You are probably right with the Silk Weavers but more research is needed. Did Edward if Spitalfields suffer through it all.
I read the document briefly but will have to go back through it again later.
I would just like to find Joseph son of Robert William after 1860. He must have gone oversees but the records for that period are lost.
I might find if he's gone to Oz from a contact there but I don't have one in America.
P.M