks for the other family - they may be an indirect line but Christopher Wood only had a sister named Catherine who married a man named Morris so it would be relatively remote from the main line I am searching for.

Thanks again for looking at this after so much time.

Jenny

Tiffy,

Thanks for looking but this is completed.  I found the information through other sources.  I have updated the title of the post to say completed and am just waiting for a moderator to move it to completed look ups.

Jenny