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Alex... can I suggest that you look at: Samuel Walker  b1812 Whitechapel in the 1851 census.  The entry for Christchurch St Saviour Southwark is in fact Samuel Willson plus wife Mary Ann and son Samuel.
(Household 165 10 Gravel Lane).

It was your note on Samuel b1849 which says Gravel lane which put me on the track. Where did u get that from - his birth cert?

I am also intersted where u got Samuel's (b1813) second Christian Name from as I have never seem it anywhere.

rgds gjr

Hi.... William Henry Tuffery Eden born 5th July 1833  is on of my 2xGGrandfathers. Was a gunner in he Royal Navy joined 2/6/1850. left the navy in 1872.
His children were born Portsmouth - Falmouth - Portsmouth & the last two in Southampton.
I have a copy of his Navy Pay Record from the National Archive. The 1871 census has him on board HMS Nymphe off of Zanzibar.

William Eden married Ann Tuffery 1833 was a mariner from Sunderland was lost with HMS Thais sunk en route from Halifax to Falmouth in 1834. The Thais was a Falmouth Packet.
I would like to see the earlier records.

rgds