Ann
thanks fro your reply. i'll try as you suggest.
My wife's gggg" whatever "was William Cleaver. He married in England in 1770 and, I think was "posted" to Fortwilliam,where when his children were born in the late 1780s.(I have copies of their baptism records from Kilmallie Church. In those, he was listed as Storekkeper.
thanks
john