Dear Listers, This is Part Six of how my brick wall fell recently. So my WFG was still in the Royal Navy in 1862. He was on HMS James Watt. Now, British censuses were taken on ships at sea, as well as land-based addresses. A search of the 1861 census reveals Francis GOODHEW as a Lamp Trimmer on the James Watt, aged 21. It adds up! I more recently engaged a professional researcher in London to search the National Archive for FG's naval record. Some of these admiralty documents are now available online, but the range of years over which FG served have not been digitized yet. ADM139 showed FG was signed up on 18 Nov 1854, born Hoo, Kent and birth date 1 Mar 1840. But we know he fibbed about that. He was 14 years old and taken on HMS Waterloo as a Boy, 2nd Class. It was well worth the $56AUD to get the two pieces of A3 paper to prove it. In the previous episode we found that FG was discharged from HMS James Watt in Jun 1862. His Merchant Navy career began soon after, when he joined the Sarah Newman in the Port of London in Nov 1862. We also now know that he deserted that ship in Newcastle Harbour before March 1863. This FG and my WFG are one and the same. Did he add the forename 'William' to weakly disguise his true identity? We may never know. But I would like to find more about his work on Newcastle Tug Service (between 1863 and 1866). While on the subject of forenames: it was common in those days to name the first born son after his paternal grandfather and the first born daughter after her maternal grandmother. It is not proof, but it adds further evidence to confirm this discovery, that WFG and Anne followed this practice to the tee. Their first born of twelve children was a boy and his name was George William, after his grandfather and father. The second was a daughter and she was Sarah Anne, after the Morgan side of our family. Incidentally, I was able to strengthen my knowledge of WFG's origins and to extend my tree branch two more generations, with the aid of Parish Records in Kent. Tune in for that in the final episode ... Ron Goodhew, Adamstown.