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And I forgot to say many many thanks for your digging around on my behalf. I would have said so sooner but I got so excited by the new discoveries I got side tracked.

That's okay -- the conversation was still ongoing and I don't mind it running its course before the formalities are observed. You're welcome. ;)


The naval hospital entry was in the 1871 census, taken from Ancestry. I had had a look at Loudwater (an obvious mistranscription at Ancestry there) and seen the proximity, so it's a reasonable connection -- not necessarily making him your person, of course!


There's this as the closest match in 1861:

Name: James Newton
Age: 5
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1856
Relation: Son
Father's Name: James
Where born: Cholesbury, Buckinghamshire, England

Civil Parish: Cholesbury

James Newton 35 - born Cholesbury
David Newton 77
Sophia Newton 7
James Newton 5
David Newton 3
Susannah Pierce 21


If that should turn out to be him, you'd be in luck - a grandfather in the household.

No point in pursuing it until you have the father's name on the marriage cert though!

Again many many thanks to you and Eric. I will pursue all these lines of enquiry after crimbo and come back with any further enquiries.

Must go now, have to cook dinner for other half who is due in from work any minute now !!!

XmasEvie Beavie (and anyone else!!)

I now have the marriage certificate as mentioned above. It shows that William James Newton aged 64 years, a widower - father John Newton (Labourer) married Alice Warren aged 53 years, a widow - father John Canter or Cantor (Labourer).

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