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Hi Annette! What you say makes perfect sense. I was given the information some years ago by an uncle who received the information from a cousin who had allegedly employed the services of a genealogist. This would have been back in the days of huge ledgers and not so easy as today where you can try out all manner of spellings at a click. I guess I'm guilty of being lazy and not checking it out myself! Thank you for opening my eyes to what was obvious all along 🤗

Hi! Thank you for the newspaper articles. I found W E Elliston on Land Tax records in 1865 and 1866 living in Castle Street, City of London which my Victorian map tells me ran parallel with Fetter Lane. Also this may be him in 1861 living with Arthur Lawson & family at 39 Lorrimore Street, St Mary Newington, Lambeth. No occupation is listed for him and says he's unmarried, but Ann had died by then and I've yet to find a marriage for them anyway! Says he was born 1804 at Lavenham.

Hi!  Apologies for delayed reply.  I have seen the Freedom of the City Papers for our ancestor but would be interested in the newspaper articles.  I am aware of W E Elliston's time at Horseshoe & Magpie and Engineers Arms. I haven't actually got his death certificate but when he died in 1879 his age was 76 (making him born 1803) and recorded at West Ham which Stratford would have come under. Apart from the children listed in the 1851 census I found a birth in June Qtr 1853 of Frederick William Elliston (mothers maiden name Lock, Elliston spelt erroneously as Elleston) Poor Frederick died in the same Quarter and buried in Fetter Lane Ground. I am descended from William Edward Lion Elliston born 1847 who had an adult baptism in 1884 as Robert William Lyon Elliston.  Seems you are descended from his brother Charles Edward Elliston.  I am curious as to why he began putting himself down as British Subject born Spain!

Hi, Thanks for your interest. He is the chap who died in London 1852. He doesn't appear in any census, but from his seaman records and those in the seamans hospital, Plymouth is always given as his birth place☺

Thank you everyone for supplying information, which I can now pursue further.  Apologies for my delayed response to you all - been one of those weeks' and I've not had a chance before now to go online.  Much appreciated.