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Thanks Jomit1
All most excellent observations.
Someone my cousin spoke to many decades ago, and who knew John George Robinson, thought he was from Australia but we dismissed that because of the...

Thanks Pam
Yes 1841, the joys of researching my American ancestry using census records and then switching to English ..
and yes John ... trying to see if this John could be my John George. If this...

Some years ago I purchased a copy of a birth certificate, and now I am re-investigating ...
Birth Certificate in Registration District of Newcastle Upon Tyne
1839 Birth in the Sub-district od Saint...

I am writing up nearly 50 years of research into my Duncan ancestry as "William Duncan, Chirurgeon, His Ancestors and His Descendants, Including Duncans of Seasyde, Lundie, & Camperdown".
I use Lyx...

Ships carrying German emigrants from mainland Europe to America in the 18th century had to call in at an English port before continuing to America. Were they also required to deposit a passenger list...

I have returned to this brick wall.
The good news is that I have found a male Robinson relative of the same generation as me - the earliest one still with living members- and who is willing to do a...

A well-known genealogical site has thrown up a hint.
In St Mary Redcliffe "in the county of Bristol" in 1828
Benjamin READMAN bachelor of this parish married Elizabeth Duckett spinster of this...

Eventually showed up index of Familysearch "England, Devon and Cornwall Marriages, 1660-1912" with image!
I was trawling through my posts looking for something else and I noticed that this question...

Thanks again grisel. I have turned up supporting evidence that Thomas Hedges the son of Joseph Hedges and Lydia Ralph may very well be the person I am after. The Grainger connection requires that...

How right you are grisel It is Thomas! Although as written it is open for transcription errors it does match Thomas the head of the household and Thomas the name of one of the sons. In fact I cannot...

Thanks grisel
I had Thomas Hedges buried in Braintree, in 1834, but had no idea about the circumstances. Wow.

I am looking at D/P 264/1/9 on the Essex Archives Online site. Judging from the observation that the signatures are in a different hand to the names in the body of the form leads me to conclude that...

Thank you one and all for your thoughts. Certainly plenty to work on with all your much appreciated suggestions. There must be something in the water in Essex as NONE of my Essex ancestral lines are...

Not sure if this is the right forum for this ...
I am puzzled by the following ...
In the parish records of St Michael the Archangel, Braintree, Essex [spelling in document retained]
Record No 33...

I have turned up another clue.
The 1851 Census for Braintree has Thomas Hedges (who married Rebecca Saward), born in Braintree, about 1818, as head of the house. Apart from his wife and children...

Thanks grisel. There appears to be some merit in your suggestion of the family moving from London to Essex as William Thomas Hedges, a weaver, married Rebecka Saward in St Leonard, Shoreditch on 30...

This is a brick wall I did not know I had until now. My great-grandmother, Alice Matilda Hedges, was baptised in Braintree, Essex. Her father William Hedges was born in Church Street, in the Parish...

grisel, I would like to read what you have been reading regarding brush makers. There is a William Walden, a brush maker, in High Street London Road in the 1841 census .... perhaps Daniel Wright was...

Thanks for the link grisel, and yes no wonder Daniel just wanted to get away from Glasgow where had lost so much.
With the help from you and jomot1 I ... make that WE.... have knocked down a rather...

It looks like this might be Mary Jean Tassie who married Daniel Wright
Parish records of Glasgow
1841 August
died 21 funeral 24 Mary Wright, pauper, town Hospital, consumption
And their daughter...

Right again, grisel
Parish records for Glasgow
December 1840
Wright- Daniel Wright Brush Maker in Glasgow and Mary Jean Tassie residing there married 31st December by Dr Duncan Macfarlane one of...

Parish records for Glasgow
August 1813
Wright- Daniel Wright brush maker & Agnes Foyer a law[ful] son Daniel bo[rn] 7th wit[nesses] William Buchanan & George Livingston

Looks like you were right...

Thanks grisel
Certainly some interesting things to follow up here. At this stage Daniel Wright and Agnes Foyer look promising - I will have to look at the original records.
Looks like quite a group...

Thanks again Jomot1. Your posts certainly add to the broader picture. I have to confess that I never thought of investigating witnesses, but of course there is a high possibility of their being...

My Potter brick wall has morphed into a Wright brick wall.
Eliza Potter's 1844 birth certificate gives her father as "Daniel Wright, brush maker"
I could not get traction on Daniel Wright brush...