Truly amazing!
I have just returned to find all this extra information. Thank you for your help in tring to find the Highmore link in this Dean family.
It now seems apparent that Francis Highmore Dean is linked to the "southern" branch of the Highmore family.
On the IGI, I have just found a possible link with the Highmore and Sherring family that we have been following. An Edward Sherring married a Mary Highmore in Milborn Port (?) in Somerset/Dorset 19 Feb 1801. Not proof I know, but it is food for thought.
I need now to take stock of all this and try to put the information in some sequence for myself. Will get back to you all once I have done that.
Cando, Raylen, Judy and Sue - I really appreciate your kind help.
Elsie