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    If it helps a "steveadore" is a docker. from the...

    If it helps a "steveadore" is a docker. from the dictionary of old trades
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    No. Thanks I'll check that out

    No. Thanks I'll check that out
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    Here https://www.irishgenealogy.ie/en/ Irish...

    Here
    https://www.irishgenealogy.ie/en/
    Irish genealogy - it is a free site. I just put in her name and the general year of her birth but I didn't put in Dublin as a location on my second search...
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    Found her. bap.11 May 1877 Alice Frances...

    Found her.
    bap.11 May 1877
    Alice Frances Jackson
    15 Hendrick St, Dublin
    F. Thomas Jackson
    M. Ellen Jackson
    born 7 Jan 1877
    She was baptised at Arbour Hill Barracks
    which suggests a military...
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    Irish genealogy https://www.irishgenealogy.ie/en/...

    Irish genealogy
    https://www.irishgenealogy.ie/en/
    has a few Alice Jacksons including an Alice Frances (though she was baptised later in 1897) may be worth a look and you can order certificates...
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    Also got the marriage cert for William Henry...

    Also got the marriage cert for William Henry Garbett and Emma Florence Turner, showing her father as Enoch Turner (deceased), ALSO Joseph Turner and NELLIE Turner are witnesses. With a bit of hunting...
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    I got Frank's death and birth certificate today....

    I got Frank's death and birth certificate today. The former names Jacqueline Leonie Garbett as his widow and the latter gives his father as William Henry Garbett, beer house keeper of the Five Ways...
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    interesting but I am unsure if it is related as...

    interesting but I am unsure if it is related as Jacqueline died in Leiston Suffolk in 2012. Ancestry have a directory entry 1959 - 1962 of a F A Garbett running "The Falcon" in Felixstowe which might...
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    Interesting but I don't think there is a...

    Interesting but I don't think there is a connection. Jacqueline Garbett died in Suffolk in 2012. I am unsure of the exact date but I do remember my wife telling me that she had died (my wife can't...
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    Imagine how my wife felt when they asked to do a...

    Imagine how my wife felt when they asked to do a family tree at school!! :-)
    She said it ended up looking like a plate of spagetti!

    Good point about naturalisation. I hadn't thought of that.
    I...
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    I think those are worth chasing up. My...

    I think those are worth chasing up. My mother-in-law says that Frank came from the Midlands (though she doesn't know where). However she married a John Cleveland who was related to Frank via marriage...
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    Frank Garbett & Jacqueline Kestremond

    I am trying to find details for these two and wondered if anyone had any clues?
    What I know is, according to my mother-in-law, her half sister Jacqueline the daughter of (Charles?) Kestremond and...
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    I gained the following information from a user...

    I gained the following information from a user called "Zero the hero" on Rootschat
    "Boswell describes Samuel Stanton thus in 1776, when he and Dr Johnson took a glass of wine with him at Litchfield...
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    There are four old Stanton families connected...

    There are four old Stanton families connected with Staffordshire that I know of..
    1. The Stantons of the Black country (West Bromwich, Walsall, Tipton, Warwick, etc) who became involved in the legal...
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    Have emailed you :-)

    Have emailed you :-)
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    What was Henry Jacksons occupation? I ask as...

    What was Henry Jacksons occupation? I ask as around that time farmers from England were recruited as "caretakers" for farms in Ireland from which their tenants had been evicted. This was due to the...
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    Sounds like fun. I think it is great that family...

    Sounds like fun. I think it is great that family history has inspired your writing. I myself write and perform songs inspired by incidents in my family history.
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    Thank you all for those replies :-) 1. I have...

    Thank you all for those replies :-)
    1. I have half discounted the Eccleshall Ousmans as they seem to crop up on later census records, but I haven't entirely rulled out a link
    2. The burial of...
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    Ousman in Stoke-on-Trent

    My GGGrandfather Henry Smith married Eliza Ousman in 1839. I have them on the 1841 census living with her family at Ridgeway's Mill, Shelton. Her parents were William Ousman (flint miller) and Sarah...
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    That seems to be them Henry was often referred to...

    That seems to be them Henry was often referred to as Rowland.
    It seems to be shaping up into quite a well travelled family.
    I just wonder what the Staffordshire connection is. If Sarah Lowe was...
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    family search gives us Henry Marsden 08 Dec...

    family search gives us
    Henry Marsden 08 Dec 1825 Leeds, Yorks. parents Jno Marsden & Mary Marsden
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    Hmmm. So we have a contemporary account that...

    Hmmm.
    So we have a contemporary account that places Sarah and her mother in Stoke-on-Trent when she was young. But actually gives us no information regarding whether either or both of them were...
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    trouble is there are Sarah Lowe's of about the...

    trouble is there are Sarah Lowe's of about the right age in both London and Staffordshire
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    An interesting conundrum. The birth date on the...

    An interesting conundrum. The birth date on the census could have been rounded to 10 as a lot were. But born in county is tricky unless her mother was Staffs born and moved to London. Wedgwood...
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    Thought i answered this one this morning but my...

    Thought i answered this one this morning but my post appears to have vanished.
    Anyway....
    It is interesting that Sarah birth is given as London as the story of how Sarah and Henry met was covered...
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