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Many thanks to your responses re Amelia Diaper It is such an unusual surname that you would think there was a connection between Suffolk and Hampshire, especially since Amelia's father was a mariner, I have a copy of his Mates Certificate, and that they settled in Southampton in late 1850s where she married her husband John Gookey [another unusual name].
I think the William refered to in the second post is probably the right one and I did have a note of him but not all the children - so thanks for that. it gets me back a little further.
It doesn't help when the would is mis-read as Draper or similar.
And the origins of the name is interesting as it is possibly Flemmish in origin from Ypres in Belgium and angliscised over the years De Ypres, becoming D'ipers, eventually Diapers.