Oh yes do join us Nesta - the more the merrier!
Unfortunately, I haven't got time at the moment to do this search justice, but go ahead Deb please and I will catch up next week. Of course I will dip in and out of the thread.
One thing in particular that has always bugged me was being unable to locate Matthew Ward in the 1851 census .... or perhaps a death?
After re-reading the diary and the threads we might need to get together a list of what we still need to find, otherwise we might find ourselves looking for something that has already been found .... but on the other hand, it might be worthwhile to go over some of the searches we tried before but did not have any luck with.
Deb and anyone else who is interested .... do you think I should start a new thread rather than tacking the new search on the end of Part 9?