I'll join in the fun and hope for a breakthrough! Francis POTTER was a fellmonger in Surrey Street in Croydon. He appears on the 1811 Croydon census there in a family with 2 males and 2 females and I have found the baptisms of 2 children at St John's, Croydon in 1808 (William) and 1810 (Jane). I therefore think he would have married around 1807. Further children were baptised between then and 1833. Francis died in 1838 (I have the certificate) at Overton's Yard (off Surrey Street, possibly also known as Fellmonger's Yard) [Nivard - Henry Overton the brewer is in Surrey Street in 1841 and is presumably the person the yard is named after], and was buried at St John's. His age at death indicates a birth date of 1777 or 1778. His wife Mary Ann seems to have continued the business with her sons, and is listed in the 1841, 1851 and 1861 censuses before her death in 1861. Her ages in the census are consistent with a birth in 1789 or 1790, and her birthplace is given in 1851 as Chichester, Sussex and in 1861 as Croydon. The 1841 census records her as born in Surrey, but the specific entry of Chichester in 1851 makes me think this is more likely. I've checked the IGI, the Surrey Marriage Index and Pallot's for their marriage without success. There is a possible marriage in the London records on Ancestry for Francis Banks Potter and Mary Ann Coulson at St Mary Newington in 1807, but I've no reason to connect this with the family and no other record of the name Banks. I've also looked for baptsims for Francis in Croydon without success, and for Mary Ann in the Chichester transcripts at the Society of Genealogists. There are Potters in both locations going back to the sixteenth century. Can anyone suggest further lines of enquiry (Francis' will is no help), or better still connect with their own research? Bob Brock