« Reply #25 on: Monday 20 June 11 00:31 BST (UK) »
Oh, wow, thank you! That is definitely my Rachel Perks and John Neal. Later (1864) she married Charles Hunt. That is one of the knots that took me a little while to see through.
An interesting point is that Rachel's father being a steel toy maker....... they apparently were not children's toys as we know toys to be but small items like snuff boxes and other little pocket items that were often gilt or engraved.
Philip
Northumberland; Johnson, Johnston, Dodds, Rutherford, Gray, Kennedy, Wilson, Sanderson, Davidson and other Border Marauders as they are discovered on this journey.
Berkshire; Knight, Bristor, Sharpe, Sharp, Ashley.
Suffolk / Essex; Perce, Pearce, Pearse, Pierce, Hayes.
Midlands; Hodgetts, Parker, Easthope.