Good evening, list! A big 'Thank you' to everyone who made suggestions about Stephen, a Dorset Ag. Lab, who went to Norfolk and there wooed, married and had a daughter in the 1850s. There were some interesting remarks, but nothing which could pin down the reasons for his making so long (and arduous) a trip in the middle of the 19th century. He doesn't seem to have been in the army, there was no railway activity in Banningham at that time and nothing has suggested that he might have been sent as a representative of his Dorset employer. There is one thing which might have a slight bearing — someone offered that his wife might have been in service in the area of Hinton Martell. She, (Ann ELDEN) was a cook in Sussex in 1851, but I haven't been able to connect her with Dorset. Iain, in Brampton, Cumbria.