Thanks Alan...
I am new to genealogy working with a cousin of mine who has been researching for 15 or so years
I do have a bit of wrong info I believe, which sent me on a wild goose chase, as far as I know he was born in 1809, I am not sure where, he died here in Australia in 1876..
The information I had that I think is wrong is that his Father was John Thomas Mattingley also, born in 1788,whose father was James Mattingley and his mother was Sarah Pope..but information I have found is that their son John died in 1798 when he was just 10 years old..

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John Thomas Mattingley Born 1809 is elusive ...my cousin has not been able to locate his parents.