Kathy Henry was christened to Joseph & Jane DAWSON on the 6th Jan 1839 at St Paul's, Bedford - his brothers & sister were also christened there. See: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~hughwallis/IGIBatchNumbers/CountyBedford.htm#B Joseph Dawson is listed on-line in the Robson's Commercial Directory of 1839 for the Bull Inn, Silver Street, Bedford. See: http://www.historicaldirectories.org/hd/index.asp Joseph's death is registered in Bedford in the Dec quarter of 1840...and in 1844 [19th May] his widow, Jane DAWSON, marries a man called Charles WHEELER at St Paul's. Their daughter, Mary Jane DAWSON [Henry's sister], married a man called George MARDLIN in 1856 [24th Jan] in Leighton Buzzard...I dont know what happens with Mary Jane DAWSON & George MARDLIN - but by 1881 census her mother Jane WHEELER [formerly DAWSON] is an old lady of 84 in Turvey caring for her two grandchildren [Eliza MARDLIN, aged12 & Annie MARDLIN, aged 8]. Jane was born in Kimbolton - Huntingdonshire according to the 1881 census & she died aged 86 [death was registered in Dec quarter of 1882]. By the time of the 1891 census the two MARDLIN girls are at the Turvey post office & grocers along with older sister Jane MARDLIN [aged 31] who is the post mistress...Eliza is the telegraph clerk & Annie is a teacher. It may worth asking the archivist about celebrations for Victoria's Coronation and ask if there is a surviving Will for Joseph as it wont be on their search site yet: http://blars.adlibsoft.com/beginner/indnms.html The Bull Inn in Silver Street is long gone [pulled down in 1928] but there is a photo of it in Richard Wildman's Bedford Past & Present, taken c 1910 and it has, according to the big signs on the walls: 'GOOD STABLING LOOSE BOXES' 'Good Accomodation for Cyclists' 'WINES & SPIRITS'. cathy