At impasse again!

[avm228]

Ah yes - I hadn't spotted Martha.

"P" is likely to mean she was privately baptised.

[millymcb]

If that 1840 larceny conviction WAS Philip Hill senior perhaps he got himself in trouble again and that is why he is not around with his family in later census. Might be worth a search of local papers to see if anything turns up. Also he may be with extended family in later census.

If the murder and suicide was Philip Junior not Philip Senior that still leaves Phillip Senior's death unaccounted for - and his burial. Finding this would be useful. there may be clues about extended family on the death certificate or burial plot.

Still lots of avenues to explore. Philip was not too common a name at that time which could help.

Milly