« Reply #3 on: Saturday 12 February 05 21:55 GMT (UK) »
Hi cfmshrops
don't know if this is of any relevance, but this Thomas Kearns is listed in Whites History of Staffs 1851 (page 769) in the Alton directory:
'Kearns Thos plumber, painter &c'
Aitch

RATCLIFFE, BARLOW, BERESFORD, BLOOR, BYATT, DAKIN, KENT, LEES, MORTON, NORCLIFFE, OAKS, OSBORNE, PARKS, RICHARDSON, ROBINSON, SORTON, WETTON, WARRINGTON, WATTS, WOOD, WOLVERSCROFT (all from the Staffordshire Moorlands) - and specific interest in anyone who at any time lived in or around the village of ALTON