Hello Eric and Lesley, I have now found all the Higham children on the Cheshire Parish Registers List, and have als received the death certificate for Betty wife of Thomas, their address is given as 'Lark Hill' and the cause of death was 'appoplexy' which I suppose could have been high blood pressure as their last child was Susannah born 1836/37 and that could have caused her to be ill. I have also heard from the Register Office at Warrington, and from their information, the request that I made for Thomas' death certificate didn't match their records, so back to square one on that at the moment. I am now wondering that as Thomas was a Cordwainer/Shoemaker, would there be any factories employing people working in that industry in the Larkhill/Cheadle/Stockport area or would he work from home. Once again my thanks to you and everyone who replied to my query, I have no doubt that I shall be asking for more help in the future Regards Lilian .